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I have a 2010 15" MacBook pro and I recently updated to Lion, and my Mac screen has been turning black after a few minutes of use every time since I up graded. I have to hold the power button to force my Mac to shutdown. Anyone having the same problem?, or any suggestions ?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
I have the exact same problem with my macbook pro (2010) after upgrading.
Just had to force restart the third time.
I also have the impression that the macbook gets hot much faster compared to snow leopard.
Perhaps it has something to do with that ..?
Same problem. Here's another thread about this "black screen" issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191083
Seems like it might be related to the NVIDIA card with our specific model of MBP. I've had the same issue about 5 times since upgrading Wednesday morning and it's totally killing me! I can't get anything done without fear of a restart because it seems to happen randomly.
No solutions found so far.
Thanks Evan, that post has a lot more viewers and apparently has catch apple'a attention! I hope they issue a fix soon ! The question is if my Mac crashes soon after booting, how will I download the patch / fix ?
I don't know exactly. Hopefully Apple will address that in some way when they offer up the patch.
For anyone not up to speed on everything, Apple has contacted a number of us in the thread I linked to above to get kernel panic logs and try to help Apple engineers narrow down the problem. They are definitely aware of the issue and seem to be working quite aggressively to get it patched.
Best of luck to everyone, hopefully no more black screen of deaths soon.
i too am having the same problem --
-- so disheartening.
happens oftentimes when waking from hibernation, and today, randomly.
email is eric@spbr.org --
I am having the same problem. I guess i should have know better than to get an upgrade on the first day...I am sure it is not related to google chrome as I have never used that browser. Seems as though when I switched to my iMac a few months ago, I have realy nothing but problems...
Having the same issue: screen seems to go black randomly, keyboard stays lit with no way to "wake" the screen. Started happening with upgrade to Lion. Stuck doing a forced reboot. Not nice. Please fix soon, it is hard to get anything done. You just never know when...
MacBook Pro; 2 process., IC i7, 2.66 GHz NVidia GeForce GT 330M
I upgraded my iMac 3.06 core 2 duo with 4g ram to Lion the other day. Now, about 2-3 times every 10 minutes or so the screen goes completely black until I move the mouse. I am doing things when this happens, it is almost like sleeping, but none of those features are turned on, and it should never go to a black screen without going to the screensaver 1st anyway - anyone have any ideas?
Same here: 27" iMAC 2010
Processor 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3
Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5670 512 MB
Sort it out apple...
Im Having the exact same issue on my Mid 2010 15" Macbook Pro
Processor : Corei7 2.88Ghz
Memory 4GB DDR3
Graphics; Nividia 330M
I am pretty sure the issue is related to the graphoncs drivers in Lion
Apple please issue a patch soon!
Hey all,
From a guy in the other post, the problem seems to be Video card related so you have to turn the card to integrated or discrete only by following the instructions bellow.I have mine in Integrated and haven't had a crash in a day. Hope this helps.
Download "gfxcardstatus" from here:
http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus
Once installed, you can switch between Discrete, Integrated or Dynamic.
Simlair problem, screen goes black at random times. Mine usually comes back after waiting from 5 - 30 seconds. Only actually crashed once.
27-inch, Late 2009
Processor 2.66 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 16 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (11A511)
I just upgraded to Lion on my 2008 Macbook Pro and I can't get anything but a black screen. Have done SMC, PRAM, etc, and talked to Apple Support this morning, and no luck. She also suggested it could be the NVIDIA issue related to Lion, and told me to take it to an Apple Store. Hopefully someone will come up with a solution before that.
I just download and changed to "integrated". Will let all know if I get more crashes.
Guys i had the same issues with the balck screen of death ever since i upgraded to lon. I couldnt run any app decently without the system crashing within minutes of opening the app. I checked my hard ware, all fine, i even tried to downgrade, but couldnt do it on a new partition...for some reason lion wouldnt let me install snow leopard on a different partition. I finally went to the genius Bar and the Genius actually did some Permission repairs, went into Disk Utility, clicked on the hard disk and then clicked on Repair permissions. It seemed to work. Now when i sync my iphone in itunes, the system doesnt crash. Still have to do a full stability test, but this is definitely some route to go from what it seems. Ram was fine.
I had one crash later after i started downloading something from the appstore..it crashed the system...seems like the storeagent process which runs in the background isnt compatible with LION...however closing the appstore solved the issue...and my computer has been running with me actively using the system for past two hours. Finally!! Such a simple solution as well 🙂
Screen goes black after upgrading to lion!
