MBP might have serious problems ?

Question

I will be working on my MBP when a line will come across the top of the page and slowly make its way down to the bottom darkening the entire page then a boz with the comand you must hold down the restart button to restart or continue. (Or something like that)
I first noticed this issue when I was working with large raw images then it seems to happen very inconsistantly. sometimes when I have many programs opened after working 10 hours other times much quicker.
Other symptoms include prior to this screen change sometimes prior to that happening I may notice a glitch or like static on my screen that doesn't move just looks like a old movie kind of.
could it be that I use up all my ram with other programs or something? I have 25 GB remaining on a fully loaded 2.16 MBP.

Answer 1

The 25 gigs remaining is not RAM but hard drive disk space.
From the MBP Users Guide page 103:
You can find out the amount of built-in memory, hard disk size, devices connected, and the product serial number. To access the information in System Profiler, choose Apple > About This Mac from the menu bar and then click More Info, or open System Profiler, located in Applications/Utilities.
Click the triangles in the window to show and hide information in the different categories.
As always, be sure to back-up your system.