Repeated screen freeze

My ipod nano 6th gen repeatedly freezes. To be precise: while I'm playing something, the screen becomes unresponsive. If I'm listening to a podcast, and I listen to the end, the thing shuts off. Then if I click the power button twice (I have it set to pause/play rather than next song) it will start a song shuffle. But if I want to do anything else, I'm SOL.
Sometimes doing a reboot (power + volume down) helps, sometimes not. And when I do the reboot, the battery drains by about 45% each time, so I can only try it twice before the thing just dies altogether.
This is the third nano I've had, and the second with this problem. Apple seriously needs to work on their software!

Hi,
Sorry you're having problems installing Flash Player, but thank you for the detailed explanation of what's going on and what you've tried. The following help pages outline common troubleshooting steps for Flash Player installation. I suspect you've tried most of them but If you're unable to install using the online installers (which you've currently been using) we also provide "stand alone" versions of our installers towards the bottom of the page. These stand alone installers will most likely resolve this problem for you.
Windows - http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html
Mac - http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-mac.html
Thanks,
Chris

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Repeated installation freeze (with screen shots)--suggestions?

I have an ongoing issue with Flash installation. Running Windows 7 64bit on a Lenovo T410. Ancient junker, but doing alright other than this Flash issue. The Chrome integrated flash is fully operational. The issue is installation for Firefox 34.0.5 (most recent, though the issue began with a previous version and is on-going), which I prefer.
I download the appropriate and most up-to-date Version:
It downloads, I click run and approve the administrator right to modify.
Nothing new here. The issue is the following:
Flash Installer opens to a blank screen:
It will remain blank for hours. It will not close, though the minimize to toolbar is functional. The only way to stop the process is through Task Manager. This results in a confirm end-process warning.
The installer then closes immediately and I'm back to square one. I've attempted install dozens of times. I've uninstalled Firefox, downloaded through Chrome or IE, etc. No luck. It freezes every time. This blank screen freeze has been on-going for months...every couple weeks I get bugged by Chrome and go back to trying to figure out the issue. I've run the full uninstall on previous versions multiple times. I've restarted before/after uninstall, running the download, etc dozens of times.
The only oddity that I see if the install download always has "32" in the title and this is a 64 bit OS. But I don't know enough of the difference to know if that matters and this is the download recommended by Adobe for the OS and browser.
All help appreciated. If you need further information, I'm happy to provide it (though if it's anything complex, please provide a step-by-step).
Thanks!

Hi,
Sorry you're having problems installing Flash Player, but thank you for the detailed explanation of what's going on and what you've tried. The following help pages outline common troubleshooting steps for Flash Player installation. I suspect you've tried most of them but If you're unable to install using the online installers (which you've currently been using) we also provide "stand alone" versions of our installers towards the bottom of the page. These stand alone installers will most likely resolve this problem for you.
Windows - http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html
Mac - http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-mac.html
Thanks,
Chris

Mountain lion screen freeze

Since I downloaded Mountain Lion OS 10.8, my screen freezes constantly. I wish I had never downloaded this "upgrade." Need solution ASAP becasue this puts me out of business.

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
If you have an optical drive, make sure there is no disc in it.
Launch the Console 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 Console in the page that opens.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Post the messages logged during the time something abnormal was happening. That time might be before or after the boot.
For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutes after the boot time, not before. If the problem is a system crash or shutdown failure, post the messages from before the boot time, when the system was about to crash or was failing to shut down. In either case, please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning or the end of the log extract.
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

Screen freezing randomly.

Tried verify and repair disk, or permission. Reinstalled mountain lion and using migrate from my time machine backup. Nothing happen, still screen freeze randomly and the mac just crashes.
Spec of my mac:
-early 2011 macbook pro 15"
-2.2 Ghz I7
-AMD 6750 1gb
-OS X 10.8.3 (12D78)
After every time forced shut down (holding power), found these line from console repeating massively times:
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: Trying restart GPU ...
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: AMDTurksGraphicsAccelerator: bad busy count (255,1)
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: Backtrace 0xffffff8008e2c048 0xffffff8008e2bf54 0xffffff7f8a5d74e7 0xffffff7f8a5cb0ac 0xffffff7f8a5cbe15 0xffffff7f8a5d0c42 0xffffff7f8a5e9411
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily(30.14)[8CAD17E4-8359-3015-BCFC-F1964357CBFE ]@0xffffff7f8a5c5000->0xffffff7f8a60ffff
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f89044000
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[38C214C0-83C8-3594-8A4C-DC6AC3FEC163]@0xff ffff7f89e92000
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[74E3E50F-E50A-3073-8C96-06F854292A91]@0 xffffff7f89ddf000
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: GPU Hang State = 0x00000000
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: GPU hang: Not Implemented
4/3/13 7:58:45.000 PM kernel[0]: Trying restart GPU ...
Hope someone can tell me what happen, have no trouble using and playing games on the bootcamp which is operated by Win 7 64bit.

a logic board change
Ouch - thank you very much for the update.
I've got the same model MacBook Pro8,2 (early 2011) and an AMD Radeon HD 6750.

