NVIDIA 8600M GT gaming with Vista: GREAT!!

I just have to say.
After years of suffering with very few decent Mac games... FINALLY!
I made a Boot Camp partition for Windows Vista, specifically for gaming. And, let me tell you, it runs games better than my XBOX 360.
I picked up a sweet adapter for $20 that lets me use the XBOX 360 controller with my MacBook Pro. I think I almost caused a plane crash with this, due to the interference, hehe. But it's sweet!
You can run Elder Scrolls Oblivion on this laptop at 30 FPS at full resolution. Really, really not bad at all! Quite good actually!
It runs Counterstrike Source and Half Life 2 like a champ!
All the classic Windows games I never got to enjoy, finally they can run on my computer. Then switch back to Mac OS X when I want to get some music recording or photoshop done!
I have to say, I couldn't be happier with the gaming performance of this machine.. under Windows Vista anyway.
Maybe someday Apple will get their gaming act together in terms of OS X... but at least in the meantime we have this as a solution

Maybe its not possiable.

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Black screen. NVIDIA 8600M. Dispute with local repair service.

Hello,
I'm looking for help, presumably for a situation with bad nVidia chip descried in article TS2377. If any Apple technicians are here it would be great!
My local service provider privately told me that the main Russian service (where all local services send their requests for spare parts) rejects requests that may be a subject for TS2377 case, ignoring Apple post guarantee replacement for 4 years.
I have a "Carry-In Detail" paper from Moscow with my Diagnostic Code NVQ-7697e80a-02
You can download it here: http://www.zinov.com/static/details.pdf
Any information about what this code means is welcome.
In fact, the system is working well and all hardware components are working too, except for broken video that now is visible through Screen Sharing feature like "Intel GMA".
I'll appreciate any help.
Kirill,
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"If any Apple technicians are here it would be great!"
These are user-to-user forums where everyday folk post questions and offer answers to each other.
If you are having issues w/an AASP or an Apple Store either take the matter up w/the manager of the store or Customer Relations. Sorry, I do not know the Russian phone # for CR but if you call you call your country's Apple tech support, ask to be transferred to the Customer Relation department. Present your case to them. They will be able to cut through all the red tape.
Good luck!
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New MBP's - NVidia 8600M GT not recognized in Vista

I just installed Vista Ultimate on one of the new MacBook Pro's that use Nvidia 8600M GT. The adapter is not recognized and is defaulting to Standard VGA driver.
I tried manually installing the Nvidia drivers but it bombs out after saying that no compatible hardware is recognized.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

i was able to get it working after going here...
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13251
1- download the drivers and inf
2- overwrite the driver's inf file with their modified inf
3- install and reboot
now i have external monitors and aero.
great sucess! (in borat voice)

Problem with Gnome3 and/or graphics card Nvidia 8600M GT

Feb 22 07:40:21 localhost dbus[712]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Avahi': timed out
Feb 22 07:50:30 localhost kernel: [ 679.031379] gnome-shell[1277]: segfault at 10 ip 00007f3bbd305c0f sp 00007f3b84ff86d8 error 6 in libnvidia-tls.so.295.20[7f3bbd305000+3000]
Feb 22 07:50:31 localhost gnome-session[888]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal
Feb 22 07:50:35 localhost kernel: [ 683.420948] gnome-shell[1300]: segfault at 10 ip 00007f43bc84dc0f sp 00007f43877fd6d8 error 6 in libnvidia-tls.so.295.20[7f43bc84d000+3000]
Feb 22 07:50:35 localhost gnome-session[888]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal
Feb 22 07:50:35 localhost gnome-session[888]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
Feb 22 06:52:39 localhost rtkit-daemon[1004]: Successfully made thread 1420 of process 1420 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Feb 22 07:52:39 localhost goa[1441]: goa-daemon version 3.2.1 starting [main.c:112, main()]
Feb 22 07:58:22 localhost kernel: [ 1150.316794] CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 20113 nsec
Hi,
Here is my /var/log/messages.log output.
Since several days my computer repeatedly restarts programs that require at least a bit memory, such as firefox ('segmentation fault'), skype, virtualbox, generaly gnome 3 environment. Sometimes it happens that the system hangs and I can't do nothing, although I can hear that hard disk is working - at that moment only hard reset helps.
I know that the Dell Inspiron laptops (1720) have problems with Nvidia 8600M GT (the cold solder). Is it like that this time? Or maybe something wrong with the memory, CPU (Core Duo) cache memory?
I will be happy to add any additional information.
Regards,
Lukasz

