Obviously if you can run the laptop long enough to read temperature sensors you would know it was overheating. One frustrating thing is that has a procedure for replacing the heatsink paste but does not describe the symptoms that would lead you to execute that difficult procedure. I live in a dry climate which might aggravate heatsink paste drying out? Ive tried installing couple tools to reduce the heat but its still hovering around 6268 degrees under normal usage (light browsing, ssh, file management). Repaste the heatsink (ordering paste today). The performance was just like any other computer with the same specs, although the heat was really showing compared to running OSX.Boot from High Sierra installer USB stick: shutdown during boot.I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro with 2.26 GHz intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory, 320 GB of storage, and a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB Graphics card. Froze computer in freezer for one hour: shut down in same amount of time during boot Hey all I have been interested in moving to a linux os for a while now and want to pull the trigger now.256MB, Linux filesystem, Arch file system. Ran Apple Hardware Test: quick test and long test passed 128MB, Apple HFS+, This is required in order to make Arch dual boot with OSX.
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Replaced the hard drive with Windows bootable drive (boot menu then BSOD).Replaced the hard drive with another OSX drive: same symptoms.Recovery mode: shuts down a few seconds into the recovery.Safe mode: typically gets to login screen then shuts down shortly after.Verbose mode: shuts down during a different log message each time.Single user mode (runs for 30s or so before shutting down).Booting with each of the RAM sticks one at a time.The current symptom is a complete power down: it never powers back up to show a panic screen. I previously had the capacitor overheat issue but the symptom was different: under GPU load the laptop _rebooted_. Sent it to a shop to have the bad capacitor on the logic board replaced.I say it is not the OS because it crashes with two different OSX boot disks and during OSX recovery mode.