My Macbook Pro keeps freezing. Help!

Didn't anyone read the answer to the original post? It is most likely a hardware fault. The simplest and fastest solution is to take it to your local Apple fixer and get it fixed.

A hardware fault that is perfectly timed with an upgrade to Mountain Lion. Yeah, right.

What are you talking about? I started this thread in May.

Anyway, Apple checks the hardware for free. You only pay money if they have to fix something, so your best bet is to take it to them to scan the thing for faults. It's a lot faster than waiting for the magical thread to tell you how to fix it. Or even worse, wait for Apple to admit their latest OS causes a freeze. Believe me, I've been there. It ain't goin to happen dude.

I have a MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel core i5. bought it about 2 weeks ago. i am seriously regreting updating it. it was perfect before the update. now it freezes, battery life is not as before, some apps dont open, and it is running really slow. we should really get an update to this. we spent money and we want a response. me and all the apple users..

Are you running the machine on Wifi all the time?

Try connecting to via ethernet (tha means sitting next to an ethernet port - not preferable), just to see if this makes any difference. I've seen some posts and reada couple of articles about ML hanging Applications due to a Wifi issue.

I am no trying it out. Please let me know if this helps.

Cheers,

Listen up people, take you mbp to apple tell them its problem TS4088 they will test the the graphic card and motherboard. Test takes about 30 minutes may or may not find any issue on the first try tell them to check it again if the test fails insit because if the test passes then it is a chipset issue covered by Apple on mid 2010 MBP's. Then pray it wont take 8-11 days to fix.

I've had ML on ethernet all day and no crashes on Mail or Safari. I did delete the mail preferences. So, it may have been that too.

I'm about to try Wifi and hopefully everything will be smooth going again.

I turned on Wifi and apps all hung.

I forced shut the MBP and rebooted. Turned Wifi off and proceeeded to remove internetconfig.plist files and internetconfigpriv.plist files.

I found internetconfigpriv.plist with extra characters added:

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.0Bh7Jyh

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.7fomeqs

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.7mnxyBl

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.DJ4KXiC

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.DNw23tP

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.f6VG9ET

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.lockfile

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.oRf6OQH

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.SwIP3tp

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.upPOH9O

file://localhost/Users/user/.Trash/com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist.YrxEFqB

I removed my user of course. But these files were a little weird. My Wifi connection seemes to have settled since removing these.

Okay, I got my logic board replaced today and to the service center's surprise the machine wouldn't boot still! when they changed the SSD with an apple hdd it booted fine. they tried several different apple hdds, it booted fine each time. so it seels the issue was with my ssd. i took a decision to install mountain lion in my original hdd and see if it worked. note, before the logic board change neither of then worked.

when i can home i removed the ssd and put it in my external usb sata 2 case. i tried to boot it from the usb drive to just see if it worked there, before going on installing my bundled hdd and installing ml in it. miraculouslyit worked!!!!

now i also have the bundled hdd installed in my machine and ml running on it. there has been no problem. i'll check this for a few days and also check the ssd via usb.

Add me to the list. I have a 2009 MacBook pro core duo 2.93 and after installing lion I a getting the color wheel cursor every few hours. The only fix is a hard reset via the powerbutton. I have reinstalled everything. It doesn't help.

are u on an ssd as well?

I have a Seagate Momentus XT 750GB 7200rpm 32MB 2.5" SATA SSD Laptop HD (ST750LX003). Also, I learned that if I turned on my hardware accelerated graphics through the power management function under system preferences I reduced the frequency of this lock up from once every 2 hours to once every 2 days.

Same problm here with the Mountain Lion10.8.1. Everything was working fine until recently about 2 days ago, after every restart it simply freezes within 10 secs tops. Sometimes it freezes with the apple icon while trying to restart, sometimes I only get the white screen with no apple logo and sometimes the apple logo wud disappear depicting that it is not able to display the apple icon. Everytime I have to hard reboot. I have not had the chance to take a backup of my Mac. But I cannot let this data go away. Anychance anyone can help ?

I recently went to the Apple store to get my DVD drive fixed and unfortunately now I do not even have the warranty. My mac is a mid-2009 Macbook Pro.

Please need real urgent help. I am stuck and need my laptop for all my work.

i guess this calls for somekind of lawsuit on apple. this is a major problem. i got my logic board replaced under warranty but was asked not to put the ssd back in! my $250 ssd lies waste.

apple shoudl recall units. this and iphone 4 's home button issue. my replaced iphone 4 is acting whack again!

I want to confirm what CarbonMac said above. I just updated to 10.8.1 and today I have the exact SAME problem. My MBP would not let me log in, it's stuck with the SBBOD at the login screen. Sometimes it lets me in, but then it freezes right away. However, I can log in in Safe Boot. So I'm currently backing up my files via time machine.

I have tried just about everything that I found online regarding to SBBOD. Nothing worked. I even reinstall my OSX.

I do have SSD, Crucial M4 to be exact. I updated its firmware because I read somewhere that it has been a cause for some SBBOD, but that did not work either.

I'm currently abroad overseas, and I am out of idea. Any help? I do have my original HDD with me, I might have to switch back for the time being.