Q: 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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by wonslung,

wonslung Mar 21, 2011 1:38 PM in response to Mecbook
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Mar 21, 2011 1:38 PM in response to Mecbook

lol, i just went to post my skitch of it..

lol

So far it seems to be working....i'm running the yes test and no crash.
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by L-Natural,

L-Natural Mar 21, 2011 1:39 PM in response to Rensoom
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Mar 21, 2011 1:39 PM in response to Rensoom

To add information to the topic in hopes of a speedy resolution.
Purchased a 15inch MBP new on Saturday.
Loaded Lightroom 3 and began to edit some files. Exported a single file from DNG to JPEG and the fans went crazy. All I heard was fans seemingly running at full strength. Mind you this was the exporting of one file from DNG to small 2000x2000 jpeg. As soon as the export finished the fans calmed down.
The laptop didnt lockup but I can imagine if I had itunes open playing music or some other load like photoshop open.
This is an issue that needs to be fixed.
Specs:
OS 10.6.6
2.3 GHZ Intel Core I5
4gb 1333 DDr3
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by wonslung,

wonslung Mar 21, 2011 1:39 PM in response to ideazinfinite
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Mar 21, 2011 1:39 PM in response to ideazinfinite

ideazinfinite wrote:
I just updated. Issue still persists for me on 1000 fish problem.

I don't believe this is the same issue. The chrome webgl page says it can cause hard freezes.

What about the other methods?
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by ideazinfinite,

ideazinfinite Mar 21, 2011 1:41 PM in response to wonslung
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Mar 21, 2011 1:41 PM in response to wonslung

I haven't gotten the chance to do Options 2 & 3 listed here: http://mbp-freeze.wikispaces.com/

but the Option 1 never caused the fail for me. Will try Option 1 again now...
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by SkyFoxXP,

SkyFoxXP Mar 21, 2011 1:44 PM in response to ideazinfinite
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Mar 21, 2011 1:44 PM in response to ideazinfinite

Update to 10.6.7 done.

First test : Photobooth and 8x "yes > /dev/null". It freezed before upgrade, now seems to be stable.

I'm happy right now !
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by ideazinfinite,

ideazinfinite Mar 21, 2011 1:45 PM in response to SkyFoxXP
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Mar 21, 2011 1:45 PM in response to SkyFoxXP

Thats great. If possible could you also run Method 2/3 and post results. I'm afraid I dont have access to xcode right now and can't test it.

On a side note, Method 1 never caused the crash to me, both before and after the 10.6.7 update.
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by SkyFoxXP,

SkyFoxXP Mar 21, 2011 1:48 PM in response to ideazinfinite
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Mar 21, 2011 1:48 PM in response to ideazinfinite

I'm sorry I'm a total noob to Mac and xcode stuff ! Actually I'm a Windows expert for 20 years but a Mac OS switcher for 4 days !
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by ideazinfinite,

ideazinfinite Mar 21, 2011 1:50 PM in response to SkyFoxXP
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Mar 21, 2011 1:50 PM in response to SkyFoxXP

no problem... expect someone would post it soon.
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by wonslung,

wonslung Mar 21, 2011 1:53 PM in response to ideazinfinite
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Mar 21, 2011 1:53 PM in response to ideazinfinite

I can't seem to make it crash after upgrading to 10.6.7

This has me very happy.
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by Adam Urban,

Adam Urban Mar 21, 2011 1:53 PM in response to Rensoom
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Mar 21, 2011 1:53 PM in response to Rensoom

Installing 10.6.7 now, will report back.
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by InsaneCircusSeal,

InsaneCircusSeal Mar 21, 2011 1:54 PM in response to ideazinfinite
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Mar 21, 2011 1:54 PM in response to ideazinfinite

I'm waiting to see what happens with yours, I have the same model sitting at home in a box I have yet to open!
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by ideazinfinite,

ideazinfinite Mar 21, 2011 1:55 PM in response to wonslung
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Mar 21, 2011 1:55 PM in response to wonslung

Did you try the 1000 fish aquarium test on Chrome with Integrated Graphics only enabled?

Mine still crashes (after the update that is)
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by Luke Row,

Luke Row Mar 21, 2011 1:57 PM in response to Adam Urban
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Mar 21, 2011 1:57 PM in response to Adam Urban

Yeah I'm downloading it too....... tell you if it works in "about an hour".

You realise the chrome test is a different thing entirely? It even states that it can crash systems.

Ignore that test please...

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by HUS713R ON3,

HUS713R ON3 Mar 21, 2011 1:57 PM in response to Rensoom
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Mar 21, 2011 1:57 PM in response to Rensoom

Just updated to 10.6.7 and am still having crashing. Was loading up StarCraft II with iTunes playing in the background and within seconds of logging in the graphics did their usual hard freezing act. Perplexed and annoyed.
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by digimania,

digimania Mar 21, 2011 1:58 PM in response to ideazinfinite
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Mar 21, 2011 1:58 PM in response to ideazinfinite

The fish test is flawed.

Can you force Integrated Mode and run xBench tests?

http://www.xbench.com/

Does your screen lockup with these tests?
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