Macbook Pro Win 7 x64

Question

Hi, I have recently bought a MacBook Pro 2009 from a mate who sold it as faulty. The Apple store said it was a faulty Logic Board but couldn't say for certain what the problem was. Having experience with PCs I tried putting an old HDD in to test if it
would work and it did. So I bought an SSD and installed Win 7 via Bootcamp.
Last night I upgraded OSX to 10.9.4 Mavericks which installed okay, then I installed the upgrade to 10.9.5 and left it running when I went to work. When I got home I found the Mac had frozen at the login screen with a spinning multi-coloured wheel in the
top left corner but the machine was unresponsive so I had to hold the power button down for 4 seconds to turn it off. After I restarted the update installed (again) successfully.
In Win 7 here is the hardware specs of my Mac:
System Manufacturer Apple Inc.
System Model MacBookPro5,5
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P7550  @ 2.26GHz, 2261 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Apple Inc. MBP55.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151708, 15/06/2009
Having heard OSX was rock solid I booted into Win 7 x64 and looked through the event logs and found these 2 errors which seem to be hardware related:
Log Name:      System
Source:        ACPI
Date:          22/09/2014 18:53:00
Event ID:      13
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      User-PC
Description:
: The embedded controller (EC) did not respond within the specified timeout period. This may indicate that there is an error in the EC hardware or firmware or that the BIOS is accessing the EC incorrectly. You should check with your computer manufacturer
for an upgraded BIOS. In some situations, this error may cause the computer to function incorrectly.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="ACPI" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49157">13</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-09-22T17:53:00.173600000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>4965</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>User-PC</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Binary>0000C00001000000000000000D0005C0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000AB9B21001101FFFF7100020011000A008100A800A1080B021100090011020E004121020 016088A03A618891F161A14003680050015180C001018C600600005009001A60070000500101A0A0
08000070030830200151007002180070011117602A1134D111110090011120E00412102001618280 0A6032D00161A0E00368002001518060000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binar y>
  </EventData>
</Event>
and
Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-HAL
Date:          22/09/2014 10:38:15
Event ID:      12
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      (1)
User:          N/A
Computer:      User-PC
Description:
The platform firmware has corrupted memory across the previous system power transition.  Please check for updated firmware for your system.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-HAL" Guid="{63D1E632-95CC-4443-9312-AF927761D52A}" />
    <EventID>12</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000001</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-09-22T09:38:15.186000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>4556</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="4440" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>User-PC</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="Count">1</Data>
    <Data Name="FirstPage">143</Data>
    <Data Name="LastPage">143</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>
could somebody point me in the right direction as to how to resolve these issues? My Machine has been upgraded to 8gb ddr3 1333mhz and a 240gb Kingston SSD 6Gbps. I think this version of the Mac only supports 1.5Gbps sata bus, I have downloaded a driver
from apple to upgrade the EFI to install faster storage to the 3.0Gbps but they do not support it so I am unsure if installing it will be a good idea.
Thanks for reading.
Darren
                        MacBook Pro, Windows 7, OSX 10.9.5

Answer 1

Hi,
According to the Event Log:
Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) error related. Generally speaking, this probably caused by Hardware problem. It would be better to contact Apple Service Center for further assitance.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support