MBP 13" Medio 2010 Lion - Graphics problem

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MBP 13" Medio 2010 Lion - Graphics problem

Hello everyone,

I am using a Macbook Pro Medio 2010 with the latest version of Lion at the moment. The video card that is included is the NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB... Anyways, since my update to Lion (and also reinstalled it) I'm having bad graphic issues... Games are glitched, freezing and such and video playback on different websites show me blocky/bugged video's. Here are some screens of the issue.

I'm not sure if the problem lies with my Lion installation, or my Graphics card died at the same time when installing Lion... Could someone help me out what to do here? Not sure if I have to send my MBP to repair or just fix it by waiting for a Lion update or downgrade to Snow Leopard.

Thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Sep 3, 2011 2:12 AM

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makukero

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Sep 3, 2011 3:52 AM in response to ricardofromzoetermeer

I have same problems with my MBP med 2010 with the Nvidia Geforce 320GM and Mac OS X (10.7.1)

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Sep 5, 2011 12:27 AM in response to ricardofromzoetermeer

I have a 2010 Macbok Pro 13" 2.4ghz, same video card as yours. Im starting to think this little computer may have the same problem as the 2007-08 17inch macbook pros did. on lion, my dock tears and there are artifacts while minimizing things and other animations. i dont think its lion because one of my games on my boot camp partition does a similar thing. but mine isnt as bad as yall's.....

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makukero

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Sep 6, 2011 2:37 AM in response to 93merc140

And what do you do to resolve your problem merc?

Thanks

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Answer 4

Sep 7, 2011 6:07 AM in response to makukero

Still having these problems, ... But I'm actually not having problems with my Bootcamp installation.

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Answer 5

Sep 7, 2011 6:13 AM in response to ricardofromzoetermeer

Have you tried downgrading to Snow Leopard, to see if the problem persists? If not, It's most likely not a hardware problem, but related to your OS. Give it a shot and come back and post the results afterwords.

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Sep 7, 2011 6:16 AM in response to Korsriddaren

Hm, I could try. Not sure yet how to downgrade, but I'll Google some guide for that.

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Sep 7, 2011 6:20 AM in response to ricardofromzoetermeer

Since it's a 2010 model, you just use the DVD:s that came with the computer.

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Answer 8

Sep 7, 2011 7:46 AM in response to Korsriddaren

Hm, Just installed a clean Snow Leopard on a new partition to test, and it's all working flawless... Seems the problem really lies with Lion. So, I could reinstall (with the discs) SL over Lion without losing all of my files and applications?

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Answer 9

Sep 7, 2011 2:38 PM in response to ricardofromzoetermeer

I would suggest you to make a full Time machine back-up first, and afterwords try to restore your new SL installation från that. If that works, you know how to proceed. Good luck! 🙂

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makukero

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Oct 15, 2011 2:35 AM in response to ricardofromzoetermeer

Still having the same problem in 10.7.2 when Apple will fix it????

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mdarse

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Nov 18, 2011 12:51 PM in response to makukero

I have the exactly same problem on my MacBook Pro 2010 13" with Lion 10.7.1 & 10.7.2... Such glitches appears only on Safari & Google Chrome (or it's only where I found them).

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StevenLu

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Nov 21, 2011 12:22 PM in response to ricardofromzoetermeer

I have the same problems like in the 2nd post. I also get them, when i use Eclipse oder iTunes. So it doesn't depends on the application you use in the moment.

I think it is a OS problem. My temperatures are at a normal level when the artifacts appear. I hope 10.7.3. will fix it. The issues also disappears when i refresh the website for example.

I look forward to a fix. It didn't happend when i used Snow Leopard...

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