Q: Frequent Panic NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100

I'll save everyone some time. I was experiencing the exact same thing. I reinstalled, reformated, deleted, etc. etc. and it still occured. The problem is hardware. I went into the Apple Store and they tried reloading, shortly after that it kernel panicked, I wrote down the kernel panick message with the NVRM and they acknowledged it to be a hardware problem. They initially thought RAM.. I told them it's the logic board After they performed diagnostics they identified it as a faulty logic board. It has since been replaced and been a solid two weeks without any issues. It's a hardware thing, doing all of these hacks isn't going to fix your problem.

Hello everyone!

I have had the same problem for several months now. Here is my latest crash report:

Interval Since Last Panic Report:  134380 sec

Panics Since Last Report:          15

Anonymous UUID:                    3B7DCF1F-2976-4DF4-A431-2FBBB37AE096

Sun Aug 28 22:44:01 2011

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f809522bf): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xc0000000 0xffffff8115698000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff8129b0b2b0 : 0xffffff8000220702

0xffffff8129b0b330 : 0xffffff7f809522bf

0xffffff8129b0b3c0 : 0xffffff7f80a423fc

0xffffff8129b0b410 : 0xffffff7f80a424bc

0xffffff8129b0b470 : 0xffffff7f80cec749

0xffffff8129b0b5b0 : 0xffffff7f80a61519

0xffffff8129b0b5e0 : 0xffffff7f8095bc4a

0xffffff8129b0b690 : 0xffffff7f8095754c

0xffffff8129b0b880 : 0xffffff7f80959151

0xffffff8129b0b960 : 0xffffff7f817cc008

0xffffff8129b0b9a0 : 0xffffff7f817dae06

0xffffff8129b0b9c0 : 0xffffff7f817f66d4

0xffffff8129b0ba00 : 0xffffff7f817f6739

0xffffff8129b0ba40 : 0xffffff7f817dec51

0xffffff8129b0ba90 : 0xffffff7f81796753

0xffffff8129b0bb10 : 0xffffff7f817951c4

0xffffff8129b0bb40 : 0xffffff7f8179abfd

0xffffff8129b0bb70 : 0xffffff80006524ad

0xffffff8129b0bbe0 : 0xffffff800065284c

0xffffff8129b0bc40 : 0xffffff8000652ff0

0xffffff8129b0bd80 : 0xffffff80002a3738

0xffffff8129b0be80 : 0xffffff8000222ff6

0xffffff8129b0beb0 : 0xffffff8000214829

0xffffff8129b0bf10 : 0xffffff800021bb58

0xffffff8129b0bf70 : 0xffffff80002ae380

0xffffff8129b0bfb0 : 0xffffff80002d83a3

      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

         com.apple.NVDAResman(7.0.2)[7E65ECA2-D3A1-35F8-B845-C975FB531E7E]@0xffffff7f808 f2000->0xffffff7f80bc8fff

            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)[95ABB490-3AB5-3D5E-9C21-67089A9AE6A1]@0xffff ff7f8087e000

            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3)[E99C8907-946D-3F1A-A261-4C0F2D5D0451]@0xffff ff7f808e0000

            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3)[897EB322-FD55-36D7-A68E-9E9C34A74A84]@0xf fffff7f808a8000

         com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(7.0.2)[2E84958C-1EEC-316B-9F7A-68C368F83476]@0xffffff7 f80bc9000->0xffffff7f80eeafff

            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(7.0.2)[7E65ECA2-D3A1-35F8-B845-C975FB531E7E]@0xffffff7f808 f2000

         com.apple.GeForce(7.0.2)[18E50F21-1E7F-3FFE-B298-7CD7A11879F8]@0xffffff7f8177d0 00->0xffffff7f81839fff

            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(7.0.2)[7E65ECA2-D3A1-35F8-B845-C975FB531E7E]@0xffffff7f808 f2000

            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3)[E99C8907-946D-3F1A-A261-4C0F2D5D0451]@0xffff ff7f808e0000

            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)[95ABB490-3AB5-3D5E-9C21-67089A9AE6A1]@0xffff ff7f8087e000

            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3)[897EB322-FD55-36D7-A68E-9E9C34A74A84]@0xf fffff7f808a8000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer

Mac OS version:

11A511

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Sat Jun 18 12:56:35 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.73~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 24CC17EB-30B0-3F6C-907F-1A9B2057AF78

System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 925946469594

last loaded kext at 814804720162: com.apple.filesystems.smbfs          1.7.0 (addr 0xffffff7f8078d000, size 241664)

last unloaded kext at 154022452417: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI          4.4.0 (addr 0xffffff7f810cd000, size 65536)

loaded kexts:

com.apple.filesystems.smbfs          1.7.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor          1.9.4d0

