MBP13‘3 and External Monitor Problem (screen goes pink/ laptop hangs)

That is great news, that Apple is now aware of the issue and doing something. Please report here when you have heard from Apple.

I will check again with my Apple representative if they are aware of the issue as well.

Great! Let us know what your person says. And if you or anyone else talks with Apple Care, you may find it useful to refer them to this thread. I did that with the first person I spoke with and immediately got bumped up to a senior adviser.

I have an MBP that we got in July 2010 which also has this problem. I have Windows 7 on a BootCamp which has almost no software installed on and that exhibited exactly the same problem - so looking more than likely hardware or firmware - I think it is unlikely that both the WIn7 drivers AND SnowLeopard drivers exhibit exactly the same problem...

However, I am seeing a pattern - I have a bunch of monitors that I am trying and, so far I have tried a brand new Samsung 1920x1200 and a newish HP 1920x1200 which both cause the crash. But at the moment I am on a 17" HP (1280x1024) without the problem so maybe it is related to the total number of pixels. Maybe bus bandwidth or memory usage - going to test a couple more and see where that goes...

Ronnie

HP 2310i (1920x1080) seems fine so far - going to go back to the 1920x1200 HP w2448hc to check...

HP w2448hc (1920x1200) fails almost immediately. What seems interesting is that it doesn't matter how long the monitor is plugged in - it seems to be related to how long the laptop has been running so I winder if there is some service that gets started after some time looking at the displays...

Anyway - running the 1920x1200 monitor at 1280x1024 seems fine so it definitely seems to be a bandwidth issue!

what a crap..
i`ll test my monitor on low resolution tonight. i had also the thought that it only collapses on high resolution. we will see.
but this pretty sounds like a hardware issue. every 5 year old graphic card is probably better than the 320m in the macbook pro.

it seems that you are right!
putting down the pixels on my external eizo (21") from 1600x1200 to 1280x1024 - and i`m without freeze since hours.
can anybody try this too?

The only screen mine seems to work with is a DELL 2005FPW on 1680x1050 pixels.

My external monitor is a Dell, 17", but it was running at 1280 x 1024 and still crashing. However, I lowered the resolution today to 1024 x 768 and after about six hours, no crashes so far...

same to me. putting down res of my eizo and i`m 2 days without crash.
but anyway, can`t work on low res.

I've got a 13" MacbookPro 7,1 that's exhibiting the same pink screen + hang issues. Looking at the logs, it's definitely some sort of Nvidia issue, as the exact same time that I get the hang, I get this in my system log:

kernel NVDA(OpenGL): Channel timeout!

This log entry has been reported in many other threads, and even for older MBPs. I hope Apple figures out some sort of software/firmware fix ASAP. As an aspiring Apple developer, giving them my computer for 7 days isn't exactly convenient.

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Hey gang, just incase you didn't notice, Apple released a graphics update for SL today: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1083

I've installed it and haven't had problems yet, but given the somewhat random timing of the hangs, I'm not declaring it fixed…yet.

Good luck!

No dice, I'm still getting hangs. sigh

Just to update: With both lower screen resolution and today's update, I still got a green screen today.

Glad to come across this thread. I didn't realize at first that it appears to be a problem with using an external monitor. In my case the MBP screen goes black and the external monitor goes white.

My monitor supports both dvi and vga. The older MB had a digital adapter but I had only vga for the new MBP. Using it required a different cable, of course. Today I have been using the computer with the same adapter but a different vga cable. So far (1 hour) no crashes. I'm going to get a dvi adapter to try that next since the "good" vga cable is borrowed.