Did you update the nividia driver recently?
there are some threads on this

Computer shuts off after Nvidia 8600M GT drivers installed

Hello, I recently used the Toshiba Recovery to start anew (out-of-the-box state) on my Satellite X205-SLi4. The problem is, after the Nvidia drivers (for dual Nvidia 8600M GT) were installed and I rebooted, the computer turns off during startup. I tried several times to restart, but the same thing happens. The ONLY way that my computer will run in normal mode is to run with the standard vga driver that was present befor the Nvidia drivers were installed.
Is there a fix for this? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance.
I'm running Vista Ultimate 32-bit.
This is what I found in the Event Viewer:
Error 8/28/2009 6:12:10 AM Service Control Manager 7000 None "The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it."
Error 8/28/2009 6:11:50 AM WerSvc 5007 None The target file for the Windows Feedback Platform (a DLL file containing the list of problems on this computer that require additional data collection for diagnosis) could not be parsed. The error code was 8014FFF9.
Warning 8/28/2009 6:11:36 AM WMServer 317 (4) "The description for Event ID 317 from source WMServer cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
C:\Users\Mia\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Media\11.0\WMSDKNS.XML
An invalid character was found in text content.
0
0
C:\Users\Mia\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Media\11.0\WMSDKNS.XML.(2009.08.28 06.11.36)
Warning 8/28/2009 6:09:37 AM Microsoft-Windows-WLAN-AutoConfig 4001 None "WLAN AutoConfig service has successfully stopped.
Warning 8/28/2009 6:09:36 AM Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon 6000 None The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> was unavailable to handle a notification event.
Warning 8/28/2009 6:09:36 AM Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon 6000 None The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> was unavailable to handle a notification event.
Error 8/28/2009 6:04:52 AM Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1084"" attempting to start the service McNASvc with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{24F616A1-B755-4053-8018-C3425DC8B68A}"
Error 8/28/2009 6:01:00 AM Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1084"" attempting to start the service WSearch with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{7D096C5F-AC08-4F1F-BEB7-5C22C517CE39}"
Error 8/28/2009 6:00:59 AM Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1068"" attempting to start the service fdPHost with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{145B4335-FE2A-4927-A040-7C35AD3180EF}"
Error 8/28/2009 6:00:58 AM Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1084"" attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}"
Error 8/28/2009 6:00:58 AM Microsoft-Windows-EventSystem 4609 Event System The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043c from line 45 of d:\vistartm\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.
Error 8/28/2009 6:00:50 AM Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10005 None "DCOM got error ""1084"" attempting to start the service ShellHWDetection with arguments """" in order to run the server:
{DD522ACC-F821-461A-A407-50B198B896DC}"
Error 8/28/2009 6:00:26 AM Microsoft-Windows-WLAN-AutoConfig 10000 None "WLAN Extensibility Module has failed to start.
Module Path: C:\Windows\System32\IWMSSvc.dll
Error Code: 21
Warning 8/28/2009 6:00:23 AM Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon 6000 None The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> was unavailable to handle a notification event.
Error 8/28/2009 6:00:04 AM Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog 1101 Event processing Audit events have been dropped by the transport. The real time backup file was corrupt due to improper shutdown.
Warning 8/28/2009 6:00:04 AM PlugPlayManager 263 None The service 'TabletInputService' may not have unregistered for device event notifications before it was stopped.
Error 8/28/2009 6:00:04 AM EventLog 6008 None The previous system shutdown at 5:58:12 AM on 8/28/2009 was unexpected.
Error 8/28/2009 5:54:45 AM Service Control Manager 7000 None "The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it."
Error 8/28/2009 5:54:39 AM WerSvc 5007 None The target file for the Windows Feedback Platform (a DLL file containing the list of problems on this computer that require additional data collection for diagnosis) could not be parsed. The error code was 8014FFF9.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Do you still think this is hardware related?
I do, Mia. Restoring the hard disk to its factory-new contents should result in an error-free installation, with all drivers working properly.
It's the way tech-support people verify that the hardware is okay.
"Event Viewer cannot open the event log or custom view. Verify that Event log service is running. The data is invalid (13)."
See this Microsoft article.
Error message when you use Event Viewer to open an event log on a Windows Vista or a Windows Server ...
-Jerry

