Uh-oh...

[semperfiona]

A few minutes ago, Rosa was playing an online game at buildabearville.com. She thought it would be easier with a "real" mouse instead of the touchpad, so I told her to take the computer to the table and plug in the wireless mouse.

She got over here, plugged in the computer, and said, "What happened!?!" The screen had gone black and it would not respond to the normal "wake up" method of any-random-keystroke. I told her to power cycle it, and once it restarted after the power cycle, I now have an X instead of a battery indicator.

I googled, and this does not bode well.

Comments

[kittentikka.livejournal.com]

Although I have never opened a MacBook, if you have or have access to competence for computers, it cannot be hard to do. I have gutted other laptops, and there are instructions online. It sounds like the best thing to do is find a utility to see if there are temperature problems and if so, replace or clean the heat sink. Although that sounds scary, it looks like the cheapest option. You can then cross that off the problem list.

I hope that thus helps, rather than being spam.

[bzero]

Erk. Hope your MacBook is OK. Have a good birthday this week!