Q: MacBook Pro (2010) Freeze

totally agree. i've been wondering if this might be a migration assistant issue for a while. i have always avoided it and started fresh and so far avoided any issues. it would be great if all the people that are reporting problems would mention if they used MA, have SSD's, have Windows installed, etc. Also, how many are on 220v?

MacBookPro 17" High Glossy Anti Glare, OSX 10.6.4, 8GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, iCore7
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit in BootCamp Partition.

In OSX: freezing couple times a day
In Windows: freezing couple time a day

Number of repairs: two so far ..., wait for getting it back, repost then

I have a definite reproducible Kernel Panic upon waking from extended sleep. Some times the screen will not light, other times the screen will light and then paint the gray screen of death from top to bottom.

I doubt it is a hardware problem. I guess it could be the architecture but my machine passed the Extended Hardware test. And I didn't have a KPs the first few days that I was just getting to know the new machine prior to MA. I doubt Flash also. We have a perfectly functioning Intel iMac with Flash and Unity installed (migrated with MA also but from a G5 - go figure).

I am definitely inclined to think this is a Migration Assistant created problem with legacy PPC code polluting my System. I did find MA created a 2nd system folder named System Folder which was my old System Folder from my PBG4 - deleted it yesterday. I'll bet there are some sloppy codes that were, still are referring to that previous conflicting, now deleted system folder.

Is archive and install still an option in 10.6? I would hate to erase my drive again and manually migrate everything.

Pardon my ignorance but it would appear that this option does not exist for the 13" MBP but I do have the option of unchecking "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible". Gonna try that myself and head out for the day and see how it goes when I wake the baby.

HI all
You can contact with apple here...

mrakitzis@support.teleperformance.gr (very kind and help)

They will send you a capture data for your computer and they check it
Hope it helps you!!
Cheers

i had these constant dark grey screen freezes that told me to shut down, i was puzzled and tried many things suggested here like Turning off auto switching, repair disk, disk permissions, installed onyx for maintenance, stopped using safari..phew! long list,,
but it has stopped freezing now..dont know wat has helped but it has. lets hope this was just some minor issue.

I was going to buy a MBP tomorrow but good thing I did a bit more research. Of course, I'm not buying a product with unresolved glitches that so many people are complaining about. I was extremely happy with the mac mini I bought 1.5 years ago so this was the last thing I was expecting.

My guess is these issue are caused by the nvidia graphics card. I have an Asus M50 with 9500M GS that started overheating and eventually freeze on any heavy GPU activity. There was a class action lawsuit nvidia lost recently on these overheating junk cards so I'm guessing they're still at it.

Solved my kernel panics for now by reinstalling 10.6.3 from factory disks. No kp in 3 days, wakes from overnight sleep.

I believe, as stated before, that Migration Assistant caused my issue.

We'll see what happens with updates one per day at a time.

Great to hear!
Has anyone who did a migration and had problems reinstalled the system without doing migration assistance afterwards and had the same problem come back?

Great to hear!

Has anyone who did a migration and had problems reinstalled the system without doing migration assistance afterwards and had the same problem come back?<<

Yes... I had a kernel panic about two days after I did that. I still hold onto my theory that Flash 10.1 is the culprit, since upgrading to the 10.2 beta, I have had no problems and no kernel panics for over a month, whereas before with 10.1 installed, they were happening at least once a week.

Now, Flash being a huge memory hog, that's another issue, but I won't get into that here...

I am running Flash 10.1r85 which does not seem to be causing me problems.
Couldn't find the 10.2 beta which I looked for after your last post.

MBP withOUT panics = very nice machine - excellent replacement for best machine ever for me - 12PBG4

At the bottom of this page, there's a link marked "Download Adobe Flash Player 10.2.161.23".

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/4783/adobe-flash-player

I have a MBP 13" (April 2010). I just bought it and it's been just less than two months. The macbook's already frozen up three times in two months. The mouse doesn't work and the keyboard doesn't either. I have to use the power up button to force a restart by holding it for a couple of seconds. I don't know if its a hardware or software problem. But I'm not doing anything special. Just browsing internet, not watching video, no audio, and no games. Just checking email and the computer freezes up completely.

If I had known about these issues, I wouldn't have bought a MBP. I'll try contacting Apple Care support. I hope I can return it if possible.

Yes I did that. Had the trackpad freezing problem twice afterwards with just Mac OS X installed. However, since then no trouble for one week now, so that I migrated only my documents folder so far, and loaded Ilife and iwork. Until so far no issues. I will go on uploading software step by step now, and hope and pray....

actionjack84 wrote:
I believe, as stated before, that Migration Assistant caused my issue.

I've seen a number of kernel extensions that create problems with Snow Leopard, for instance old Parallels versions, old EyeTV versions and I think also drawing tablet drivers.

It's a shame you can't tell Migration Assistant to simply ignore system extensions. On one of the machines where I had these problems, I had to manually find several kext's installed by Parallels in /System/Library/Extensions and delete them.

Edit: What I also don't understand is why Apple removed the "Archive and install" option from Snow Leopard, which was quite useful if you suspected that you might have old extensions making havoc.

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