Auto Adjust Brightness late 2010 is gone

Auto adjust Brightness Button is gone?!?
Can you help me getting it back?
See

The auto brightness button is near the top - the one that starts with "Optimal".
In English, that button says "Resolution - best for built-in display".
I see what you mean, though, as resolution and brightness are really different things.
Anyway, glad your problem is solved.

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Auto adjust brightness ... can it be reversed?

I cant remember if i had this problem with Snow Leopard. Not sure if this is a Lion issue or my new MBA either.
The auto adjust brightness seems to adjust the screen brightness to low in bright light and high in low light.
I would like it reversed as in the dark, i dont need a bright screen and in the day, i need the screen to be brighter.
Any body noticed this same adjustment on their Lion MBA?
If so, does any one know how to reverse it?
Thanks

SAP has a program to reverse depreciation but it is somewhat complex and not available on OSS. I'm also not sure if it is limited to (or can be ported if it is) to the older depreciation program RABUCH which would limit it to those customers that currently post using RAPOST2000.
But barring access to the program, it's not possible to reverse it. You would have to proceed as Jagdish describes... feed the GL data that is -1 of the data that was posted. I wouldn't do it, personally.
-nathan

Display Auto adjust brightness acting weird and flickering

Last couple of months I get a fair amount of flickering on my screen. As far as I can tell, there
is no specific area that it is flickering in. After checking my settings for Auto brightness,, I find that
the box that is there for ticking off "Automatically adjust brightness" is unticked, and the brightness is
moved to around the 3/4 brightness area. I am in my basement which is fairly dark, so basically I am
trying to find out about the flickering that goes on, and have a feeling that when the brightness is diminished, it
causes/caused the flickering. So, I raised the brightness to extreme(right to the end of the scale) and continue
to have the box "Automatically adjust brightness" UNCHECKED. Sooner or later,, something must trip off the
Autobrightness,, because I eventually notice the flickering going on,, then I go to my settings to check the brightness,
and find that the slider is back to 3/4 and still the Autobrightness box is Unchecked. This happens all by itself.
Basically , #1,, whether it is on Auto or Not,, I shouldn't get any flickering, and #2,, my display shouldn't on its own
adjusting automatically the brightness by itself, unless I check the box correct? How can I get my screen brightness
to stick ?

To close out my original post, I never did managed to solve my flickering problem. I did every trick in the book, including SMC resetting PRAM etc. So, just as I had given up trying to fix, low and behold, my left side of the
screen one fine morning became rather dim. I knew that something , like backlight had gone on it. So, I still had
lots of warranty, brought it in. This time, because of it being a rather obvious defect upon looking at my screen.
The genius ordered a new LCD and backlight .
So far, no flickering, however, I still have the brightness level that drops down from a full brightness, no matter if I check off "automatically adjust brightness" or not. This being in a relatively dark environment.
I can imagine that there are many people still with this problem, with no obvious solutions that are 100 % effective.

Auto adjust in PV 2012 results in highlight clipping

Is there any control over the Auto adjust process in PV 2012? I'm using ACR 7.4. The Auto adjustment on the Basic panel seems too hot - by perhaps 1/2 to 2/3 f-stop (net effect on the histogram) and it usually results in a significant amount of highlight clipping. Auto adjust using PV 2010 seems more reasonable.
For example, using the same image, here's a comparison of the Auto settings:
PV 2012: Exposure +1.15, Contrast -9, Highlights 0, Shadows 0, Whites +41, Blacks -45
It results in some highlight clipping.
PV 2010: Exposure +1.10, Recovery 0, Fill 0, Black +10, Brightness 0, Contrast +35
Thanks in advance!

