Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update to End Santa Rosa MacBook Pro Overheating Issue?

Posted on 16 September 2008 in Technology | View Comments

Apple has released Mac OS X Update 10.5.5 which is 138mb and said to patch 30+ issues, making it the biggest update since May of this year.

On the official Apple website, it says,

Includes extensive graphics enhancements.

Max just informed me that there was a page located here that said this firmware update would fix the overheating issues with my Santa Rosa MacBook Pro. How a software update can fix a hardware glitch is beyond me, but did you notice that the page no longer exists? Does this mean that they decided it wasn’t actually a fix?

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This is what happened to my laptop. It would do this more often when I had the external display hooked up and when I was running lots of programs (the laptop was hot). Usually I was using A/C power. This would be resolved after a forced reboot, but would keep happening until one day the display just wouldn’t turn on.

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