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MacBook Pro 2011 17" hard freeze

Overheat? The fans revved and suddenly I could use nothing but the cursor. Had to hold down the power switch to kill all and then re-power & startup. I wasn't doing anything unusual, but I had 7 apps open and was amid an auto-backup to TimeMachine.

Just a little disillusioned and concerned, wondering if anyone else there has experienced a hard freeze like this.

macbook pro 17" 2011, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 1, 2011 11:15 AM

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Mar 21, 2011 3:59 PM in response to Rensoom

a screenshot of the type of problems i'm having from the day 3.
and still have after the update..

http://spiess.pl/lines.png

Chullo

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Mar 21, 2011 4:02 PM in response to Horniasty

Get a new one, ensure you can reproduce the issue. Trust me they'll just hand you a new one or order it if it was CTO. Sounds like you got some heating issues like me initially.

Mar 21, 2011 4:11 PM in response to telefonique

Nevermind I think I just realized the x 2 , x 4, x 8 has nothing to do with your CPU cores as running it x 8 definitely now shows 99% CPU usage in iStat readings

Mar 21, 2011 4:12 PM in response to Horniasty

If it hasn't been long go return it quick... you're covered anyways.

Chullo

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Mar 21, 2011 4:13 PM in response to telefonique

@telefonique, your 2 cores is actually 4 because of hyper threading, so 2 isn't a workout for it. You can also select 8, and it'll allocate 2 threads per core and load balance.

Chullo

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Mar 21, 2011 4:14 PM in response to Andrew Preece

@ Andrew, nice to hear that man. To confirm....your computer used to fail the smallluxgpu, but not after the update?

Mar 21, 2011 4:17 PM in response to shishlik

for most (if its safe to say) the update fixes the issue.

Mar 21, 2011 4:18 PM in response to Andrew Preece

@ Andrew Preece - AGREED! Killing myself for returning mine just a few hours ago! I wish they would have mentioned that they were working on it!!

shishlik

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Mar 21, 2011 4:18 PM in response to ideazinfinite

Thank GODDDDDDDDD

mb852

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Mar 21, 2011 4:27 PM in response to Rensoom

Some people report the issue being fixed and others say they are still experiencing issues?

....did the update fix the freezing or not?

Mar 21, 2011 4:28 PM in response to HUS713R ON3

This is as close to stock as your going to get. Its more expensive than the G.Skill on newegg but at least your guaranteed that it will work.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/AppleMacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade/DDR3_1333MHzSDRAM

shishlik

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Mar 21, 2011 4:29 PM in response to mb852

I have the exact question.

shishlik

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Mar 21, 2011 4:35 PM in response to ideazinfinite

I'm a little relieved now .thanks 😀

Mar 21, 2011 5:41 PM in response to Horniasty

I now get what you meant,
there were no glitches/artifacts during the console phase

JWay5929

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Mar 21, 2011 5:53 PM in response to Rensoom

All,

I think 10.6.7 fixed the issue.... at least for me.

2011 15" 2.2Ghz 8GB 6570M 256SSD (10.6.7)

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