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver          122

com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient          3.5.9

com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl          1.0.24

com.apple.driver.AppleHDA          2.1.1f11

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver          2.1.1f11

com.apple.driver.AGPM          100.12.40

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics          7.0.2

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB          7.0.2

com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor          3.0.1d2

com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC          1.59

com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet          1.0.0d1

com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X          7.0.0

com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver          1.2.0

com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU          2.0.1d2

com.apple.GeForce          7.0.2

com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin          4.7.0b2

com.apple.driver.AppleLPC          1.5.1

com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl          3.0.8

com.apple.filesystems.autofs          3.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons          220.8

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader          3.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard          220.8

com.apple.driver.AppleIRController          309

com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient          3.0.0

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless          1.0.0d1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib          1.0.0d1

com.apple.BootCache          32

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage          2.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub          4.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI          4.8.6

com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331          500.20.6

com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet          3.0.6b9

com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM          1.5.0

com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort          2.1.8

com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager          161.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI          4.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons          1.4

com.apple.driver.AppleRTC          1.4

com.apple.driver.AppleHPET          1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS          1.7

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC          1.4

com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC          1.5

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient          166.0.0

com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall          3.0.30

com.apple.security.quarantine          1

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement          166.0.0

com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib          2.1.1f11

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController          1.0.10d0

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface          80.0

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager          2.5f17

com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily          10.0.5

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP          2.2.3

com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily          1.8.3fc11

com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib          1.3

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController          2.1.1f11

com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily          2.1.1f11

com.apple.driver.AppleSMC          3.1.1d2

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily          4.7.0b2

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI          1.0.10d0

com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl          3.0.8

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert          1.0.3

com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal          7.0.2

com.apple.NVDAResman          7.0.2

com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport          2.3

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily          2.3

com.apple.kext.triggers          1.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice          3.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass          3.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch          220.23

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver          4.4.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice          3.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily          1.6

com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily          1.6

com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily          1.7

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub          4.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite          3.9.0

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI          2.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily          3.0.0

com.apple.driver.XsanFilter          403

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient          4.4.0

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily          4.4.3

com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family          400.40

com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController          1.0.0d5

com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily          2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily          2.0.6

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily          4.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime          1.5.0

com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily          1.7.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily          1.1

com.apple.security.sandbox          165

com.apple.kext.AppleMatch          1.0.0d1

com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet          7

com.apple.driver.DiskImages          326

com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily          1.7

com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore          28.18

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform          1.4

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily          2.6.5

com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily          1.4

Model: MacBookPro6,2, BootROM MBP61.0057.B0C, 2 processors, Intel Core i7, 2.66 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 1.58f15

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, PCIe, 512 MB

Graphics: Intel HD Graphics, Intel HD Graphics, Built-In, 288 MB

Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x31364A53463531323634485A2D3147314431

Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x31364A53463531323634485A2D3147314431

AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x93), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.100.98.75.6)

Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1

Serial ATA Device: ST9500325ASG, 500.11 GB

Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898

USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424  (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfa100000 / 2

USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0236, 0xfa120000 / 4

USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, apple_vendor_id, 0x8403, 0xfa130000 / 3

USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424  (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfd100000 / 2

USB Device: Built-in iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8507, 0xfd110000 / 4

USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd120000 / 3

Btw, is there any way to install a different, more powerful, graphics card to the MBP? I would like one anyway so I can play Civ V like it was meant to be played.

No

to keep you in the loop: after beeing able to show it to my local reseller they had it sent to their technician and I got a call today. They are replacing the logic board. Apple will not pay for it (16 months old MacBook Pro Mid 2010 i7). Luckily I got an extended warranty from my reseller - let's see if they find a working logic board.

Agreed - I did everything Apple Care told me to do on the phone. After 5 days of phone support I aggreed to bring it to Apple.

They are replacing my logicboard for free.

I am out of waranty by almost three months by the way. They are still fixing it for free though - Yah Apple - so they should.

I first reported a similar problem after doing one of the Snow Leopard upgrades. I took it to Apple back then while it was still in warranty but they 'couldn't find anything wrong'. I ended up finding on the internet a fix by switching off automatic graphics swithching. Any way it was mostly fine from then on until my upgrade to Lion.

Boom - problem back again with avengance. Frequent black screens. Occuring at all differnet times and during different task - intensive or not, hot or cold. There was no picking it. Mainly during using Final Cut Pro though!

I reported it Apple by phone and went through the motions as stated at the begining of this thread.

If this has started happening to you after you Lion upgrade and your computer is now out of warranty. You still have three months phone support from the time of your Lion purchase. Use it, report it to Apple. Stay polite with Apple and maybe suggest to them this appears be a hardware issue by all accounts of what you 'have read on the internet'.

I hope you have as much success as getting Apple to take ownership.

A solution that worked for me. I make no guarantees that doing what I did will fix your problem I'm just reporting what worked for me.

