Bluetooth Unavailable

[CowZ]

Its happened to me twice already where I started up and the bluetooth icon has a line through it. I move my cursor over it and it says bluetooth unavailable. The only remedy was to reboot and the problem fixed itself. I googled this problem and I saw some posts about it but they're dated back to '07. Have any of you guys had problem w/ the new unibody? According to the '07 posts, it could be a underlying problem to a bigger issue such as the logic board malfunction. I've also experienced dropped connection to my router, but I don't know if its a router issue or if its my mbp. Im running SL 32bit. Thanks for any response in advance.

 

[suklee]

Which MacBook / Pro do you have?

 

[secretanchitman]

my dads mbp had the same thing just last week. he hadnt rebooted in a long time (weeks) and just kept putting his computer to sleep/shutting the lid. finally restarted and it went away. i think it could also be a sign of failing components? who knows...:/ i love that computer though, and i would hate to see it break after such a short time..

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

It's a problem with Snow Leopard I believe. There are some threads on the Apple Forums that have not had any solutions that work. Hopefully 10.6.2 will fix it.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I think it's a problem that occurs when you do an upgrade instead of a clean install. When I upgraded my Macbook Pro 5,1 my bluetooth stopped work, but when I upgrade my Macbook 4,1 Bluetooth works.

 

[CowZ]

Yah I really hope its a software issue and it will be fixed soon. It doesn't really happen to me often anyway. Twice so far isn't that bad, but it just bugs me that I spent 2 grand for this and it would bug out only after 4 months of use.I have the 2.66ghz 15''.