I just want to warn people who are using Windows on their MacBooks with OSX and BootCamp. Don’t use the sleep feature! I have not tried this with XP and please confirm if you have but I have tried this with Vista. Make sure you shut down your computer…
Normally I hit shut down but I recently hit the sleep button, you know the one that looks like the power button in my MacBook Pro and my Vista MacBook went to sleep. Well everything did what it was supposed to do.. Everything went off and the computer turned on to Vista when I hit the power button.
The only problem was, I could have fried an egg on it! This makes sense to me now since the boot configuration in BootCamp needs to run. So the computer does not really shut off but the fans apparently do.
If anyone has had similar circumstances, please let me know. If I am doing something wrong, please let me know.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Yep, happens in XP as well, just like you experienced it. However, I don’t think the fans shut down. I have done this while standing next to it, and the fans were spinning. Same thing happens if you close the lid, except then the fans do go off.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I may have not been paying attention. Whatever it does, it does get really hot.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Yeah!
The same issue with a MacBook Pro / Vista Ultimate.
Not only it gets hot, it also restarts during midnight (i guess overwarming to a level of no return)
and it gives a DIIIIING sound when it finally restarts!
I would say this happens like 5 out of 10 times!
Sometimes i can wake the notebook, but keyboard/mouse
everything is dead. So you have to restart.
It’s totally unreliable.
Darn.