Success story: NVIDIA 8600M GT graphics card defect repaired at no cost

This is the story of Apple servicing my MacBook Pro with the NVIDIA graphics card defect.
I had the NVIDIA 8600M GT graphics card defect in my 2 year old MacBook Pro. The symptoms were pinkish images, scrambled and chopped images, and finally leading to no video, all within a matter of 3 days. I called AppleCare using the old number I remembered from my 100mhz Mac days: 1-800-SOS-APPLE. I was greeted by a real person within 3 minutes. She explained that my 90-day complimentary phone service had expired some 600 days ago.
After I mentioned the specific Apple Knowledge base article that described the defect (TS2377), and that it was covered up to three years out of warranty, she transferred me to a MacBook Pro specialist. Sheri ran me through several standard resets and reboots. She then suggested that it be taken into an Apple store for a genius to look at. When I explained that the nearest Apple Store was an hour away, she arranged for a mail-in service.
After the call had ended, I received a simple email with her phone number so that I could contact her if I needed to. Another automated email contained my repair case number and a link to check the status online. The online status center is very easy to use. It displayed three steps: Sending the empty box, service in progress and return. FedEx tracking numbers were included with working links.
The next day an empty box arrived, completely with graphical IKEA like packaging instructions and form fitting foam for my MacBook Pro. I knew when the FedEx truck came around, so I had my computer ready by my side. As soon as FedEx showed up, I explained that the empty box was for the computer and Marcos helped me apply the pre-paid return label and taped the box expertly with tape from his truck. I also placed in the box a copy of the Apple Knoweldge base article and pictures I had taken of the issue.
Apple had included a small stack of super adhesive pre-cut tape square, but Macros was already taping it before I figured out what they were. The return label was also pre-paid with overnight service.
The next day I logged into the online support status at Apple.com and checked my status. The tracking number showed it had arrived in Houston, and the three steps had been updated to "Repairs completed" and "Return in progress."
The return FedEx tracking number was displayed later in the evening, and it showed that it was guaranteed to arrive by 10:30AM the next day. Speedy service! Sure enough, the next day I had my computer back in my hands, all data perfect and intact. I was very worried since I was not able to make a back up before sending it in, and Apple does not guarantee data safety. Apple had replaced the logic board, valued at $700 on iFixit (http://www.ifixit.com/MacBook-Parts/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Core-2-Duo-2-2-GHz-Logic -Board/IF185-073).
The funny thing is, for the past 5 years, I have always cloned my drive or used time machine, but for the past two months I had cleared the backups to make up extra room on my externals. You really never know when disaster will strike!
Learned:
- Apple Customer Care is top notch, speedy and their status site is very easy to use
- FedEx service was very helpful
- If you have a NVIDIA graphics card, Mac or PC, check if your model is affected. Just today Sony announced that NVIDIA cards with defects will now be covered for 4 years out of warranty. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10307592-64.html)
- Back up your stuff NOW. Use a flash drive or email files to yourself for a cheap fix.
Roland

ha
got the same problem with my mbp (dec 2007)
also no video within 5 hours .... also no external video.
lucky i had screen sharing on so i could check the system profiler via an other mac.
It couldn't find the 6800M GT anymore...
did another backup and went to the local apple store
took a print out of Apple Knowledge base article that described the defect (TS2377)
and they replaced the logicboard+gpu for free within 10 days ...
everything is ok now except for my maxmsp copy which thinks it runs on an other machine and complains about a missing licence ....

NVidia 8600M GT more RAM?

I have a MacBook Pro (~2008) 2.4GHz with 4GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM and the nVidia 8600M GT video chip with 256MB vRAM. I am working with Adobe Photoshop CS6 and continually get a message that my 3D capabilities are disabled due to lack of vRAM available (need 512MB min) ...
Question: Is there a way to manaually provision more RAM to the video card to up it to 512 MB?
Thanks.

The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M is a dedicated graphic card, so you can't modify its VRAM because it's not being shared with your main memory. In Macs with integrated cards, you can add more VRAM by installing more RAM. See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3246

Nvidia 8600M GT PCI-E problem on GX600 notebook.

