I am having a problem with my laptop just starting to freeze-up and an alert screen telling me the computer needs to re-start by holding the power button down for 5 seconds. It does this every 2 hours or so.
Any ideas? re-starts fine but happens again later.
Is the hard drive on its way out? Laptop is only 18 months old.
Well there's 3 possibilities which comes to my head:
1. Least possible: You have a strange virus (it's least possible, because almost no one makes viruses for Mac). Try checking with some antivirus.
2. Possible: there's some error with drivers or OS (i know, MacOS X is much better than Windows, but no one is perfect, right?). Because MacOS = drivers +OS, try reinstalling it.
3. Most possible: Something is wrong with your hardware. And I think with your cooler. In that case this explains, why you're asked to restart - the system tries to prevent overheating.
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its a Macbook 2Ghz Intel Core 2 duo running OSX 10.5.5
what exact model is this? Macbook, airbook? And have you changed any original parts of it?
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