Random display freeze, with strange colors and screeching noises
True story. My (totally new) MacBook freezes 3-4 times a day, with lots weird colors and screeching noises. I've added photos of this phenomena on Flickr, here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photomaton/3433889119/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photomaton/3434685366/
Couple of stuff about this machine:
- Sometimes the noises are muted; but the images speak for themselves.
- I installed 4GB memory. It was done by a pro.
- This mostly happens when I connect an external display and/or use VMWare. But it also happens from time to time, with no external display, and no VMWare running.
Help.
Please: Help.
so the problem lies with the graphics card or the RAM? because i had a ram upgrade to 4gb ram as well.
my mac went for 3 days w/o error until today and i opened up the console and this the error i saw.
4/15/09 10:06:41 PM quicklookd[102] EXCEPTION CPZEndOfCentralDirectoryError: Could not find the end of central directory record
4/15/09 10:06:41 PM quicklookd[102] EXCEPTION CPZEndOfCentralDirectoryError: Could not find the end of central directory record
4/15/09 10:06:41 PM quicklookd[102] EXCEPTION CPZEndOfCentralDirectoryError: Could not find the end of central directory record
4/15/09 10:06:41 PM quicklookd[102] * +[NSCalendarDate iso8601DateWithString:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0xa0686ce0
4/15/09 10:06:41 PM quicklookd[102] EXCEPTION NSInvalidArgumentException: * +[NSCalendarDate iso8601DateWithString:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0xa0686ce0
anyone got any idea wad it means? and yeah my mac screeches like a banshee
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