Hello,
I've got MSI GX600 notebook with Nvidia 8600M GT video card.
The problem is, that the notebook has a low performance in 3D.
It's caused by that 8600M GT video card, because the GPU-Z shows, that the card runs only in PCI-E 1x mode, but it is in the x16 PCI-E "slot".
I tried everything. Reinstall of OS (Windows 7 64, Windows XP, Windows 7 32), new drivers, old drivers, nvidia drivers, msi drivers,alternate drivers(OMEGA),
flashing of motherboard bios, cleaning the ventilations and heatsink, but the problem is still here. Are there any advices or ideas, how to solve it?
The notebook is 3 years old, so the warranty is gone and i don't want to buy new PC.
A Lot of thanks, S.Martin.

Quote from: niffcreature on 10-July-11, 02:01:47
Um, have you actually compared benchmarks of other 8600m GT cards?
They aren't very good in the first place.
There is nothing to compare, i see a graphic performance slowdown in everything, and detailed list from gpu-z. I've found a problem, now i need the solution.

Could MBPro Nvidia 8600M GT card problems be caused by Nvidia drivers?

Just got back from the Authorized Apple tech shop, where they tested my MBPro 15" 2.4Ghz with Nvidia 8600M GT with 256MB vram, using the special Nvidia test software. They hook your MBPro to an external HD with the test software on it.
They tested my MBPro and the results said the video card WASN'T defective or affected by the known defects.
When the tech said "everything's normal", I said that it may not be eligible for the free replacement program, it may have cleared all the Nvidia tests, and the video card might not be "officially" defective, but if there's one thing the display on my $1800 MBPro is NOT is "normal".
I insisted the tech guy look at my MBPro in action, scrolling down and up longish text and web pages. Took him about 3 seconds to "get it", i.e. what I'd been describing as the dizzying ripples, where the text "bulges" up and out at you as you scroll up and down.
He said, Yeah, wow, I guess you do have something there. But you're still not eligible for the replacement program.
I said I wasn't interested in getting the logic board replaced, in fact I'd prefer NOT to have to leave the MBPro for any length of time. But I was not ready to hear someone say it was "normal".
I said I'd had just about every Mac ever made, including a few recent Intels, and NONE of them ever had this "ripple" problem. I still have a Core Duo 20" iMac - no ripples - and a Core 2 Duo Macbook - no ripples - and I asked the tech what he could make of that.
He said hold on a sec, and went onto his brand new 24" iMac and, lo and behold, he said "Well, yeah, I see what you mean by those ripples. I'd never noticed it before."
So he called over the other tech guy and they looked at the ripples up and down, and said that it might get annoying after 8 hours at your computer.
Then he said that seeing as the problem WASN'T there with the Intel Macs that had ATI cards in them, or Intel GMA for the Macbook, the problem just might be with the NVIDIA DRIVERS. He said it looks like a problem REFRESHING and REDRAWING the screen. And might be solvable in future releases of the drivers and/or the OS.
Anyone think it might be the NVIDIA drivers?

Quote from: niffcreature on 10-July-11, 02:01:47
Um, have you actually compared benchmarks of other 8600m GT cards?
They aren't very good in the first place.
There is nothing to compare, i see a graphic performance slowdown in everything, and detailed list from gpu-z. I've found a problem, now i need the solution.

IPod setup on Mac now needed for PC with Vista

I have had my iPod setup on a Mac and now am using a PC with Vista. I installed iTunes 8.x and when I connected my iPod I was informed that it had to be reformatted for use with Windows.
This iPod is packed with music. Is there any way to salvage the content on this iPod?
Any help greatly appreciated!

You might be able to do something with a 3rd-party ipod manager, but I suspect they are also either Mac or Windows-based, as in either/or and not "works with both". Here is a good page to start researching it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisonof_iPodmanagers
I would steer clear of the free ones. Also, and contact the company who sells whichever one you choose to make sure it can do what you want.
And you could see if any of your friends have a Mac, just to get the music files off the iPod and then put back on after you've Windows-formatted it.

