17" MBP Freezing/Weird Restart issue

Hi All
I recently took my 17" MBP in for service due to extreme heat, a bad display and a latch that didnt work properly. I got it back lastnight and the heat is WAY less than before, display is better and the latch works but unfortunately every now and then my computer completely locks up (I'm not doing anything intensive, or particular, although I have noticed it twice when quitting programs).
My only way of restarting is to hold down the power button and wait a few seconds before turning it on, however when I do this I hear the mac chime, but the display shows nothing. If I leave the MBP to itself, after about a minute it will restart again on it's own (still no display) and this continues to the point where I hear the mac chime every few seconds.
I then have to remove the battery, hold the power button for 5 seconds to restore to factory defaults and then the computer will start up... until it freezes again. Rinse wash, repeat.
Anyone know what could be causing this? I know they replaced the logic board but he told me that it passed all hardware tests. Anyone encountered this before?
Thanks in advance!

Hey Johnathan,
When you remove the battery and hold down the power button do you also disconnect the a/c adapter? If you you are correctly resetting the Power Management Unit (PMU) correctly. You don't want to do this twice in a row or else you can fry your computer.
Have you tried resetting the PRAM? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
If that doesn't help boot to the install disk and run disk utilities. To do this insert the install disk, shut down, hold the C key after you turn the computer on, from the top menu bar select utilities>disk utility>mac HD>first aid>verify disk, if there are any errors run repair disk, then run verify disk once more to make sure the errors were repaired, if not call apple. You should also run verify disk permissions.
Although your computer went through extensive testing before it left repair it is possible that something was missed.
Hope this helps

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1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.
Don't be put off by the complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.
2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can act on it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of the script have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message.
Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
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Pavilion keeps freezing and restarting after 5 minutes of use

My laptop is continuously freezing and restarting. Please help!

According to the message you have posted I suspect there could be a hardware issue on your Notebook
It could be possible that the Hard Drive might have bad sectors or Memory Module on the Notebook could be corrupted
Please perform the Steps as shown below:-
1. Please "Turn OFF" the Notebook
2. "Power ON" the Notebook and keep tapping the Escape Key during the start up to enter the Start-up Menu
3. Now here, Please select the BIOS option [F10] and under the Advanced or Diagnostic tab
4. You should find the facility to run tests on both the Hard Disk Drive and Memory
Note: Please perform these two tests and post back with the details of any error messages
Please click the below shown link to find the steps for performing Hard Drive Test
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00439024
OR
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01443317
Tip for Data Backup:
Remove the HDD and install it in a USB HDD Enclosure. You can then plug it into a USB port of a working machine. If there is any life left in the drive you should be able to browse it and copy files off to HDD of host machine
Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182140
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Brand new E5 freezes and restarts often

I recieved the E5 not even two days ago, and I cannot tell you how much frustration I've gone through trying to stop it from freezing and restarting. It has happened in the menu, in the contact list, just trying to do random things. Also, it happens on its own, for example I just noticed it restarting while I'm typing this sentence, and I haven't touched it for five minutes.
It is extremely upsetting for a BRAND new phone to be acting like this, and thus far I am extremely displeased with the Nokia brand. I am not really too tech savvy, but I do know some, so please offer me suggestions and help with how to get this phone running optimally. Thanks.

I can sympathize, I'm having exactly the same problem. infact if you check the forum there are a number of people having similar issues with this model. My problems have been going on for over a month now. Issues started 3 days after getting the phone, right after getting the last of various updates sent to the phone by my network provider. Initially I spoke with the provider (Orange) who advised me to take it to my closest Nokia Care centre but haven't had the time due to work and still have my old (working) Handset. Have also noted from other posts that many have not had the issues solved even after taking the Handset to the care center for repair.
Have done the removal of battery and set the phone back to it's original factory settings but issues continued. Freezing / Restarting was initially happening only every 3-4 days but has gradually got worse. However, last week had message on the phone saying a software update was available to update via PC, whilst doing so phone had to restart but failed to turn back on which resulted in a failed update. Now, though phone can turn on it only does so for 5-10 mins at a time and only does so if I keep it in temperatures lower than 15 degrees celcius (I won't bore you with how I figured that out!). So basically I can only use it outdoors or if I put it in a fridge. Also the nokia software updaters now seem to think the phone has been updated even though it failed. With the number of issues many people are having with this phone I hope nokia are trying their best to rectify the issues. It is extremely frustrating as this brand new phone is basically unusable. Hopefully I can get it to a care center in the next few days but I'm not very confident they will fix it permanently.

M8530f freeze/lockup issue.