Screen Freezes but Mouse Still Moves

Hey I have an iMac with a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors and I am running OS 10.6.7 and my screen freezes (sometimes goes to a black screen or many lines repeated) but my mouse is still able to move, then I have to shut down manually with the power button to reboot. It happens mostly when I am gaming with games such as starcraft 2 but sometimes with Word or Safari.
I have cleared my cache, vacuumed my computer, reinstalled OS X, tried regulating the temperature with smcfan but nothing works. I also took it to futureshop on my warranty and they couldnt help me, nor could multiple Mac Phoneline assistants.
Any solutions?

I added some Crucial Ram to my late '07 iMac (Aluminum, 20", 2.4 ghz),
Apple did some warranty work on it for me, a year or so ago, but.
I jumped up the Ram from 2-4. It's only showing 3 Gb's now.
And, the fans were ALL running at Full Speed! Wow, vacuumed my desk!
Anyway, I came here, and was advised to do several things, but the one that worked,
was 'Resetting the System Managements Controller" SMC.
1 Shut down the computer.
2 Uplug the computer's power cord.
3 Wait fifteen seconds. (HMM, what couldja do?)
4 Attache computer's power cord.
5 Press the power button, to turn computer back on.
I heard a high pitched 'Chong', (Higher than the start up sound), then, the start up sound.
Now, I'm in my comfort zone again!
Dam, if that didn't work wonderfully?!!!
It did!
I hope that this may work for you!
Be well.
PS btw, I still can't get my 2nd stick of Ram to work.
I'm still working on that.
And, my third, Western Dig, 2 TB external HD!
What's with these third party suppliers?
They suck!
Apple has to bring some control back in!
I bought the WD @ a Mac Store, (Cherry Hill, NJ)
The Memory, through Amazon.
Grrrrrrrr!
Hope this works for you, let us know, OK?
Pete

Firefox can't open normally without going through the "this is embarrassing" routine; nor does it close down properly; it also sticks frequently, i.e. screen freezes for a minute or more; should I uninstall and re-install to try and debug?

Firefox can't open normally without going through the "this is embarrassing" routine; nor does it close down properly; I get the "end program" message and have to say "end now"it also sticks frequently, i.e. screen freezes for a minute or more; should I uninstall and re-install to try and debug?
- I've used Firefox exclusively for around 2 years.
- My outlook express has no problems
- other programs seem unaffected; it seems peculiar to Firefox.
- my main use is surfing the net, primarily entering competitions on line via specialist competition sites.
- every day at some stage(s) I have to switch computer off as Firefox has got very slow/sticky/freezes.
I'm not techy by any means, but I can only thing of un- and re-installing to hopefully start with a clean slate.

Sounds like something is keeping Firefox from closing properly. See this: <br />
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+hangs#Hang_at_exit

When I go to a website, it half-way downloads and then the screen freezes for 10-20 seconds while ads appear; this never happened till recently.

Until recently, I loved Firefox. Lately, when I go to any website and try to download a page, the screen freezes for between 10-20 seconds while ads load. Why the screen freezes is both frustrating and annoying. I have the latest version, nothing on my computer is different, and as I said, it didn't used to do this. Any ideas what's going on?

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/latest-firefox-issues
If you have submitted Breakpad crash reports then post the IDs of one or more Breakpad crash reports (bp-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx). You can find the IDs of the submitted crash reports on the about:crashes page. You can open the about:crashes page via the location bar, like you open a website.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad (Mozilla Crash Reporter)
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Mozilla+Crash+Reporter
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report

Someone please help me! I live in Turkey and bought my iMac desktop in February. The dealer kept the recovery discs and won't send them. My screen freezes seconds after opening and I can't figure out how to repair it myself. Please help!

I was deleting photos when the screen froze and I had to shut down the computer manually. Now after the first minute of being turned on the screen freezes and the mouse arrow goes into that rainbow whirling disc and won't stop no matter how long I let it go. My keyboard is Turkish. My keys are not marked the same as an English one is, further complicating resolving the problem.
The dealer I bought it from doesn't speak English and wants to charge me for repairs. I refuse to pack the computer up and ship it UPS out of town for a repair I can do plus pay for shipping.
When I received my computer I was only given the manual and no system restore discs for situations such as this. I asked where they were and was told there were none.
I suspect this is a tactic to make money on bogus tech repairs off their customers. To purchase new discs, if I can find them, can cost from $30-$40 - the dealer more than likely is re-selling the discs at 100% profit. This is Cizgili Apple Store in Adana, Turkey. I wish to report them. It is a national company too. I don't have a receipt handy, but have an emailed receipt. I can't get my computer's number to get further assistance on the Apple website withput it.
I was a dedicated Windows customer until I started doing desk top publishing. I'm fighting the urge not to regret buying this computer.