Windows 7 Clean Install on T500 with Vista

So my thinkpad t500 was infected (the entire recover area was also infected). It came with Vista and I just got the recovery media CDs for Vista. But I don't want to install Vista. I have a legitimate copy of Windows 7 that I purchased and completely formatted the entire laptop (all the partitions including the recovery media partitions which were infected). IBM does not sell Win 7 recovery media (if your laptop came with vista installed) unfortunately.
Now I have win 7 working but I have no internet connection.
I tried to install Thinkvantage 5.02 so that thinkvantage can automatically download the drivers (but the internet connection is not working so that is not going anywhere).
I had downloaded a couple of drivers from lenovo's website. I installed one of them called 7vr722ww.exe. It did not work (no internet connection). When I go to device manager the network adapters say they are upto date.
Any help with downloading and fixing the OS would be great. A step by step approach would be better. I saw some tutorials online but they are not very useful but I could have missed something here.
I tried this tutorial : http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo/642274-patchysans-guide-clean-installing-windows-7-thinkpad.h...
and could not go beyond step 8 (updating drivers does not work). I also don't have anything beyond the recovery discs for vista (not windows 7). I looked for any executables in the two recovery cds for vista but found none.
Thanks for any help that anyone may be able to offer.

Ok I am using 32 bit system (or I think I was but I accidentally installed using the 64 bit dvd! I am going to do another clean install to fix this tomorrow)
This time around (on my second/third attempt at clean re install) I kept the wifi radio signal on and win 7 installation asked me for a password and I entered it at it worked! (had some issues because I was trying to simultaneously connect via ethernet but once I unplugged the ethernet cable I am now online using my clean installed machine).
I am now downloading thinkvantage system update and it is downloading a lot of recommended and other drivers.
In my third time around clean install I deleted the 2 partitions that my thinkpad came with and combined all into one partition and formatted it (so as to avoid the virus from re emerging , unless the virus in the bios in which case I don't know what I can do).
Win 7 created its own 100 MB partition and lets hope that thinkvantage does the right thing and creates the recovery media and cds which I may then use to create my own recovery CDs for this computer.
I see that system update has ended the downloads and installs but I dont see any system recovery options. How do I get the recovery and rescue software on this ?
There is something strange that win 7 (and vista on t500 ) does: the computer freezes upon startup and I have to ctrl+alt+del and then click on task manager to unfreeze it. Is this happening with other people?
I must say that buying lenovo's thinkpad is like the most awful experience ever. I have a 2004 thinkpad from IBM and it still works just fine (with xp) and works better than my brand new 2009 T500! ... the T500 by lenovo is just awful. Months after buying it the right button of the mouse on the laptop stopped working. I use an external mouse now because I did not have the time to send and mail the entire laptop (I had to make do and now the warranty has expired and they wont even renew it!). When I try to type on the keyboard I accidentally triger the laptop's half functioning mouse ! it is just an awful experience altogether with the shoddy workmanship and garish clunkiness of design.