I've had the same problem with my MBP, the screen would just go black and the system would be unresponsive. Following a restart I'd be presented with the panic/NVRM error message like the one posted by francois-vda. This would usually but not exclusively happen when watching videos or doing other GPU intensive tasks. Based on posts in this thread I expected that the logic board was damaged, however when ran the Apple Service Diagnostic reported no hardware problems.

I checked the temps and fan speeds while doing some benchmarks/stress testing and although they were on the high side they did not exceed the allowed maximums. Having previous experience with Apple computers and heat issues I had a strong suspicion of what the problem might be but could not confirm it without opening the computer and taking out the logic board. After disassembly and removal of the heat sink my suspicions were confirmed the heat sink paste/grease/compound has been improperly applied to the heat sink and the CPU/GPU underneath, an absolutely insane amount of paste has been used completely encasing both cores in a dried up mess.

I cleaned up the old heat sink paste and applied a thin layer of a new compound to the top of the CPU and the GPU. I've been using the computer for the past 4 days(including about 12 hours of continues stress testing) and the panic/nvrm problem has not reoccurred.

I found another working solution (until lion): I got a usb-to-dvi graphiccard-adapter from DisplayLink (it work OK on the external display, Samsung syncmaster T260, not as fast and cristalsharp as the NVIDIA but its OK) and with gfxCardstatus I force the Mac to use integrated only. Not a crash in two days so I thought Lion.......boom, boom, boom, 8 panics before I even got to the loginscreen. It seems that the Mac use NVIDIA during bootsequence and gfxCardstatus kicks in after you login, but then it's been stable for some hours.

Here are some useful links for the MBookProUser-fix:

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody-Mid-2010-Logic-Board-Rep lacement/3097/1

and

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Applying-Thermal-Paste/744/1

I'll try that now!

So back again, they change the logic board twice.
the first one got an bad Nvidia Chip, the second one was also crapy and brocken out of the box, now i got a working on installed and for now it works fine...
They told me that it is a heat - bad Chip - bad logic bord problem ...

So let´s wait until the next VJ Show ...  Hope the new chip can stand it ...

Been battling with this problem for more then 5 weeks now. Logic board has been replaced by Apple twice, problem resurfaces within about 2hrs of use. Tested with known working memory and OS, no external hardware... just about everything that myself and the techs at the Apple store can think of. The guys i've been dealing with clearly havent seen this problem before and are as stumped as I am when it comes to putting a finger on the exact cause. Taking it back to Apple tomorrow after speaking to the store manager - I'm hoping they have some process they can pursue for escalating problems like this, getting these kernal panic reports in front of sombody who has the knowlage/resorces to interpret them beyond what is obvious would be a start.

I replaced the heat sink paste (it was an adequate amount, se http://www.anst.uu.se/gustmoge/mbp-logic.jpg), but with no luck, still crashes in boot-sequence(lion).  So I'm back on 10.6.8 now and will stay there until this hardware issue is fixed.

IMHO I think that apple made a major design fault, there are large air outlets but incoming air inlet is very small is placed next to the outlet. OK the air expands somewhat when the temperature rises but that much? And the warm air goes back into the mashine.  You should drill some holes in the front (or right under the fans) of the unibody!

It would be nice to have a comment from apple-tech or ndivia!

Woah - it's been years since I mounted a CPU heatsink, but that looks like way too much thermal paste.   As I understood it, that can be a very bad thing - potentially interfering with the heatsink's ability to properly conduct heat.

Admittedly, I'm unfamiliar with actual physics involved and the actual type of thermal compound used here - anyone with more knowledge in this area, please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Gustav - If you're willing to disassemble the unit once more, you might consider removing the excess.

Some possibly relevant info:

iFixit's Guide to Applying Thermal Paste:

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Applying-Thermal-Paste/744/1

Arctic Silver's Surface Spread technique for mobile i7 chips

http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appmeth/int/ss/intel_app_method_surface_spread_v 1.1.pdf

Oh and thanks for posting the pic - I've been having similar issues & was curious to see what might be the cause.

@gustav.mogensen That is not an adequate amount, that's way too much thermal paste.

Update: I'm sad to report that I experienced another crash, a first one since re-applying the paste around 10 days ago. In conclusion it seams that removing and re-applying the thermal paste has "helped" the situation as the crashes aren't as frequent but it has not fixed it.

It would be nice to see someone from Apple respond to this thread and let us know if this issue is at least being investigated.

Just to let you guys know that my exact same mid 2010 6,2 i7 2.66GHz MacBook Pro (with the nVidia 330M 512MB chip) is having the exact same problems.

I'm still running 10.6.8 - I didn't have any issues until recently. I've had 4 panics in the last 2 days all with references to the graphics chip - googling snippets of the report brought me here.

Same here.

15" mid 2010, 2.8GHz i7
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB

Running 10.7.1 (11B26)

Every few days since the Lion upgrade on August 15

panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff7f809522bf): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x0061022c: