Intel Mac :: Lion With Severe Chronic Insomnia?
Mar 27, 2012
my Macbook running OSX Lion will NOT go to sleep or to that matter shutdown.Â
Symptoms:• When lid closed, macbook goes to sleep (I know this by the sound of the fan shutting down; and then after aprox. two seconds the fan starts working. When I open the lid the macbook just lights the screen and doesnt wake up as it never went to sleep.
• When shutting down the macbook truns of and then similarly the fan shuts down for like 1/2 a second and then boots up again; ie.restarts.The only way I am able to shut down my macbook is to press the shutdown button for 5 seconds, force shutdown.Â
System Information:Macbook 13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008Processor 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo | Memory 6 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 | Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB | Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50) What I have tried to do to solve this problem:• Shutting down• Removed and reinstalled battery• PRAM Reset• NVRAM Reset• SMC Reset• Checked Hardisk and fixed it
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