FrankMazz wrote:
Often I like to get solutions. But, often I'm just happy to know I'm not alone - misery loves company. Thanks Rob.
Thanks Frank. And I concur with Robert Shomler: auto-toned settings may not be usable "out of the box", but it can sometimes help to see what auto-toner would do with the various settings, especially whites, but also contrast and highlight/shadows (and blacks).
Sometimes I get stuck in a rut, and hit auto-tone, and go oh-yeah, I'm banging my head against a wall because I need more whites and less exposure, etc... (at which point I usually undo the auto-tone and continue manual toning, but more enlightened...),
Cheers,
Rob

Can't Adjust Screen Brightness MBP 2010

Hi everybody, this issue is driving me nuts!
I've browsed all the sections on this forum and numerous threads and still no dice... Here's my issue:
-I own an late 2010 MacBook Pro (iOS dev machine), which was working perfectly up to the point where I had to update to Mountain Lion 10.8.5
After the update, brightness control on the keyboard is gone (F1 and F2 are duds), also no manual control anywhere else...what gives??
I've done all the SMC reset mumbo-jumbo without any avail....seriously, it sounds like the old fix for windows 98..."just reboot and it will be fine...or not". I also won't accept "go to a genious bar" as answer, since that doens't exist on these parts and any "procedure" over a apple device will take over a month to be done with.
So my questions are:
1-What where they thinking when they removed the frigging slider from settings?? Do they take us for some sort of idiots that can't be trusted to handle their brightness without using the keyboard?
2-Why can't I change the brightness on my $2500 laptop after a software update? Pray, do explain how this has come to be?
3-Is there any command (using terminal) that I can run to permanently set the brightness level or just to, you know...change it?
4-I'd like to scale this issue with a formal complaint towards apple, I find this to be unacceptable as a customer and I'd like to give them a piece of my mind. Can someone point me out on the proper path to do this?

Hi Clarinet187,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
As per the query you are facing issue with screen brightness for your ThinkPad T500.
Please go to start and type device manager, open device manager and check if there is any yellow mark in any of the adapter.
Please click here to get the complete steps on the issue.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Hemanth Kumar
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New iMac brightness level keeps changing (auto adjust NOT checked)

Just got a new 27 inch iMac and keep on having to change the brightness level back to the brightness I prefer.
I do not have auto adjust checked, I put the brightness slider up to the level I like and after a while the brightness dims to what seems like the default level as its always down to the same spot on the slider...what gives? i just want it to stay where I want it...
Help.

I have same problem, of autobrightness being unchecked and my brightness going from full to about 3/4 bright
all by itself. I had that problem, then flickering of my screen also was taking place. I didn't bring my unit into Apple
because this autobrightness thing plus flickering would not happen on command,, and I wouldn't be able to show them properly. Well , finally my left side of the screen dimmed,, and that was the go ahead to bring it in to them
to show the left side of screen. I also told them about the flickering,, and the autobrightness, which I figured played a role into the final left side dimming. They replaced the backlight and the display LCD on warranty.
I have had it for about 5 days. The screen is equally lit (as should be), however, I discovered that my same old
problem of autobrightness, is slipping back to 3/4. So most of you have autobrightness problem in a sort of different way. I set mine to "torch" because my downstairs bedroom is dim (with one overhead light), but sometimes, just plain dark,, so I want to sometimes keep it at torch,, however, it still slips back. You would
almost think that if my surronding was dim or dark, that it would stay on torch if the autobrightness was really working properly. Go figure. I just tried SMC a short while ago,, I had tried, before my repair doing PRAM and the other one (I think VRAM). I also will unhook my second monitor to see if that is having an impact on things.
Do any of you in this post have a second monitor attached,, and have you tried unhooking it to see if the problem
is resolved?

Brightness auto adjusting problem with Toshiba 39l22U.