10.6.8 freeze macbookpro3,1 nvidia 8600M

I have been having somewhat random lockups since upgrading my machine to 10.6.8. It appears to be a video issue, but I can't be sure if it is a hardware problem or a software issue related to the update. Every time before the machine freezes (hard lock up, requires pushing the power button, disconnecting the power cable, and removing the battery in order to reboot!) the screen flickers (1 to maybe max 6 times) the cursor moves for just a moment longer, and then its totally done.
I have an older MacBook Pro 3,1
Nvidia 8600M graphics card.
The machine also has PGP Whole Disk Encryption and VMWare Fusion for a good combination of strange kernel extensions.
I haven't seen any evidence of peripherals being the problem, although when it is connected to my second display (Apple 23" display) it seems to happen a lot more frequently. (That is also when it is connected to the external hard drives, including time machine.) Removing the hard drives didn't seem to help.
Here is the dump report. Any help would be appreciated. It will take me approximately 1 month to replace the machine through purchasing, so any tips would really help.
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 11514 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Thu Jun 30 09:39:51 2011
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x5e50cc97): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00002500: CFG 0x040710de 0x00100406 0xd2000000, BAR0 0xd2000000 0x5f020000 0x084700a2, D0, P2/4
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5bffafe8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x5bffb01c 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x5bffb038 : 0x5e50cc97 (0x5e72222c 0x5e792840 0x5e730f88 0x0)
0x5bffb0d8 : 0x5ed0da7d (0x7b18004 0x72bb004 0x2500 0x72bb004)
0x5bffb118 : 0x5ecfed5e (0x72bb004 0x2500 0x0 0x0)
0x5bffb198 : 0x5ecf5132 (0x72bb004 0x8e86804 0x41 0x5bffb1d0)
0x5bffb2b8 : 0x5e612b4d (0x72bb004 0x8e86804 0x992700c 0x200)
0x5bffb2f8 : 0x5e691a6e (0x72bb004 0x8e86804 0xc4dd32c 0xc4dd304)
0x5bffb3a8 : 0x5e6932df (0x72bb004 0x8e8c004 0x0 0x0)
0x5bffb438 : 0x5ecf439d (0x72bb004 0x8e8c004 0x1a 0x2)
0x5bffb4b8 : 0x5ecfdf8e (0x72bb004 0x8e86804 0x4400000 0x5bffb5cc)
0x5bffb628 : 0x5ed35c94 (0x72bb004 0x8e86804 0x0 0x0)
0x5bffb6f8 : 0x5ecfab39 (0x72bb004 0x7195004 0xffffffff 0x0)
0x5bffb748 : 0x5ed0256b (0x72bb004 0x8e86804 0x0 0x1)
0x5bffb888 : 0x5ecee01d (0x72bb004 0x8e86804 0x18 0x5bffba50)
0x5bffb8d8 : 0x5e6155e8 (0x72bb004 0x8e86804 0x18 0x5bffba50)
0x5bffb9f8 : 0x5e4ea35f (0x72bb004 0x8e86804 0xc1d00055 0x18)
0x5bffba98 : 0x5e4e2cd8 (0x5bffbac4 0xbefb0004 0x5bffbadc 0x0)
0x5bffbaf8 : 0x5e4ef7e7 (0x5bffbb1c 0x8 0x5bffbb28 0x5e6238dc)
0x5bffbb88 : 0x5e5126a4 (0x5bffbd68 0x9 0x0 0x0)
0x5bffbd38 : 0x5e514467 (0x0 0x600d600d 0x7029 0x5bffbd68)
0x5bffbe08 : 0x5da3cb0a (0xc1d00055 0xbeef0003 0xbefb0004 0x452b4)
0x5bffbe28 : 0x5da3d368 (0x9d43400 0x0 0x5bffbe58 0x5da2a658)
0x5bffbe58 : 0x5da289a2 (0x9d43400 0x7aef280 0x5bffbe98 0x7aef9c0)
0x5bffbe78 : 0x5da5d0fa (0x46be5000 0x0 0x5bffbea8 0x504e08)
0x5bffbea8 : 0x5da5d485 (0x7aef9c0 0x3742933f 0x1bd 0x5da035ce)
0x5bffbed8 : 0x553ec7 (0x7aef9c0 0x7aefa40 0x1 0x6)
0x5bffbf28 : 0x552ea6 (0x7aefa40 0x8000 0x1b0b 0x0)
0x5bffbf88 : 0x552eea (0x7b3da80 0x7b3da80 0x0 0x7fff)
0x5bffbfc8 : 0x2a179c (0x7b3da80 0x0 0x10 0xa1f57a4)
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.GeForce(6.3.6)@0x5da01000->0x5dab7fff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.3.6)@0x5e4a6000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0x5d51b000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x557aa000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x5d5bb000
         com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(6.3.6)@0x5ec0b000->0x5f01ffff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.3.6)@0x5e4a6000
         com.apple.NVDAResman(6.3.6)@0x5e4a6000->0x5e793fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x557aa000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0x5d51b000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x5d5bb000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10K540
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 1916547637186
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver          2.0 (addr 0x5b5cc000, size 0x12288) - last unloaded 177965874232
loaded kexts:
com.pgp.kext.PGPnke          1.1.0 - last loaded 100182392214
com.vmware.kext.vmnet          3.1.3
com.vmware.kext.vmioplug          3.1.3
com.vmware.kext.vmci          3.1.3
com.vmware.kext.vmx86          3.1.3
com.pgp.iokit.PGPwdeDriver          1.2.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor          1.9.3d0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs          2.1.0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC          1.57
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X          7.0.0
com.apple.iokit.CHUDUtils          364
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient          3.5.7
com.apple.iokit.CHUDProf          366
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl          1.0.20
com.apple.GeForce          6.3.6
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver          1.1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA          2.0.5f13
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight          170.0.46
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor          3.0.1d2
com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2          3.2.1b1
com.apple.kext.AppleSMCLMU          1.5.2d10
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMeromProfile          19.1
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros21          425.14.7
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin          4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC          1.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad          201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver          201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard          201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController          303.8