1-800-676-2775 apple support tech support 1 800 275 2273
If your computer is on one minute before it freezes, than you have one minute to secure your serial number.
click the apple----->click about this Mac ------> click on version----> until you see the serial number. You may have to do this a couple of times if it freezes before you have all the numbers. A camera might help.
Good Luck

Mac Pro Screen Freezing Issue with NVIDIA 8800 GT too

There were lots of entry in threads, where the screen freezing issue was described (disorted screen with strange lines, only reboot helps). Nearly all cases seem to be related to the ATI 2600 card.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1358062&tstart=30
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1365277&tstart=0
I opened this new thread to show, that this problems occurs not only for the ATI card but for the NVIDIA 8800 card, too.
My MacPro was delivered 8 days ago and was running without any problems. But all of a sudden, I got that screen freeze. And it wasn't the first time, I was heavely working 2-3 hours with that computer.
In total, 2 screen freezes showed on my computer. The first one during working with the computer. The second one during booting into MacOS X. The screen freeze occured during the boot phase with the grey screen and the spinning wheel.
My configuration:
MacPro 2.8, Dual Quad Core
6 GB RAM
3 harddisks, 1 standard from Apple, 2 Samsung with 750GB
MacOS 10.5.2
Formac 20" Monitor
Perhaps others have this problem, too? Than we should emphasize, that this is not an ATI related problem.

I've actually been having the freezing issue for a while now but I didn't have the know-how to troubleshoot it (PC tech trying to support the only Mac lab in the building).
MacPro will freeze randomly (no trend in time, system strain, or open programs). The mouse will operate but will not interact with anything.
Specs:
MacPro - Model 1,1
Dual Core Xeon 2.66
2gb RAM
nVidia GeForce 7300 GT
Mac OS 10.4.11
The machine always has 2 displays connected to it so the workaround that was discussed for the ATI 2600 doesn't apply. I had 1 display connected here in my shop and it froze for that as well.
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My tx is so slow, the web cam is not working, the screen freezes and got color distortions

- My tx is so slow, and heats up very fast... so i think that the advance is not working properly
- the web cam is not working, since the 3th time iused... when i try to use it with my msn... got freezed, then y try ending the process and doesnt work, y have to restart it but it stay just on logging off... and do nothing more... so i have to switch off directly from the power button
- The screen freezes... some thimes the screen got freezed... and got color distortions too... so i have to to switch off again directly from the power button
i was thinking that it was a software problem... but i restore my lap and it doesnt work cuz it still being with the same problems... so lately im thinking that its a hardware problem... i call to technical support from mexico... but they can do nothing for me cuz i bought my lap at circuitcity from el paso... and that store close a few months ago... so i need help before de warrantie expires...
This is the second time that my lap gives me problems, last time I made the change at the store but this time it will be impossible cuz is now closed...
that is why I seek your help...
i will be grateful if you answer in Spanish because my English is not very good...
thankyou so much...

If your warranty has not yet run out get it serviced, now! All of the comments seem to indicate that it is the motherboard>

BLACK SCREEN on start up with 3 beeps, FREEZES when power unplugged, IF IT BOOTS splash screen freezes, OVERHEATING REQUIRED TO BOOT - 0x7B, Event 41 kernel-power