I own a Toshiba 39 inch LED 60hz 1080p hdtv (Model 39l22u), and I've had nothing but problems for months. I bought it back in January of this year for 400$ at BB and I initially had no problem with it, I thought that once I figured out the best picture I'd be satisfied, so I never bothered to return it. My problem isn't the picture detail, it's actually really nice on Bluray movies. My problem is something else. The brightness sort of adjusts when you move your camera angle around in video games. Unfortunately not many own this tv and the ones that have it and reviewed it said it's fantastic and has no problems, not a single mention of this.
The overall brightness of the TV adjusts to what you're looking at in game. For example, looking down at a road on Grand Theft Auto V the road gets brighter and the sky gets darker, then when I look up the road gets a bit darker while the sky gets brighter. While driving in a car at fast speeds can be an eyesore because the camera is moving and the brightness is adjusting a lot. It's like the TV is auto adjusting the brightness for some reason.
I also had another problem, but I was able to solve it. Dark areas would dim when the camera's in motion then go back to normal when you stop moving the camera angle in games. This was solved by turning the brightness up and it disappeared. So naturally I thought that maybe by turning up or down on things like the backlight, contrast, gamma etc that maybe this would go away, but it's still there.
This TV doesn't have many extra settings when it comes to Picture. Aside from the basics you have Dynamic Contrast and Dynamic Lighting, nether of which cause this problem as it still happens when I turn both of these off. There's no energy saving feature aside from powering down when not in use for a period of time. I'm stumped here, ether my TV is faulty or there's some sort of auto brightness adjust built into the TV that you can't change. I've also tried every different setting in my Xbox 360's display settings, but it's still the same problem.
Unfortunately I can't find out much about this TV, only a few reviews in which people say the TV is great. Which makes me think my TV is faulty.
Is my TV faulty? Or Is there something that could be causing this? Any ideas on what the problem could be?

I'm unfamiliar with that problem. If you can't solve your issue and no one in the community can help, contact support to speak with a tech support agent at (800) 631-3811.
- Peter

How to precisely adjust brightness under Lion

Hi,
working with a Mid 2010 IMac and the Apple Wireless Keyboard it is obvious that brightness may be controlled by pressing both the "fn" key and the respective keys F1 or F2.
Under Snow Leopard I created a list of useful shortcuts to get familiar with the various extra functions. One of them was to press ALT + Shift + fn+F1/F2 to be able to adjust brightness in finer steps than with the a.m. regular tune. The background of my question is the adjustment of brightness in context with a monitor calibration using a colorimeter.
This ALT+Shift method doesn't seem to work since I upgraded to Lion (10.7.3). Any ideas or proposals are appreciated.

Right. Attempting to install or boot a version of OS X earlier than the one installed on the Mac when it was built is likely to fail: Don't install a version of Mac OS X earlier than what came with your Mac
The reason is that new Mac hardware requires new drivers that may not exist on previous versions of OS X.
If it shipped with Lion it might be able to boot Snow Leopard, since there was a period of time in 2011 in which computers produced with Snow Leopard were later shipped with Lion, while the hardware remained unchanged. This will work only if you did not update the Mac's firmware though.

MacBook Pro (Late 2010) not booting up properly

I have a late 2010 MacBook Pro that will not start up properly, when I hit the power button the screen flashes white with the chime but no apple logo. The screen then turns off and the white indicator light starts flashing(at normal sleep speed) a few moments after bootup. During this process the magstrip stays solid green the entire time. While the front indicator is solid I tried making sure my screen brightness was not down or if I could turn up the brightness on my keyboard (which I couldnt) and the green light for the caps lock wouldnt come on either.
I have read through some other posts and have reset the NVRAM and tried to boot into safe mode, however I can not do such a thing with the screen turning off right after bootup.
Any help would be greatly appercaited, it was just working the other day and hasnt been moved so I'm lost as to what is wrong

Kinger2010,
you can try this: boot your MacBook Pro into Recovery mode by holding down a Command key and the R key as it starts up. Once the OS X Utilities menu appears, select Disk Utility. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select your internal disk’s boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out; if it is greyed out, or if it reports that errors were found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to restart in normal mode. Does it reach the login screen now?

Auto-adjust on Compaq WF1907 LCD Monitor

Auto-adjust on Compaq WF1907 LCD Monitor
I have a vision problem and need to adjust the brightness on my Compaq WF1907 LCD Monitor to 30%. However, every time I turn the monitor 'ON' it performs an auto-adjustment which resets the brightness to 100%.
How can I lock in the 30% or turn the auto-adjust off ?

Hello,
You can try locking the settings: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00850175&tmp_task=useCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=e...
-Chris
I work for HP.
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Can't use F5 and F6 keys to adjust brightness of LCD screen

I just bought a new Macbook (first one ever, new to Mac). I can't adjust the brightness of the LCD screen with the Function keys. When I do it, the icon pops up in the middle of the screen showing that it is being adjusted, but it does not change the brightness of the screen. I have turned off the auto adjust based on ambient lighting feature, and still not working right. I can adjust it by going into system prefs, but I would like to be able to adjust it using the function keys... Can anyone help with this? Thanks!

