Hi, Jonas Petersson wrote: > Reset various NVRAM settings, the most obvious one is the boot chime > sound level. When suspend2 complains that the memory size doesn't match, > this typically helps.
Hm.. good to know. I'll try that. > Would you get as far as rEFIt? Most of the time, yes. The first try, when the system is completely cold seems to get quite far, often I can log in and proceed to doing some work. Especially, when putting the CPU on load, it tends to crash. Then, the machine seems to be in a half-cold/half-hot state, and it rarely comes to the login screen. When trying to turn it on again, immediately after a crash, it doesn't get to rEFIt. Giving it a break of half a minute already helps. Repeating that several times helps and as soon as the system runs stable for an hour, it's very unlikely to crash again. But hey, I can't fiddle for two hours per day, restarting it ten times until I get that far. > I had seemingly random shutdowns > occasionally (from seconds after power on to somewhat after logging into > X). Presumably this was due to overheating when fans got confused - it > is somewhat hard to tell when they do NOT work at all, but I was easy to > tell when they were locked at full speed. Interesting you got that behaviour. On my MacBook, the fans never turned on before the crashes. OTOH, they turn on perfectly well as soon as I put the CPU on load by compiling something. > Possibly. Once the ACPI stuff got confused I guess just about anything > can han happen. I get the feeling that a confused SMC can do similar > things - I tried putting a heartbeat on the keyboard backlight and it > froze my box solid after a few cycles... ups.. I'll try the NVRAM reset. > Well, lucky for me, MacOSX was also confused about various bits, such as > the battery - I have a feeling this made a full swap easier to get to. Hm.. yeah. I've already been complaining that my MacBook started up perfectly the last time. I can already see it coming: in the Apple Care Center it all runs perfectly well and those guys won't find anything wrong... Probably I shouldn't reset the NVRAM before trying to send it in ;-) Regards Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