Issue: One day I unplug the power, the screen freezes and I get frozen music sound. I shut down, start up, I get 3 beeps (1 short 2 long), which indicates a Video failure according to the Thinkpad Laptop beep code list.
How I solve the issue day-to-day: I turn the heat up - I disconnect the battery and hard drive and plug in the power then turn it on. I will wait until the underneath is searing hot with a blanket blocking the fan's flow of air, I mean way hot because any
cooler and it won't start. Plug stuff back in, Hard drive first, Battery second, turn off with power button hold, unplug power, replug power.
I turn it on, no beeps, it goes past the first Lenovo screen, then gives me a prompt because it "didn't shut down properly" and continue regular startup. What happens next is the Windows logo appears,
and just as the animated windows logo starts to move (you see 2 small colored dots on the screen), it freezes. I see this every time, I know naturally that it means that the laptop is still too hot to go past that point, so I shut it down and try again. After
about 5 - 10 tries it will go past the splash screen and into the login area, then it's all fine.
Sometimes when I unplug the power from the back by accident it will freeze. By accident I mean that the connector wiggles it's self out easily. This unplug freezing thing started happening about 1 week before the 3 beep black screen problem started rolling,
so I'm putting 2 together.
Errors:
I got a Blue Screen of Death the first time I started it up with the overheating ritual, but I never got it since. It was 0X7B.
I got another Blue Screen of Death about a week ago, but came as it was on already and I had been using it, and said something about disabling Cache or Shadowing in BIOS. I never got it since.
Event Viewer events found:
1. Kernel-Power, Summary page.
There are critical events for a few things like Kernel-Power, Event ID 41, Task Category (63). There are 19 of them, each day 1 or 2 of them but mostly 1, so this maybe corresponds to my daily ritual.
"The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly."
2. Kernel-Processor-Power - Event ID 37, task category (7)
"The speed of processor 1 in group 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 71 seconds since the last report."
3. LMS - HCMI - Event ID 2, Task Category: none
"LMS Service cannot connect to HECI driver".
I came across a very sluggish performing control panel for Nvidia before and after this problem, and I tried installing a newer version, which I had to jump through a few hoops to do, like uninstalling first, not just updating. At first it said that the
driver wasnt for the system, which was wrong. I made it work somehow, but it was still sluggish. I rolled it back to an earlier driver, and now it works fine. No sluggish performance / slight freeze window thing going on.
MSCONFIG.exe, Boot Advanced Options: I have tried twice to change this 1 setting, check box "Number of processors" and change to 2 processors, because I do have 2 processors. I have been able to change
this in the past, but it does not save the setting now, and I believe this option was selected before I started having problems, and settings did not disappear then.
What could this be. The small round BIOS battery? The video card like everyone presumes? (I.E. the entire motherboard replacement), Software? The wiggly power input area? (Not enough power getting in?), Firmware of some sort? The BIOS software being wrong?
SYSTEM INFO:
Thinkpad T61p 6457-A24, Intel core 2 duo (T7700) 2.4GHz, Intel 120GB SSD 6Gb/s, NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M (256 MB),
Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium (6.1, Build 7601), BIOS Ver 1.00PARTTBLx
Display: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit 60 Hz), Integrated RAMDAC, Main driver: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2,
Version 8.17.12.9688, Date 5/31/2012, DDI version 10, Driver model WDDM 1.1
Please excuse the small text at the beginning, there isn't an option to un-do that error.

You are very wrong about that mystified. What do YOU think made my computer work without beeping at all hu? (I bet you're gonna tell me). I figured it out.
RE-INSTALL WINDOWS 7 OS.
SOLVED.
DOESN'T BEEP ANY MORE.
THAT IS A PART OF microsoft ISN'T IT.
::: EGO KILLER 9000 :::

I just got my Mac Pro repaired from Apple but I am experiencing the same issue: Screen freezes and shows funny rectangular bars. I shut it down manually and when I try to turn it back on it beeps 3 times. I know its the RAM but is there a way I can fix it

I just got my Mac Pro repaired from Apple but I am experiencing the same issue: Screen freezes and shows funny rectangular bars. I shut it down manually and when I try to turn it back on it beeps 3 times. I know its the RAM but is there a way I can fix it

If you just got it back and it isn't fixed or something else is wrong with it take it back and have them do the repair correctly.

Repeated computer 'freezing'. Is hard drive failing on my MacBook Pro 2006?

Over the past two weeks my computer has been 'freezing'; with increasing frequency. The entire screen freezes with the exception of the cursor - when moving it around the screen it highlights and unhighlights text. The only way to escape is to turn off the computer using the power button. The time between freezing events varies from 5 to 60 minutes or so. Is the hard drive beginning to fail? Or, is this some other issue?

Thanks for the advice. Is using Disk Utility from the OSX installation disc more helpful than what I did prior to posting my question here?>>>From Disk Utility on my computer I ran in this sequence: Verify Disk (no issues), Verify Disk Permissions (several issues listed - don't understand any of it) and finally Repair Disk Permissions (no issues listed after performing this).
Thanks.

How can I fix problem of Screen freezing in Fullscreen view display.

Click Vie , Full Screen. Have multiple tabs open. Screen freezes. Prompting does not drop the tabs back down to switch pages etc. Happens randomly, several times a day, since upgrade to Firefix 9. Prior to that I never had an issue with the Full screen feature and used it ALL the time. Please help.I do not want to lose this feature!!!

Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
Try to disable hardware acceleration.
*Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
If disabling hardware acceleration works then check if there is an update available for your graphics display driver.

While using Skype on my mac pro the screen freezes and splits in two and the left hand side shifts to the right and the right shifts to the left with a large black block down the centre, should I take it back to store as it is only a month old??

I have only had my mac one month and it seems while I use Skype the screen freezes and I cant click on anything and everything on the right hand side of the screen shifts to the left and the left to the right with a back block down the centre and sometimes lines running down the screen over all. As it is almost brand new should I be going back to store to get this problem fixed??

Yes. You are still under warranty. Why waste it?

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