Q: Lion randomly crashes - black screen

Does anyone know if it's possible to upgrade to the AMD card in the mid 2010 model and get rid of the NVIDIA 330M?  I'm guessing no, but I thought I'd ask.

after upgrading my mbp to 10.7.2 beta 11C48 the problem is still there. My computer crashes everytime I try to open Reeder, or when I try to export photos from aperture, or uploading files with transmit... the same issues I had with 10.7.1...

I don't what is Apple waiting for, but right now I have a 2000$ computer which is useless, i can't do anything whit it whitout crashing everytime... I can't understand...

for now I'm going back to SL, but that is not the solution...

I finally gave up and i was in the service last week. The SSD failure was not the solution. They will replace my logic board. I am out of warranty, so the logic board will cost 860 USD. (130000 HUF + 25% tax)

To be honst, if you are still in warranty, you can do whatever they want. Bu if you are out of warranty, I think you should at least wait for 10.7.2 and try it first before you spend $ 860. It's not worth it.

Well, following from the call from **** on Saturday, I downloaded and installed the beta mentioned a few pages back, still got constant BSOD while trying to use it, if I leave it alone its ok....

So on Sunday after being sick of a sick PC and after I did both a time machine backup and also a manual backup of my user folder onto a different external hard drive I bit the bullet and rolled back to Snow Leopard... and STILL I have constant BSODs, something that happened once in a blue moon before I upgraded.

I did notice though that the average temp of the CPU and GPU are lower in Snow Leopard than in Lion, so aimlessly wondering if the temps have been too high for too long and now the chips are buggered, so to speak...

Any thoughts. Even on Snow Leopard I have a 4k NZD machine thats basically useless.... which I would expect to happen with HP but not Apple.... ditto goes for the smarmy arse senior advisor..

Interesting:

«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 wonder if Apple knows about this; they have not claimed to know of the BSOD or any other matter posted here.

If this is a common problem then whatever Apple saved by moving their manufacturing facilities to China may be offset by the increased cost of a lot of motherboards being replaced, plus the uncalculable expense of poor customer satisfaction.

Poor quality and poor reliability is what knocked Dell from the #1 PC position. The news media posted sutdies of certain Dell models with over 80% failure rate at 2 years, which certainly did not help their product sales. I wonder what the MacBook Pro failure rate is.

Can now officially say that 11C48 doesn't fix the problem.

MBP 2011 same issue...noticed that when restarting a few things:

1. spotlight always starts to re-index

2. Mail almost always says problem restoring windows

3. Happens even with gfx on integrated AND smartsleep used to put machine to sleep

hope this helps someone with the search for the answer to this problem

I have the same problem with my MacBook Pro 15'' mid-2010 (i7 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM, GT330M). I brought it to Apple Store (CambridgeSide, Cambridge, MA) on last Friday and have just gotten a phone call :

"Hi. This is the apple store. I'm calling to inform you that we need additional parts to fix your computer.And we have placed the order for the mother board and that should arrive either on Tuesday or Wednesday and then we can continue working on your computer. So what will be a few more daysuntil the 6th, but we will call you as soon as it's done. Thank you so much and have a great day."

Seem that I will get a mainboard replacement. But my Mac is about 10 days of warranty, hope that they will do it for free :-s

i have the same problem like yours. I had the crash problem already on SL, then wanne try if the Lion resolve the crash. Unfortunately the CRASH is still there.

Hi,

MacBook Pro 2010

MacBookPro 6,2

Intel Core i5

2,4 GHz

4 Go

Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

Black screen here too with 10.7.2 (11C48) without doing anything particular, just surfing on Safari (Version 5.1 (7534.49))

I'm surprised. It seems like they've been working on fixing a couple of things in several components of the system (AirPort,GraphicsDrivers, Mac App Store, Spotlight, Time Machine) in the previous build: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/26/apple-pushes-new-os-x-icloud-iphoto-builds-to-dev elopers/

I've encountered the BSOD only when coming back from sleep/screen saver. But I've also been plagued by many weird bugs, all of them being system bugs it seems. Like, the AirPort icon won't change when I choose to turn the service off (or should I say it would take several minutes before it's taken into account). Also, very frequently apps seem unable to launch a "pop up finder" window when I need to open a file from inside an app for instance, leading the app to crash. I've also had trouble trying to launch the Mac App Store a couple of times. Even worse, I can't perform a Time Machine Backup on my NAS since August 28 (I haven't tweaked anything in the NAS prefs). I don't remember having installed any big updates coming from Apple or having installed any new App that runs in the backgroung. Very weird that these bugs started to screw my computer two weeks ago when I'd been using Lion during a month without any issue.

Also, I've noticed that I'm unable to "relaunch" the Finder when it crashes (I forgot to mention this ; it can happen during various types of requests such as copy/paste for instance). Given what I've said in the previous paragraph I suspect there's something here...

BTW, I encountered no problem while playing GTA III / GTA San Andreas while leaving the computer decide dynamically which graphic processor should be used.

Its a joke ... it must be a joke!

I have made a downgrad to SL and suprise,suprise the BSOD is still in the system. It cames not at the PhotoBooth->Effects Site or by connecting a Server with Transmit but when im going into the configuration from thunderbird->accountConfiguration->serverConfiguration->connectionSecurity and klick at the dropdown menu ... bang BSOD.

With the integrated GPU ... everting works fine.

The joke is, that before i had installed lion i worked with thunderbird and have zero problems.

sorry about my terrible english.

Apple has replaced my logic board and ram (still under warranty) and it has fixed the problem.