MBP Stalling/ Freezing/ Strange Pixelation
As of two nights ago, my Macbook Pro has been behaving very strangely and is currently out of commission. I had been having intermittent battery issues, which I thought were unrelated, but now I don't what to think.
Here is the situation:
1. The battery is bad, cycling at 44, won't hold full charge, local store had no parts available.
2. The night before going to local Apple retailer, dead pixels started appearing and disappearing randomly all over the screen. First it's just a dot here and there, but that soon turned into weird patterns everywhere, as though my display is having an epileptic attack. MBP froze upon start-up and remained that way despite several attempts to restart. Ran disk utility: NO software or hardware problems found.
I finally shut down my laptop and left it alone for several hours. I turned it back in the morning and it seemed fine, a few lightning bolt flashes of dead pixels aside. Apple Store didn't run a diagnostic for whatever reason, went back home, and it got worse.
I keep starting it up only for it to either freeze at the Apple logo, or allow me to log in and have the desktop freeze. I ran another full check via Disc 1 (installer) and still no problems detected.
I was in the middle of backing up my data when my laptop froze again last night. The pixelation comes and goes and my computer stalls at variable points in start up.
Does anyone know what is causing this? (I've unplugged all peripherals, et cetera, removed the battery, and pressed the power putton for fifteen seconds ad nauseam; it's just not doing the trick.) Does anyone know if Apple can back up the remainder of my files if I bring in my external hard drive?
I'd be grateful for any advice on the matter.
Thanks.
as Tjk said, check what is your graphic card...
my 2 cents:
it didn't seem to came from it, but I will check temperature and try to experiment cooling more the mac, with smcfancontrol :
as your mbp was better after a night without power, may be it could come from that.
if you're a smoker and use it in a dusty environment , your mac cooling system may be obstructed by dust.
smcfancontrol is a cool way to check what temperature have the mbp.
for your battery !!! : dead at 44 cycles ???
this is not normal...
are you using a rev A MBP with battery update 1.3 ???
at 44 cycles, you should have a battery with at least 60 % of it's capacity : you should phone to Apple in your country for that, may be they could do something
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6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
8. Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste by pressing command-V. The text you pasted should vanish immediately. If it doesn't, press thereturn key.
9. If you see an error message in the Terminal window such as "Syntax error" or "Event not found," enter
exec bash
and press return. Then paste the script again.
10. If you're logged in as an administrator, you'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You will not see the usual dots in place of typed characters. Make sure caps lock is off. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you make three failed attempts to enter the password, the test will run anyway, but it will produce less information. In most cases, the difference is not important. If you don't know the password, or if you prefer not to enter it, press the key combination control-C or just press returnthree times at the password prompt. Again, the script will still run.
If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
11. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, there will be nothing in the Terminal window and no indication of progress. Wait for the line
[Process completed]
to appear. If you don't see it within half an hour or so, the test probably won't complete in a reasonable time. In that case, close the Terminal window and report the results. No harm will be done.
12. When the test is complete, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.
At the top of the results, there will be a line that begins with the words "Start time." If you don't see that, but instead see a mass of gibberish, you didn't wait for the "Process completed" message to appear in the Terminal window. Please wait for it and try again.
If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
13. When you post the results, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "You are not authorized to post." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
14. This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I don't necessarily agree with them.
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My very new MBP 13" freezes. Not a software issue.
Hey,
My brand new MBP (Lion) has a great time for a while, but then freezes with three alarms sounding. (see pic - I also have video if people want to see.)
The Apple Care people "have not heard of such a thing", have been very helpful, but believing it to be a software compatibility problem, have given me some assorted solutions to try. They mean well.
I run Adobe CS5.5, Filemaker Pro 11, Microsoft Office 2011 and Firefox.
I have deleted StartUp items, (same result), in fact, almost every day I have had the computer home, this has happened.
I have backed up with Time Machine and erased the entire HD, downloaded and clean installed Lion. Three and a bit Gig later, the same thing has happened, with no software installed except the Lion system software.
This is clearly NOT a software issue and I need a solution very soon. My company purchased this interstate.That's the strange thing. Trying to run the Apple Hardware Test after a reboot with 'D' pressed and it ignores the request.
Solution found. It was bad RAM chips.
Chadstone Apple Store in Melbourne replaced the chips and turned it around for me in under 20 minutes.
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ok, MBP is working perfectly, its a great machine, but i am experiencing a weird mouse freeze whenever a 2nd user logs into my machine.
for instance, i have 2 accounts, my account and a guest account.
if i login and lock my computer and walk away, if the guest logs in, the mouse will freeze.
i need to hard reboot to get the machine back.
on restart, if guest logs in first, then locks the computer, and i try to login, mouse is frozen and i must hard restart again.
anyone experiencing this problem as well? very strange.I have the exact same issue. Sometimes logging out (shiftoption+commandQ) works for me... but yeah, it's really annoying. And my mouse is a USB Apple Mighty Mouse.
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Hello all, hope you can help me with a perplexing problem.
Starting this past Monday, my MacBook Pro (specs below) started stalling or freezing at random times. The stalls will sometimes last for 5 seconds and then I can use it again, other times it'll last for 30 seconds to several minutes. On occasion it'll freeze up so hard that I have to do a hard shut down. When it stalls, I can move my mouse and even select other applications which sometimes work. More often then not, it stalls all the programs and I just have to wait.
It does not seem to matter what applications are running or how many. Generally I run a web browser (Firefox, Chrome, or Safari - I've been alternating to see if one is better) with one or two tabs open. I've worked flawlessly for several hours with Browser, Word, and Terminal open, then it freezes up when I try to open something like System Preferences (or Spotlight or whatnot). So there is no real pattern when it comes to applications.
The temperature hovers around 55 - 65. RAM usage rarely tops half and CPU fluctuates but nothing outside of what you'd consider normal (i.e. it never pegs at 100% when stalled or frozen).
I've tried the following:
* Ran Rember (1 pass, then another 25 passes over night) - No Errors
* Ran Verify Permissions - No Errors
* Ran Verify Disk - No Errors
* Reformatted and Reinstalled the OS from scratch (problem continues)
* Repeated the Rember, Verify Disk Permissions, and Verify Disk - No Errors
* Reset PRAM and NVRAM
* Reset the SMC
* Ran Applejack and all the tests associated with it.
In the Console system.log, there was an instance of unknown-dev: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0x5. After doing some Googling, I ended up disabling Journaling to see if that would make a difference. I was able to run for about 25 minutes before it froze up again.
Any other thoughts or theories that I could try out? Much appreciated.
Specs
MacBook Pro
OS X 10.5.8
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM
Fujitsu MHY2200BH 186GB Hard Drive
GeForce 8600 GT w/256MBReformatted and Reinstalled the OS from scratch (problem continues)
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About once a week my early 2011 i7 macbook pro seems to freeze with these weird lines on screen. I was using Adobe Photoshop CS6 and had quicktime playing an mp3 in the background. Nothing out of the ordinary happened that I know of that could have triggered the computer locking up.
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Hardware Description Dell Dimension 2400 With an intel 82XXX motherboard CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER LIVE 5. (first generation I think) CREATIVE PC WORKS 5. (LX 520) I'm having detection problems!!! on my creative sound blaster li've 5. (with sn of c6sb02
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Autocomplete does not work after adding controller to LOV
Hi experts , Autocomplete does not work after adding controller to LOV Region, i have checked the fnd_compatialbe mode it is fine.validation proprty is also false, stilll it is not working. can anyone help me its very urgent regards vamsi