Honestly, though, take it back in to Apple and ask them to run a few loops of ASD OS. Check them out and educate yourself on the cost:performance ratio for each model. Whether or not it resolves your issue is anyone's guess at this point.Īny SSD will do the job. An SSD, at the very least, will increase performance by a huge margin. Hard drive is definitely possible, but in my opinion, is fairly low on the list. If I were the guy who took your appointment, I'd be banking on either RAM or logic board as the culprit. Any other suggestions regarding SSDs for Macs?Īny additional information is much appreciated as well :)
#Mid 2010 macbook pro 13 logic board pro
If I do need to replace my Hard Drive with a SSD, are any SSDs compatible with a MacBook Pro ? For example, the Crucial MX100 512gb 2.5-inch SATA III? I gotta be honest, I've seen that particular SSD model thrown around many times before, and so that's what I was planning to buy in case I needed to replace my Hard Drive, but I'm not sure what the pros/cons are, if any. If it is the Hard Drive that's the problem, and taking into consideration the age of my MacBook Pro (4.5 years), would it be wise to replace the Hard Drive with maybe a Solid State Drive? Maybe just get a new laptop? Any other solutions similar to that? So now, I come to you guys with a few questions:ĭo you guys think it's the Hard Drive that might be causing the problems I'm experiencing (spontaneous restarts, even when the computer itself hasn't been used for longer than 5 minutes)? I haven't gone back, and I haven't bought any replacement Hard Drive for it. If that didn't work (which it didn't), then the only other option the Apple tech thought was a reasonable solution was to replace the Hard Drive. I've learned that these are called Kernel Panics and I've taken it to the Apple Store only to learn that I should wipe my computer clean and basically start over.
TLDR: I have a 2010 Macbook Pro that has been restarting itself spontaneously, no matter how long I've been on it for the day (sometimes 5 min, sometimes a good couple of hours).
Yes, the problem continued after that, and I've been wanting to take it back and see what they say, but I decided to write this post and get some different opinions/perspectives from you guys and maybe some other questions answered: However, he told me to try out my computer after I finished setting everything back up, and if the problem persisted, then he would be almost 100% sure it was actually the Hard Drive itself that was damaged ("since it's been spinning for 4 years" is what I remember him saying). He also advised me to actually start over and only drag the programs/files that I really need, that way whatever file that might have been corrupt, stays on the External Hard Drive and that could fix the problem. I explained my situation to the tech that was helping me out, and from what I understood, he basically said that it could be a problem with a file/application that I might have downloaded, and so after explaining to me a little more, we decided to completely wipe my computer clean, essentially starting over from scratch (yes, I backed everything up on Time Machine beforehand as well). I did, however, do a little bit of research beforehand and found out this was called a Kernel panic (don't know if I'm right or not). I decided to finally take it to the Apple store in January, hesitantly, hoping they wouldn't charge me, and they didn't. Like I mentioned before, this has been going on ever since. About five minutes later, the same thing happened, and so instead of starting the process over and making so much noise, I decided to just shut down my computer and take hand-written notes. I didn't pay too much attention to the problem, and so I kept taking notes. I clicked Open and my notes came back up, after my computer finished loading, with only one or two words missing from what I had originally typed. After typing in my password, a window popped up asking if I wanted to reopen my windows/applications to how they were before it restarted itself, and it had two options: Open and Cancel. After pressing the space bar, it would load up normally with the Apple logo and what not. When the screen came back on, instead of the usual Apple logo/gray background, some text popped up in various languages, basically saying that the computer had problems and that it had to restart itself, and to press the space bar to continue.
I was taking a summer class, and while taking notes, my computer just decided to shut down on me/restart itself. It's been performing well these past 4-5 years, until recently (about 6 months ago? ~Summer 2014). So I bought my computer in the summer of 2010, brand new from the Apple store.
Let me preface this by saying I'm a bit of a noob, hence the post, and I need some help/suggestions on what I should do.
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