Why is my MacBook Pro crashing changing to a blue screen with lines or distorted screen when I open logic or Ableton Live

Why is my MacBook Pro **crashing** changing to a blue screen with lines or distorted screen when I open logic or Ableton Live. Then I have to restart by long pressing the power button. Can somebody plz help me

What you describe sounds like a hardware issue. Unfortunately, you'll need to get that checked out by Apple. If you have an Apple Store near you, make an appointment with the Genius Bar and take the machine in for evaluation.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790
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Why does my MacBook Pro crash?

Hi! So my MacBook Pro (13 in., Late 2011) has been acting strange over the past few months... I usually am using Google Chrome and when I go to a new website, it says in the loading bar, "Loading Catch". I gets stuck doing that so I try quitting the app. Instead, it says force quit. So I press that and then the dock locks up and leaves the chrome icon magnified. I try moving my mouse around but the dock froze. I then try to turn off the computer using normal methods, all of which fail. Then I force shut it off and then restart the computer. It used to happen every so often, to very frequent, like a few times a week. I thought I fixxed the problem by using Disk Utility to repair the HDD (the only problem that it found was that the HDD thought there was less memory available than there really was, like 100 GB less). It then worked fine. A few days later, I updated to mavericks. After I updated to mavericks, I feel like my computer is running out of RAM fast, like on M.L., I always had plenty of RAM available, but with Mavericks, I seem to always have less than 1 GB (btw, I have 4 GB installed). Anyway, the hangups/crashes usually happen a day (or in a rare occasion the same day) after I play a heavy game like Minecraft, Happy Wheels, or RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. I doesn't just happen when I'm using google chrome (although it usually happens while I'm using chrome), it could be any application. The app starts to load something and it takes awhile, so i try to close and reopen the app, and then the computer freezes. So I went to talk to an apple support person on their support chat services, but my support services expired and I would have to pay $19, which I didn't want to do at all. So I came here, so I can try and get answers from here. So if someone could please help me, that would be great! Thanks!!!

Back up all data immediately as your boot drive may be failing.
This diagnostic procedure will query the log for messages that may indicate a system issue. It changes nothing, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
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syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU D|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|timed? ?o' | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the 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.
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Why does my Macbook Pro crash almost immediately when I'm offline?

My Macbook Pro (late 2007 if i'm right) crashes randomly, whether I'm using a program or not. Suddenly the whole screen freezes (I see a black mouse and not the spinning ball of death). So I'm forced to use the hard restart.
It started a while ago, when I still was using Snow Leopard. So I did a clean install, and had to buy Mountain Lion. Ever since the clean install there were 3 software updates. But still I'm having the crash problem.
After this last update to 10.8.5 I'm noticing that when I turn WiFi off it almost immediately crashes. And sometimes when I reboot I don't have the time to turn on WiFi again or it already has crashed.
Though I remember that my mac also crashed when I was using the ethernet cable and when i was using WiFi. Only now with the offline modus it seems that crashing is the only thing he can do.
This is what I already tried:
-Making a second account as administrator and start up in the safe mode: but still crashes when I go offline.
-using disk utility to veridy and repair disk permissions: all good.
-NVRAM reset
-SMC reset
I don't know what kind of information anyone needs, but:
Processor 2,2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Geheugen 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Videokaart NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 128 MB
Software OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
And my harddrive has 56 gb free right now.

Thank you for your fast answer.
Even though I don't understand the connection between working offline and my videocard I believe you because I see sometimes blocked images when something tries to load or when i scroll down, mostly in photoshop. So I'm considering buying a new computer.
I tested my harddrive a while ago and it still seemed ok. (still i back up all the important stuff constantly).
Though I wanted to ask if you know if the Nvidia is a part of my logic board. I had my logic board replaced in 2010 because of an Nvidia error. So that part isn't that old. Still I can imagine that it doesn't work well anymore with other hardware or software on my computer.

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Thanks for the response. I tried both methods with the same end result.
I'm in safe mode now. It doesnt show up as being plugged in. It worked fine when connected with the USB-I went to disk utilities and repaired the disk.
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Everytime I go on my MacBook Pro (15" late 2011) after 5 minutes the screen will appear to have white lines going through it horizontally, will have patches of white noise on the screen and will crash and make it unable to use. After a while of this it will log me out and repeat the same process when I log back in. Anyone know how to stop this from happening?

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Macbook Pro- shortly after upgrading to free software upgrade to Mavericks- 10.9.5-
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Over the last several months using Mountain Lion, I decided to completely drain my battery to reset it. I think it then goes into what is called hibernation or emergency sleep mode. I am usually unable to wake it from sleep prompting a forced resstart.
to restart, I connect the adapter and the light goes green quickly changing to amber as expected. After the restart, however, some top menu items are missing such as the wi-fi icon and the Lock Keychain icon. All third party icons display correctkly. The space is there but blank and I can access the pulldown menu by clicking in those blank areas.. When double clicking the HD icon in the Finder, no icons show on the left side any more. A restart does not fix the problem. The system then eventually destabilizes to the point that I have to restore from my Firewire external HD clone using SuperDuper. One time I did a full restore (that takes forever even with a very fast wi-fi set up) to fix the problem.
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Thank you Dale.
This article mentions that recalibration should be done every two months. I think I waited 4-6 months before doing a recalibration on purpose. Though I probably ran out the battery power before then recharging overnight (some commenters on Apple Discussions said to wait 5 hours before recharging!).
I think that my battery goes into a forced shutdown rather than true sleep. Your linked thread states that this often causes directory damage. But I ran DiskWarrior and Disk Utility immediately after the stated problems occurred. And these programs pretty much repair any directory damage. But they failed to correct the problems I listed in my original post.
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The battery is only a year old with 92.35% of its original current capacity and 537 cycles. The current charge is over 6350 at 99.47%. It will eventually go to 100%. I can run over 4 hours of normal usage on a single battery charge.
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Apple's comments in the past support the idea that recalibration improves efficiency and fixes some battery issues as they occur, but that it is not manditory to maintain the health of the battery.
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THE ISSUE:
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These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It makes no changes to your data.
Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CSeq 'n Cause: -' | tail | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}' | pbcopy
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
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.
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