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

has anyone tried the mini Display to HDMI cable?

bought one last night and connected MBP to a 32" LCD TV. it ran for about 2 hours. was using it at the max resolution of 1366x768, as well as the 1080i mode. no issues at all - yet.

will continue testing over the weekend and will update you all.

In my experience with my 2010 MBP 13", there may be days or weeks between each screen hang, so I would not declare anything solved after only a few hours testing. Mileages may vary, of course.

Yesterday and today, I have got the same problem with my new MacBook Pro (more grey than pink on the Mac monitor, and grey or green or purple on the external monitor). It appears to occur randomly, with no warning, and no correlation with usage of applications. It appears to be independent of the external monitor settings (resolution, refresh rate).

My monitor supports both dvi and vga. I have found one combination of vga adapter/cable the works without crashing. Another vga cable crashes and the one dvi adapter/cable combination I've tried so far crashes. I've come across another dvi cable that I'm going to try next.

This monitor was working fine for three years on an older MB 13" with digital adapter.

As mentioned by someone previously, i tried to download the latest updated software from apple, and it seems quite good so far~!! no more crash for me in the last two days. u guys may try , good luck 🙂

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4286

Hi!

I bought my MacBook pro 13 (2,4 Ghz, 250 GB HDD) last week. Have been running it for a week without any problems. Got the apple Displayport-DVI connecter and plugged it in to my external display and have been running it for 2 days. I updated to the latest update with the fixes related to connecting to external display. However now this evening when having my Macbook pro connected to my extrenal display, listening to spotify and using safari - the system just hanged with the exact symptom that seem to be described in this thread. Evenry thing hanged/stopped. The external display went purple and the macbook LCD display black and everything hanged. Had to restarted the system on the power-button. So unfurtunatly this latest fix does not seem to have helped the problem, atleast not for me:( Anyone else also still experience the same thing with this new update installed?

Br
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apple doesn`t have a clue how to fix our freeze problem.
so the update isn`t made for that issue.

my system collapsed 20 minutes after updating the new software (graphic update)..

well i had my MBP connected to my TV for the most part during the weekend. that's more than 24 hours. no issues.

nothing cpu, graphics or memory intensive. just watching videos via VLC/XBMC. i have not tested it on any other external display yet.

just thought i'd let you guys know. more updates to come.

done the graphic updates, didn't help at all, before it's 2-4 days interval between each hangs, now it's a day.

Same here! I use Windows XP most of the time (bootcamp) and have the same problem.
For me its white screen on the MBP, and black screen on the external monitor.

Still no solution, just been saving my work every 2 minutes.

Same problems on a brand new MacBook (+$2000!!) Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core i5.
I've tried 3 different external monitors with my brand new mini DVI to VGA ($30)
Big crash after ca. 10 min.

The software update did nothing.

Fix it Apple!

I was finally able to reproduce my problem for Apple, and I took it back in with the screen frozen. They did some quick diagnostics and still didn't find anything wrong, but the replaced the logic board anyway. I've been using it for a week and a half now without a single freeze.

I'm still not completely convinced the problem is fixed, but it certainly seems that way, and I'm getting more convinced every day. This is the longest I've ever used it with an external display and OS X 10.6.3 without a freeze. Previously the longest I went was 3 days, and most of the time it froze once a day.

(I was able to use it with 10.6.4 for an entire month without freezes, so I don't know what the deal is there. Either 10.6.4 did something to trigger it less often for me, or it was just an odd coincidence. When I was trying to reproduce the problem for Apple, I couldn't get it to happen until I downgraded to 10.6.3, so I think it really does happen more often there—at least for me.)

For those still having problems I would really recommend talking to Apple—call them or visit your Genius Bar. Even if they're not sure what to do, they might be able to fix it. It seems like most people posting in this thread had the problem fixed with a new computer or logic board replacement. Even if it does turn out to be a driver or firmware issue, the more complaints they get, the sooner it will get fixed!

i meant to ask but it seem that this problem happens to 15 inch too?

if this problem doesn't happen to 15 inch, im seriously thinking about changing into 15 inch...

Yes, the the 15" is affected too.

how about closing the macbook pro and using external display as the main display? does it still crash?

if not then temporary "solution" would be using larger external display as a main display.