[reddahc]

I just got a new Macbook Pro about a week ago, and I noticed a few things. First, sometimes when it starts up rather than seeing the grey screen with the apple on it, it'll just be a plain black screen. It usually will boot up into OS X normally either case however.

Secondly, after it has been asleep for a while (maybe 30 minutes), sometimes when I wake it up the screen remains black, but the computer is awake. I can usually put it back to sleep again and wake it up to get the screen back, but this is annoying behaviour on a brand new computer.

I've gone through all the technical support (reset PMU/PRAM, make sure no other devices are connected, etc.) At this point, they're going to be sending me a new one and I will be shipping this one back.

The problem is that I've read about this type of problem a lot online and I'm worried that the new one will just have the same problem. Is this something common to Macbook Pros that you just have to live with, or is there likely something wrong with my logic board or something that is causing this on my machine? Have others had similar problems like this fixed?

 

[reddahc]

Glad that it worked out for you. My new one should be here within a week, so hopefully it has no problems as well.

 

[reddahc]

Yeah, mine was not consistent either. I had it hooked up to an external monitor too, so I thought it had something to do with that, but I tried it without and managed to reproduce the black screen. It seemed to occur more often when it had been asleep for a while - I could repeatedly put it to sleep and wake it without a problem.

 

[reddahc]

I have my replacement now, and after a few days of use I haven't seen the problem. If it bothers you, you could get it checked out - people I talked to seemed to think it was a problem with the logic board.