Was playing final fantasy xiv on pc earlier when suddenly I lost all sound, effects, and animations in game. When I attempted to exit the game the entire PC locked up and crashed. Originally I thought this a software issue with the game. However after restarting the pc began having hang issues on every program used on it shortly after restart. Diagnostic tools are saying there are no issues. However programs are becoming unresponsive for minutes whenever any type of input is attempted and refuse to close when told to. Resource monitor does not show any high usage of cpu or ram on the system.
Computer model m8530f
Windows Vista 64bit
Most of the sytem is still factory spec with the following exceptions
system has 6gb of ram. I replaced a single 1 gb chip with the 2gb chip from another pc of the same model that suffered a sata port failure in the motherboard.
Video card was replaced with a geforce 610GT. Onboard video has been disabled.
Sytem was not in use for a few years until previous system became inoperable. After making those 2 listed changes the system ran just fine for about 2 weeks with no issues until today. After a reboot I seem to get about 5 minutes of normal performance before the lag, freeze, and hang issues begin occuring.

Hi UkyoSonoda,
I would start with the recent hardware changes made.
Before reversing those changes verify your graphics drivers are installed properly by opening Control Panel - Device Manager. Do you have errors? If yes, uninstall graphics drivers and reinstall drivers or check for updated drivers at Nvidia website.
If the symptom persists, then run system file checker.
Then run hardware diagnostic tools . If any test fails then you may have found the problem.
Lastly, undo the ram upgrade.
Then undo the graphics card upgrade.
Hopefully one of these procedures will isolate the cause and return your PC to a stable condition.
Have you checked internal component temperatures? This free progam is nice. Try installing if you can. I realize you have stability problems and may not be able to install and use prior to a system lockup.
Good luck!
Jaco
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SR MBP freezes intermittently.

Hi,
My SR MBP freezes occasionally. Te only option is to hold the power button until it restarts. My wife has had to remove the battery to get it to restart - twice.
I've tried using the disk utilities and no hardware problems were reported. How do I 'repair permissions'? Is that likely to help?
Any suggestions? There does not appear to be a common cause of the crashes.
Thanks in advance.

One thing to check is the battery itself, and make sure it isn't swollen or distorted and exerting pressure on the trackpad from below. I believe the battery runs hotter when the Mac is on battery alone, and this might possibly be a factor.
Good luck!

MBP Freezes Constantly (memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid)

My MBP freezes constantly and I get variations of the console entry shown above. I get dozens per minute. Here is just one minute's log:
12/27/12 1:39:06.161 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[161]: (com.apple.tccd[1121]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/27/12 1:39:06.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1121 [tccd]
12/27/12 1:39:22.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1136 [cfprefsd]
12/27/12 1:39:22.638 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[161]: (com.apple.pbs[1093]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/27/12 1:39:23.111 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.sleepservicesd[1089]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/27/12 1:39:23.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1089 [SleepServicesD]
12/27/12 1:39:30.313 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpcd.F5010000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[1116]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/27/12 1:39:30.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1116 [xpcd]
12/27/12 1:39:30.773 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[161]: (com.apple.accountsd[1138]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/27/12 1:39:30.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1138 [accountsd]
12/27/12 1:39:34.623 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.sleepservicesd[1140]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/27/12 1:39:34.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1140 [SleepServicesD]
12/27/12 1:39:35.308 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[161]: (com.apple.tccd[1139]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/27/12 1:39:35.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1139 [tccd]
12/27/12 1:39:35.775 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.iCloudHelper[1115]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/27/12 1:39:35.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1115 [com.apple.iCloud]
12/27/12 1:39:45.759 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.sleepservicesd[1141]) Exited: Killed: 9
12/27/12 1:39:45.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 1141 [SleepServicesD]
This got so bad, that I reformatted my entire drive, reinstalled all of the Apple programs from scratch, and then only select third party ones that I always use (Microsoft Office, OmniFocus, Firefox, Evernote). That's about it. The main program that constantly stalls out, though, is Apple Mail. I have 80% of my hard drive free (240GB out of 300GB). I cannot figure it out, and it's driving me nuts. Any suggestions?

Dear Hampton, I have exactly the same problem with my MacBook Pro and it seems to be a RAM problem. I took it to the Genius Bar and sadly the truth, which the Genius bar guys were reluctant to admit, is that there are issues with the way the OS manages RAM, failing to clear Inactive memory and keep Free memory at a healthy level. If you go to the Activity Monitor and check the system memory I bet you will find that whenever you're seeing the "Exited: Killed: 9" lines one after the other as posted, you Free Memory would have been gobbled up by Inactive Memory. Extra memory would seem to be the permanent solution, sadly, and Apple charge an arm and a leg for it. Or you may have to live like I am at the moment, i.e. having the Activity Monitor permanently on the dock to keep an eye on Inactive Memory. When Inactive Memory gets too big I launch Terminal (Utilities) and type "purge." It frees up memory by clearig Inactive memory so that your machine's memory is as fresh as it is soon after you've started it. Good luck

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