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient          2.6.8
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage          1.6.4
com.apple.BootCache          31.1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib          1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET          1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM          1.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub          4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort          2.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA          2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI          4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI          4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI          4.7.3
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager          160.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC          1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons          1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS          1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC          1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC          1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient          142.6.0
com.apple.security.sandbox          1
com.apple.security.quarantine          0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall          2.1.12
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement          142.6.0
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction          17
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction          10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction          14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction          10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction          10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction          20
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface          74.2
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager          2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily          10.0.3
com.apple.iokit.CHUDKernLib          365
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib          2.0.5f13
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily          1.8.3fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib          1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert          1.0.1
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal          6.3.6
com.apple.NVDAResman          6.3.6
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport          2.2
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP          2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily          41.4
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController          2.0.5f13
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily          2.2
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily          2.0.5f13
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family          320.1
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily          1.10
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC          3.1.0d5
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily          4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController          2.4.5f3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController          2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily          2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver          4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub          4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite          3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice          2.6.8
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily          1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily          1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily          1.6.1
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter          402.1
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport          2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily          2.6.8
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime          1.4.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient          4.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily          2.0.6
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily          2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily          4.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily          4.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily          1.6.6
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily          1.1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet          6
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch          1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages          289.1
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily          1.6.3
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform          1.3.6
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily          2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily          1.3.0
Model: MacBookPro3,1, BootROM MBP31.0070.B07, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.16f11
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x168C, 0x87), Atheros 5416: 2.1.14.6
Bluetooth: Version 2.4.5f3, 2 service, 12 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
PCI Card: pci168c,24, sppci_othernetwork, PCI Slot 5
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HTS545050B9A300, 465.76 GB
Parallel ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GSA-S10N
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0xfd400000 / 2
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x021a, 0x5d200000 / 3
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x5d100000 / 2
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8205, 0x1a100000 / 2