I am an idiot... i was adjusting the brightness on the keyboard backlighting, not the lcd screen.... woops!

Installed OS X 10.10 which slowed Late 2010 MacBookAir

I've been scouring the Apple forums for tips to improve the performance of my Late 2010 MacBookAir. As many have experienced, after installing OS X 10.10 Yosemite, my MBA performance dropped to a crawl. Hanging up at time with the colorful swirl, slow internet, poor battery performance, unable to multitask as well prior to OS 10.10.
Many tips suggested Uninstalling software like CleanMyMac2 and use FindAnyFile to locate hidden files to delete. Other software like AppCleaner, which I ran. Reset PRAM and SMC, which I did. Turn off some of the energy consuming features found in OS X 10.10, etc… All steps have been performed.
Lastly I ran EtreCheck and didn't get any hits in RED, but here are the results of running that software;
Problem description:
Installed Yosemite OS and it slowed my MBA considerably
EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated November 12, 2014 at 12:06:53 PM PST
Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010) (Verified)
MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir3,2
1 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Not upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
NVIDIA GeForce 320M - VRAM: 256 MB
Color LCD 1440 x 900
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10 (14A389) - Uptime: 0:5:0
Disk Information: ℹ️
APPLE SSD TS256C disk0 : (251 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 250.14 GB (89.92 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. FaceTime Camera (Built-in)
Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/Library/Extensions
[loaded] com.squirrels.driver.AirParrotSpeakers (1.8 - SDK 10.8) Support
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.option.driver.Option72 (2.15.0) Support
[not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionHS (3.26.0) Support
[not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionMSD (1.21.0) Support
[not loaded] com.palm.ClassicNotSeizeDriver (3.2.1) Support
[not loaded] com.rogueamoeba.InstantOn (6.0.2 - SDK 10.6) Support
[loaded] com.squirrels.airparrot.framebuffer (3 - SDK 10.8) Support
[loaded] com.taoeffect.ispy.kext (2.0.2 - SDK 10.2) Support
/System/Library/Extensions/InstantOn.kext/Contents/PlugIns
[not loaded] com.rogueamoeba.InstantOnCore (6.0.2 - SDK 10.6) Support
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support
[running] com.taoeffect.ispyd.plist Support
[loaded] net.freemacsoft.LiteIcon.LIHelperTool.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist Support
[running] com.amazon.music.plist Support
[running] com.taoeffect.EspionageHelper.plist Support
User Login Items: ℹ️
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
Kindle Application (/Incompatible Software/Kindle.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 67 Check version
OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.5 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.8
User Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.0 Support
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
Omnibar
RSS Menu
Ticker Tool
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player Support
FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) Support
Java Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 250.14 GB Disk used: 160.22 GB
Destinations:
IoMega Backup [Network]
Total size: 749.68 GB
Total number of backups: 41
Oldest backup: 2013-10-30 10:42:25 +0000
Last backup: 2014-11-09 21:59:33 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 749.68 GB > (Disk used 160.22 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      8% WindowServer
      1% CalendarAgent
      0% fontd
      0% AppleSpell
      0% notifyd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
82 MB Dropbox
60 MB mds_stores
56 MB ocspd
52 MB loginwindow
43 MB opendirectoryd
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
1.52 GB Free RAM
1.41 GB Active RAM
498 MB Inactive RAM
601 MB Wired RAM
955 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Try these in order testing your system after each to see if it's back to normal:
1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
    b. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
     Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
     COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the
     computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager
     screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
4. Reinstall Yosemite: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall OS X from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
            because it is three times faster than wireless.
5. Reinstall Yosemite from Scratch:
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
How to Clean Install OS X Yosemite
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
            because it is three times faster than wireless.

Macbook late 2010 13" won't charge?! Please help!

