Q: MacBook Pro (2010) Freeze

hey guys I have a question. If this problems is caused by the graphics card switching from discrete to integrated why does this occur on the 13" Macbook pro??? doesn't the 13" have integrated only???????

If yes, then why would this model freeze on me also

Am I getting something wrong??

please correct my right away

It's because of the drivers. Most of us just need the 10.6.4 updated with newer drivers.

I filed a bug on this (same problem as original poster), and got a response from Apple Engineering this afternoon:

"Try removing some of the apps or utilities, such as Speedit, which attempt to use undocumented and unsupported APIs to get information no longer supported on newer CPUs."

Didn't realize I was running this kext, but apparently it was installed as part of a temperature-monitoring program I'd downloaded. Curious to know if others are also running this kext. To find out, open a Terminal window and type:

kextstat | grep speededit

I also removed a related kext, BRESINKx86Monitoring.kext

Removed speededit with:
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/speededit.kext

Moved BRESINKx86Monitoring.kext to my Desktop with:
sudo mv /Library/StartupItems/BRESINKx86Monitoring ~/Desktop/

Finally, I've been hesitant to remove VMWare Fusion since I use it quite a bit. Are there people having this issue who DON'T use Fusion? If so, I'll assume that it's not the cause of the problem.

I don't have either of those kext's installed. I do have Fusion installed, but I had the freezing issue long before Fusion was installed.

Macbook Pro 15" i7, 8GB

I don't have those either and don't have fusion installed. (but do have parallels) Still have the lockups every couple days. Although I haven't had them all week with being forced to intel graphics.

so the drivers for the nvidia chip (320) is what is causing it then?

Yes, it's probably a driver issue for about 90% of the people having graphics problems. There's obviously that small percentage that do have bad hardware, but personally I have not experienced any issues at all while my 2.4 i5 has been running with normal usage, I've only experienced issues on boot up and when waking from deep sleep / battery calibration.

Keep in mind that other people have been experiencing issues that are on older MBP's, iMacs, Mac Pro's ect.. 10.6.3 / drivers are likely the issue for most. I would like to hear from someone that has had these graphic issues with 10.6.3 and then installed the 10.6.4 beta.

I've had about half a dozen freezes in the month I have had my new MBP. Once it was a Grey Screen but the rest the screen just freezes (once I could move my mouse). It seems to be random (not running the same SW). I have a 15" with iCore 7 and 8 GB RAM.

Has anyone noticed their hard drive making whirring noises? If I just slightly move my laptop while it's on, it will cause the hard drive to give a short low whir (as if the HD was shaken too hard). It happens more often than my whole CPU freezing though.

yes, I hear this same noise on the same situations you describe. I thought it was a system to prevent data loss from moving HD needle (is the a needle on the HD? : P) even softly.

Somehow, it feels that I am getting more of those freezes when the laptop is not connected to an external monitor. Also, the last handful of freezes had some additional artifacts. See:

http://twitpic.com/1u9cuv
http://twitpic.com/1u9cuz
http://twitpic.com/1u9cv0

Alex

I am wondering if the new MBPs being shipped still have this issue. I want to purchase one however I am reluctant by the fact that it may have this same issue. If you purchased a MBP within last week. How is it working?
Thanks!

Mine (15" 2.4Ghz i5) was delivered on 5/28, so 8 days ago. No freezes yet. It arrived with a 320GB Hitachi hard drive.

Purchased 14 days ago - first freeze was on day eight.

13" macbook pro

My replacement machine has no issues. The original one had the nvidia freeze issue w/ artifacts. So unless they loaded different drivers on the new one, I doubt it is a driver issue.

Message was edited by: BigCat400

My i7 17' MBP arrived on June 1. So far no freezes.

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: MBP61.0057.B09
SMC Version (system): 1.57f17
Serial Number (system): C02....
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

Intel 5 Series Chipset:

Vendor: Intel
Product: 5 Series Chipset
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 1.5 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.30 Supported

ST9500420ASG:

Capacity: 500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model: ST9500420ASG
Revision: 0008APM2

Intel HD Graphics:

Chipset Model: Intel HD Graphics
Type: GPU
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 288 MB
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x0046
Revision ID: 0x0018
gMux Version: 1.9.22

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M:

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0a29
Revision ID: 0x00a2
ROM Revision: 3540
gMux Version: 1.9.22