Grey screen every time with MBP Retina
Hi,
I got a strange behaviour of my MBP Retina. After upgrading to Mountain Lion it may not start. I have a grey screen, Safe Mode doesn't pass. Restore works, MBP boots OK then, can even restart and shutdown OK few times. But if the shut down period is long (more than 3-4h) I got a grey screen again.
I tried all the tricks with premissions restore, resetting PRAM, uninstalled Parallels and Little snitch, run Onyx for Mountai Lion and cleaned everything, everything from startup apps list. Nothing happens. I got a grey screen again, almost every day, then re-install the OS, and it works OK until next shutdown. SSD is OK, MBP has no hangs/freezes, works great after OSX reinstall, then again - grey screen. Verbose Mode hangs after a list of "FIPS USER Space Post" - all success, no mistakes. Before there is a message "Kernel is LP64", and the a string "/dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)"
Please, give some advise!
Sorry to bring this topic again, i have the same exact symptoms in here, and i suspect that its a third party aswell bugging me around doign this grey screens. ( had this for 3 days now after shutting down it gets back to grey screen but after i do a couple of stuff i can get it back to work. )
I already have the latest firmwares etc and updates i would say.
heres the etrecheck scan. ( ignore wow open )
Hardware Information:
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
iMac - model: iMac13,2
1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores
16 GB RAM
Video Information:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M - VRAM: 512 MB
System Software:
OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 2:12:19
Disk Information:
APPLE HDD WDC WD10EALX-408EA0 disk1 : (1 TB)
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
disk1s2 (disk1s2) <not mounted>: 937,52 GB
Recovery HD (disk1s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
BOOTCAMP (disk1s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 61,83 GB (16,99 GB free)
APPLE SSD SM128E disk0 : (121,33 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
disk0s2 (disk0s2) <not mounted>: 120,99 GB
Boot OS X (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 134,2 MB
USB Information:
Razer Razer Lachesis
C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Sound Device
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
com.steelseries.BoardListener (8.39 - SDK 10.6)
com.tuxera.filesystems.tufsfs.fusefs_txantfs (2012.4.17)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
[System] at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Agents:
[System] at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
[System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist 3rd-Party support link
[not loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
None
Internet Plug-ins:
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.38 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.1 3rd-Party support link
Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.38 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes:
Flash Player 3rd-Party support link
Java 3rd-Party support link
Bad Fonts:
None
Old Applications:
Install Spotify: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Users/[redacted]/Downloads/Install Spotify.app
SA Color Finesse 3 UI: Version: 3.0.6(275) - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Plug-ins/Effects/Synthetic Aperture/(CF3 Support)/SA Color Finesse 3 UI.app
dynamiclinkmanager: Version: 6.0.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/dynamiclink/CS6/dynamiclinkmanager.app
dynamiclinkmediaserver: Version: 6.0.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/dynamiclinkmediaserver/1.0/dynamiclinkmediaserver.app
Time Machine:
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU:
116% installd
38% World of Warcraft
10% WindowServer
7% firefox
3% storeagent
Top Processes by Memory:
1.28 GB World of Warcraft
770 MB firefox
239 MB installd
164 MB mds_stores
164 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
Virtual Memory Information:
4.18 GB Free RAM
5.21 GB Active RAM
5.03 GB Inactive RAM
1.58 GB Wired RAM
656 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
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