Extend the warranty now.
Also what happens if you tap the power button instead of relying on the lid switch?
Bob
I bought an intel MacBook 1.83GHz 7 months back. Everything was fine until one day it refused to sleep on closing the lid. I opened the lid, and closed it back again, and it went to sleep fine.
Soon thereafter, I noticed that the MacBook started to fail to sleep on closing the lid with increasing frequency. One night, after finishing work, I just closed the lid as usual, and went to bed. I woke up to touch an extremely hot MacBook with fan running at full speed. And from then on, it has NEVER slept! I have tried closing the lid, using the Apple menu via mouse to sleep, and also used the terminal command for sleep. Nothing works!
I have repaired permissions thousand times, verified disk thousand times, completely reinstalled OS X Tiger twice, all to no avail.
Additionally, I don't know if it's a related phenomenon or not, but the bluetooth is also "not available" most of the times these days.
The warranty period of 90 days is over, and a poor student like me doesn't like to spend money. Please help me cure this MacBook insomnia!!! Thanks!

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