{"id":762,"date":"2011-05-04T19:01:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T02:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/?p=762"},"modified":"2015-09-27T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T22:56:20","slug":"macbook-air-2010-faces-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/macbook-air-2010-faces-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Air 2010 Faces of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My MacBook Air 2010 has been crashing a lot. Here is a sampling of some of the screens of death I&#8217;ve experienced over the past 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read that this is an issue with the Macbook Air&#8217;s when attached to an external monitor (<a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/2629780?threadID=2629780&#038;start=90&#038;tstart=0\">link<\/a>). It certainly does seem more common when connected to a monitor. However, I&#8217;ve got the crash when using the laptop without connector as well.<\/p>\n<p>Also, when connected to some monitors with VGA, there is a wavyness to the screen image which look like jagged vertical saw blades.<\/p>\n<p>Blue screen of death (no external monitor):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110504-070101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110504-070101.jpg\" alt=\"20110504-070101.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>White screen of death with magenta screen of death on the external monitor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110504-070111.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110504-070111.jpg\" alt=\"20110504-070111.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Red screen of death with white screen of death on the external monitor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110504-070120.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110504-070120.jpg\" alt=\"20110504-070120.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frozen screen with white screen of death on the external monitor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110504-070128.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/chriscarey.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110504-070128.jpg\" alt=\"20110504-070128.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My MacBook Air 2010 has been crashing a lot. Here is a sampling of some of the screens of death I&#8217;ve experienced over the past 3 days. I&#8217;ve read that this is an issue with the Macbook Air&#8217;s when attached to an external monitor (link). It certainly does seem more common when connected to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prpYG-ci","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}