As I stated in my original post: I already tried that. Just for reference,
on the 13 inch white macbooks, you turn the power off, and press left
control, left shift, and power all at the same time. Then you power the
system back up. This helped a little, but not completely in my case,
however in my friend's case who had nearly the same issue, it fixed
everything. Kind a weird if you ask me.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Braille" <tptk...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Weird problem with Macbook Charger
You may want to reset ECU. Different models have different ways. Find the
instruction here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
Regards
On Jul 12, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
I have not had any issues with any of the MacBook chargers I own or have
used. If the charger is getting that hot you need to take that up with
APple asap!!! Continuing to use or speculate on the problem might bring
you more problems than you want. Hopefully it is under warranty.
On Jul 12, 2011, at 2:59 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
That is the strangest thing! So, I wonder if this is a known issue, and
what, if anything Apple plans to do to fix it. It's obvious then, that
it's not just my system.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Melanie Clouser"
<mclouser1...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Weird problem with Macbook Charger
I've had exactly the same issues with my 13" Mac Pro that I bought only 4
months ago. On 2 separate occasions the adapter wouldn't charge my Mac.
During the first incident, only 3 weeks after the purchase, I just kept
unplugging the adapter from the Mac and used different electrical
outlets. Eventually it just started charging. I've never noticed my
adapter getting really hot until sometime just last week. I plugged it
into another surge protector ... after having spilled water onto the
older surger protector ... and for some reason the adapater I'm using now
will cause the adapter to get real hot. My nephew also reports that his
adapter gets really, really hot ... like you said ... almost enough to
cause a significant burn to the skin. My nephew, however, has never
experienced the issue with the adapter not charging his unit.
On Jul 11, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
Hey guys.
We've got kind of a weird issue with my mid 2010 stocked white 13 inch
Macbook's charger. I wanted to see if any of you with any type of
Macbook, be it white or Pro, be it mid 2010 or not, have had this isue,
as it's somewhat concerning to me, especially, being I don't have the
extended Apple Care, and my 90 day complementary support is over. I'm
sorry, but right now, I cannot afford $250 for the added waranty. It's
going to be a booger enough just to pay the $29 for Lion, although yes,
that I am going to do no question. Anyway, not to veer off track,
basically, I've noticed something really weird. The strange thing is,
when Ben was down here visiting with me a few weeks ago, his macbook
charger did almost the same exact thing. Basicly, I'm noticing that my
transformer box on the charger is getting really really warm. I don't
just mean a little warm either. I mean, this sucker's cookin pretty
good. It's not hot enough to burn me by any means, but it's enough to
where when you touch it, you're going... parden the wording... "D***!
that's hot!" I don't smell any kind a wire burning or anything
electrical that would be off base. the magnetic end that goes in the
computer is not warm in the least. it's not cold, nor cool, it's just
room temperature like normal. It seems to be grabbing really really well
when I put it up to the charger port. I got to give it quite a little
tug to get it out. I'll admit, I lost the plastic cap that went over
the thing. I'd not really think that would matter too much though. I
know quite a few people who threw their cap away, and nothing bad has
ever happened. Anyway, the other weird thing is is the bottom of my
macbook several times while Ben was down here got really really warm.
Ben, you probably could explain to everyone better since you felt it, I
didn't. Would you say it was pretty warm? I don't think it was hot,
was it? I know it was more than normal according to what he said. I
know the fan was not being covered to the best of my knowledge. OK,
yes, my table cloth was a bit wrinkled up, but not bad. There is no even
remote way crums could a gotten inside this thing, nor liquid, as it's
not even close to anywhere I eat or drink. Not even remotely. The
biggest concern is there have been a few times when after being fully
charged, I'd leave it plugged in just so I'd not lose battery life, as I
figured, why unplug it if I'm not needing to move around with it?
Anyhow, sometimes the stupid thing when I have had it unplugged, charged
or not, and plug the charger back into the macbook, will insist on not
charging. Often times, it won't even see that the charger is plugged
in, period. Now, here's the really! bazaar part in all this. If I
unplug the charger from the end going into the macbook, then wait about
5 or 10 seconds, then put it back up to the port, and let the magnet
grab, and let go, then I wait about 30 seconds or so, and go look up in
the status bar at the battery, guess what! Yup? You gottit! It's
charging beautifully! Is that not just totally? weird? Here's another
weird thing, on Ben's when he was down here, we had his system on that
exact same power strip. His system saw that the AC power was plugged in,
but it wouldn't charge. I finally had to turn off the system and do a
PRam reset, and also while off, hold the left shift, left control and
power keys, and do an SMC reset. The PRam reset did no good, however
the SMC reset worked like a charm! Once rebooted his system charged
perfectly, and has ever since. I've also done an SMC reset on mine, but
in my case, it's still doing it on occasions. The weird thing is I've
tried on two different power strips, one of which has a surge protector
on it... that's the one I"m on now. It's only done this maybe one time
since on that strip. That one time the battery died completely
unknowingly, and when I came back to use the thing, I had a time trying
to get the thing to power back up. It finally did though. It's been
fine ever since. I will say since I've taken the charger out to this
strip/surge protector, it's not gotten warm in the least, nor has the
bottom of the macbook gotten even slightly warm. It's cool as a
cucumber. I've not noticed any odd behavior software wize at all. no
weird fan noise, no odd hd noise, no weird CD drive noise, nothing.
Quiet as can be. Perfectly normal. I'd do a hardware test, but for
one, I'm not sure how to exactly, and 2, I hear that isn't voiceover
friendly. I can't exactly send this thing back to Apple, nor can I
afford another charger. It's all I can do as said above to afford the
Lion upgrade, let alone the extended Apple plan forget about not
service coverage repairs. What do you all suggest we try, or do?
Has anyone else seen this? Why did it happen more oddly, with both my
macbook, and! when Ben's which both are stocked mid 2010 white 13
inches. This is just totally whackid!
Chris.
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