Ok so my mom gave me her old Macbook (late 2010) 13" laptop after it stopped working for her. She claims she didn't drop it but there is a large hunk of plastic missing around the magsafe port and it will no longer charge and the DvD drive doesn't work either (only makes a very annoying sound upon boot or waking). I was looking into the usual charge cycles for this particular battery a while ago and I believe it was around 300 which I was about 50 over, so I went and bought a brand new Apple brand battery and installed it only to find that it, like the other battery, still won't charge. My Macbook recognizes it is there but just won't charge. It says that this battery only has one charge cycle which indicates that it is indeed brand new. The battery icon on my top bar used to say service battery until I replaced it, now it only says "Not Charging". Here are my battery specs and if you need any info to help me, PLEASE ASK. Someone please help me save this wonderful computer....
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Serial Number:          W00078AH89X7A
Manufacturer:          SMP
Device Name:          bq20z451
Pack Lot Code:          0
PCB Lot Code:          0
Firmware Version:          103
Hardware Revision:          000a
Cell Revision:          130
Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh):          4109
Fully Charged:          No
Charging:          No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh):          5552
Health Information:
Cycle Count:          1
Condition:          Normal
Battery Installed:          Yes
Amperage (mA):          0
Voltage (mV):          11704
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):          5
Wake on AC Change:          No
Wake on Clamshell Open:          Yes
Wake on LAN:          Yes
Current Power Source:          Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim:          Yes
PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep:          0
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes):          15
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes):          10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):          5
Wake on AC Change:          No
Wake on Clamshell Open:          Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim:          Yes
Reduce Brightness:          Yes
Hardware Configuration:
UPS Installed:          No
AC Charger Information:
Connected:          Yes
ID:          0x0000
Revision:          0x0000
Family:          0x0000
Serial Number:          0x00000000
Charging:          No

A brand new battery would require a full charge in order to be used;
so you are lucky, in that the new battery had enough power already.
So that is not an indicator of much, other than the MagSafe Board
in the computer itself may have sustained damages due to ???
and would need to be checked over by an authorized tech or if you
are near an Apple Store with Genius bar, call ahead for appointment
to have a diagnostic test done and take along the MagSafe adapter
so they can see if that is part of the problem.
Of course, an optical drive issue could be part of a diagnostic check.
If you are in the US or Canada, the retail Apple Store offers a free
service of a diagnostic, even though the computer is no longer
covered by an AppleCare plan. So that is worth taking a drive...
Check the details here, and follow them to see if you can make it go:
•Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
•About NVRAM and PRAM:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
Are the contacts on both the MagSafe adapter and MagSafe port
clean, or do they have an odd color or debris in/on them? It is
possible to clean them of debris, but don't use watery stuff. A
tool such as a wooden toothpick could be used to see if anything
on there could be rubbed off or out of the contact areas.
Good luck & happy computing!

Can't disable auto screen brightness on M92z even after using power manager

I find the auto screen brightness annoying and have been trying to disable it. When I go into power manager and turn off "auto" it works, but once I reboot, it's back on again.
I've gone into the sensor section of power manager and disabled the sensor but that too does not stick. I've also checked that "magic brightness" setting as well. Nothing seems to stick after a reboot. Things work until I reboot.
I have installed the latest power manager, but 2 things seem strange. website says latest version is 3.40.0002 but when download and install that version it reports 3.40.0001 (notice the 1 vs the 2). Also in control panel it says power manager 32 bit but my OS is Windows 7 64 bit.
Roveer

Alright, so this is ridiculous. Back to square one with nothing booting. I managed to get it booted up once fully, and another time booted off the OS10.3 disc (froze during disk repair in Disk Utility).
I don't have another hard drive to try, and I've taken it apart and reset everything.
Any ideas?