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The kernel panic info is below. Let me know if I need to post any particular information needed for diagnosing the problem.
Fri Dec 16 10:06:41 2011
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x9f5c97): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00003250: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xd2000000, BAR0 0xd2000000 0x5dfe6000 0x084700a2, D0, P2/4
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5d7b9c58 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x5d7b9c8c 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x5d7b9ca8 : 0x9f5c97 (0xc0b22c 0xc7b840 0xc19f88 0x0)
0x5d7b9d48 : 0x14b7a7d (0x8bdcc04 0x91de004 0x3250 0x0)
0x5d7b9d88 : 0x149dba0 (0x91de004 0x3250 0x5d7b9db8 0xb08b76)
0x5d7b9db8 : 0x14a174f (0x91de004 0x8f14004 0x5d7b9ec0 0x0)
0x5d7b9f18 : 0xafbabb (0x91de004 0x8f14004 0x8a834c8 0x0)
0x5d7b9f58 : 0xb7acee (0x91de004 0x8f14004 0x8a834c8 0x8a83404)
0x5d7ba008 : 0xb7c2df (0x91de004 0x89ec804 0x0 0x0)
0x5d7ba098 : 0x14d9edf (0x91de004 0x89ec804 0xd 0x2)
0x5d7ba1a8 : 0x14df1e7 (0x91de004 0x87e9804 0x0 0x0)
0x5d7ba2d8 : 0xb2f258 (0x91de004 0x91df004 0x0 0x0)
0x5d7ba318 : 0x9fee2b (0x91de004 0x91df004 0x0 0x0)
0x5d7ba3b8 : 0x9fb50a (0x0 0x9 0x0 0x0)
0x5d7ba568 : 0x9fd062 (0x0 0x600d600d 0x7037 0x5d7ba598)
0x5d7ba638 : 0xcb86d2 (0xc1d00051 0xbeef0003 0x1ea 0x5d7ba660)
0x5d7ba7b8 : 0xcb9522 (0x9570000 0xbe65 0x5d7ba7e8 0x506312)
0x5d7ba7e8 : 0xcc7755 (0x9570000 0x9570000 0x7a 0x0)
0x5d7ba818 : 0xcc77fd (0x9570000 0x4814a000 0x200 0x0)
0x5d7ba878 : 0xcd4d94 (0x9570000 0x4814a000 0x5073b080 0x21dd0080)
0x5d7ba8d8 : 0xc97dda (0x4814a000 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x5d7ba948 : 0xc9740f (0x4814a000 0x0 0x2 0x3)
0x5d7ba978 : 0xc8d05f (0x4814a000 0x0 0x2 0x47d9f000)
0x5d7baab8 : 0xcc65d8 (0x47d9f000 0x1 0x5d7babcc 0x5d7babc8)
0x5d7bab68 : 0xc88fe1 (0x47d9f000 0x1 0x5d7babcc 0x5d7babc8)
0x5d7babe8 : 0x56da06 (0x47d9f000 0x0 0x5d7bae3c 0x5d7bac74)
0x5d7bac38 : 0x56e2a5 (0xd17720 0x47d9f000 0x8c74488 0x1)
0x5d7bac88 : 0x56eb59 (0x47d9f000 0x10 0x5d7bacd0 0x0)
0x5d7bada8 : 0x286638 (0x47d9f000 0x10 0x8c74488 0x1)
0x5d7bbe58 : 0x21dbe5 (0x8c74460 0x9d5e5a0 0x1fd7e8 0x5733)
0x5d7bbe98 : 0x210a86 (0x8c74400 0x0 0x8facc00 0x95956c0)
0x5d7bbef8 : 0x216f84 (0x8c74400 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x5d7bbf78 : 0x295c57 (0x8c84328 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x5d7bbfc8 : 0x2a256d (0x8c84324 0x1 0x10 0x8c83ea4)
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.GeForce(6.3.6)@0xc7d000->0xd33fff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.3.6)@0x98f000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2.1)@0x982000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x949000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2.1)@0x960000
         com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(6.3.6)@0x13b5000->0x17c9fff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.3.6)@0x98f000
         com.apple.NVDAResman(6.3.6)@0x98f000->0xc7cfff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x949000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2.1)@0x982000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2.1)@0x960000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 2067076628375
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver          2.0 (addr 0xf8f000, size 0x12288) - last unloaded 107701731049
loaded kexts:
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp          4.1.4
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt          4.1.4
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB          4.1.4
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv          4.1.4
foo.tun          1.0
foo.tap          1.0
com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard          5.7.2
com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower          1.5.1
com.parallels.kext.Pvsnet          3.0
com.digidesign.iokit.DigiDal          9.0.2f4
com.parallels.kext.ConnectUSB          3.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor          1.9.3d0 - last loaded 34573898813
com.apple.filesystems.autofs          2.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA          2.0.5f14
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient          3.5.7
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl          1.0.20
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC          1.57
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor          3.0.1d2
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros          423.19.10
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X          7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver          1.1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMeromProfile          19
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin          4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC          1.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight          170.0.46
com.apple.kext.AppleSMCLMU          1.5.2d10
com.apple.GeForce          6.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad          201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver          201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard          201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController          303.8
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient          2.6.8
com.apple.BootCache          31.1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib          1.0.0d1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage          1.6.4
com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2          3.2.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager          160.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub          4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort          2.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA          2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI          4.7.3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI          4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI          4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM          1.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC          1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET          1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons          1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS          1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC          1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC          1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient          142.6.0
com.apple.security.sandbox          1
com.apple.security.quarantine          0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall          2.1.14
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement          142.6.0
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib          2.0.5f14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction          17
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction          10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction          14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction          10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction          10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction          20
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family          311.1
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP          2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface          74.2
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager          2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily          10.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily          1.8.3fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib          1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController          2.0.5f14
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily          2.0.5f14
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily          41
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily          4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert          1.0.1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC          3.1.0d5
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal          6.3.6
com.apple.NVDAResman          6.3.6
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport          2.2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily          2.2.1
com.apple.driver.CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController          2.4.5f3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController          2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily          2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver          4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub          4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite          3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice          2.6.8
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily          1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily          1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily          1.6.1
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter          402.1
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport          2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily          2.6.8
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily          1.10
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient          4.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily          2.0.6
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily          2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily          4.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily          4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime          1.4.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily          1.6.6
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily          1.1
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch          1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet          6
com.apple.driver.DiskImages          289.1
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily          1.6.3
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform          1.3.6
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily          2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily          1.3.0

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