Late 2010 17-inch MacBook Pro beach ball freeze

Hi all, this is my second to last resort (last is sending in for repair xD). Well anyways, hope that you guys can help me solve this problem so I won't have to go there .
Here's the story:
I recently purchased a custom, late 2010 17-inch MacBook Pro with these apple upgrades:
-2.8ghz intel i7
-anti-glare screen
After doing some research, I found out that the memory and harddrive upgrades from aren't any special. So, I decided to do these upgrades myself since it is cheaper. These are the components that I have installed:
-Corsair CM3X8GSDKIT1066 G (2x4gb 1066 ddr3 memory)- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233081
-Corsair P128 CMFSSD-128GBG2D (128gb ssd)- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233087
I purchased both of these items from newegg. The solid state drive came off of my old laptop, which I installed into about 6 month ago.
So, once my MacBook arrived, I didn't even turn it on. i went straight into unscrewing the back and installing the components. The process went smoothly and I booted up the machine afterwards. Everything looked fine at first, but the installation failed about midway through (due to failure to copy necessary files). But I tried and tried again and after about the 25th time (yes I know, it took the whole day), it finally worked. The reason for my persistency is because everytime it would fail, it would fail at different spots of the installation, so I figured that eventually I will get lucky. So I unchecked as many items as possible under the "what to install" list and it finally went through after many tries.
Now, with OSX running, the laptop would constantly freeze with the beach ball of doom.
Here is my thought process of what could be wrong (from most likely to least likely)
-installed ram is defect
-apple osx cd is defect
-compatibility issues with solid state drive (the drive must be fine since it worked in my old laptop for 6 months)
Once I installed OSX, I quickly went through the process of elimination to solve my problem:
-ran 15 hours of memtestosx with zero errors -> ram is fine
-since osx is running without a cd now, not the cd
-very unlikly that there are compatibility issues with harddrive
I did a TON of googling and found that many people have the same problem as me, but mostly on much older models (in which apple fixed through software/firmware updates) and also flash problems. I tried to installed these updates but OSX said that my system does not require them. So, I installed a beta version of flash and everything was much better, the computer started up 3 times faster and it did not freeze for a while. Hoever, after a couple hours of on-off use, it froze again . Knowing that it must be flash-related now, I uninstalled flash all-together. However, the problem still remains.
Here is a more detailed description of when this freezing occurs:
-mostly during safari operations such as loading a webpage or closing the browser
-it froze a couple of times while opening things such as the applications folder from the bottom dock or opening the "about this mac" window.
-before the flash beta update, it would freeze in the middle of a flash video playback from internet (like youtube). But after update, this freezing stopped occuring (did an hour of testing) and I actually got to the point where if I am loading a page in safari and it "looks" like it is freezing, I could close safari before my system goes into complete melt-down (once beachball starts spinning, all hope is gone)
Now, I am thinking that it might still be the OSX cd. Even though the installation was successful, it might have copied corrupt files that are freezing the laptop. I have order a replacement cd from apple and it should arrive within a couple of days. However, I still have big doubts on this being the actual solution.
I know that since this is a very recent model, it is hard for many people to have come across such problems yet (especially with my specific specifications). However, if anyone has an idea, or a past solution that is fits the description, any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading

Hi Dale,
Thanks for the replies. No, when I powered up the Mac, I put the OSX cd in first thing and press and held "c" until it started booting off the cd. Then I proceeded on reformatting the drive and etc.
I read all of that forum post. I reseted the PRAM, still freezes.
The new OSX cd came today, same thing happened, although it only took me 2 tries to install OSX. However, it would still freeze afterwards.
I very much realize that it could be a ram problem and how Corsair doesn't work so well with apple. However, Corsair has yet to let me down, that's why I chose it over crucial when I purchasing the ram. I did a lot of research and it seemed that as long as the ram meets spec, Macs will take it. And after 15 hours of memtestosx testing, I highly doubt that it is the ram.
However, I think I might have found the solution. I finally got the time to free up one of my external hard drives and installed OSX onto it to test the hard drive. I checked everything for the optional installs (except rosetta and the old quicktime) to further confirm my theory. After a very long install, it completed successfully! the odds of that happening on the first try using the old system is quite low (due to my countless install attempts with the old system and it failing with only half of the load of my new install).
And since then (probably around 3 hours of usage), my MacBook has not encountered a beach ball of death yet (well, sort of. it did it once when I was restarting, but I think that was due to the old drive because it is still plugged in and it was probably trying to read it while it was frozen in the closing phase of a shutdown). Anyhow, I think a few hours of usage will definitely confirm my theory and hopefully a ssd firmware update will solve my problem so I won't have to invest on a new ssd xD.
Ill update once I have made any progress

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