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Brand new mac book air keeps crashing

128gb 13 inch mac book air, 3 days old keeps crashing. Happening every 5 minutes now. Trackpad suddenly becomes unresponsive, music or video if playing also gets stuck and crashes. Only way to resolve is by turning on and off, but crashing now becoming more frequent.


Any thoughts on how to fix this? Will ring apple on Monday but need the unit I work tomorrow so I can do some work


Thanks

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jun 16, 2012 7:09 PM

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Jun 26, 2012 5:04 PM in response to markbrads

If you are like almost all the others affected your machine has Google Chrome installed on it. If that assumption is correct the issue is clearly is a Chrome problem and not an Apple issue. If you are not using Chrome well OK I'm wrong.


However PLEASE read the Terms of Use you agreed to, had you you would have known Apple does not read or participate in these forums. If you have feedback for them the proper venue is www.apple.com/feedback

Jun 27, 2012 9:39 AM in response to rkaufmann87

Yes Rkaufmann I probably have no clue. If you're happy with faulty software being able to crash your computer then there is no point in me trying to convince you that it's not normal. Go ask Google for a fix. Why are you even on this thread?


As for the others, I have been on and off with Apple care since yesterday, they had me do all the Level 0 stuff, resetting NVram, checking that there is no problem with SSD, etc etc. So far they are saying that I am the first person to contact them with this issue.


Anyways, I am definitely losing patience talking to Level zeros, hopefully they will escalate my ticket to someone who will take ownership of the problem.


They asked me to reproduce the problem with Chrome and I am unable to. I have even opened several tabs with flash movies running and there is no crash.


On the other hand, I can reproduce the Itunes / Ipod syncing crash consistently within minutes of starting Itunes.


Keep you posted.


BB

Jun 27, 2012 9:49 AM in response to Bartek Bulzak

Sure its not Chrome. I will rather return MBA than give up Chrome. I've been using Chrome since day one I got this MBA a week ago. Just need to recollect what I was doing that caused my first and only crash so far. Will try connect my iPod in iTuens and let you guys know. I think Apple tested this machine vigorously before releasing it ... or are we the one running the tests for Apple? Seems we all overestimate Apple.

Jun 27, 2012 10:04 AM in response to Bartek Bulzak

Last week I was called from Apple. I never asked for their help, I believe they are reading what we post here. He made me pres command+shift+option+control+. and a screen folder called tmp appeared. He told me to mail him that because the engineers told him to gather this files from many users. My Chrome hasn't crashed for the last week, but when I play Diablo 3 it always freezes. I believe it's a problem with the Intel HD 4000 driver.

Jun 27, 2012 12:02 PM in response to Bartek Bulzak

You are for sure not the only person to contact them about this issue. I've found that it is best to contact them while you are experiencing a lock up or a kernel panic. I've talked to them twice and we've done the following:


* Reset SMC

* Reset NVRAM

* Disk verify

* Disk repair

* Remove startup items


The last tech said if it crashes again they will send me up to higher level support guys. Not once did they ask me to submit a crash dump which shows com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD4000Graphics in the first line of the backtrace.


Sounds like the HD4000 driver to me! In this case it was triggered by vmware-vmx, not by Chrome. Although I have been in Chrome when the issue hit as well. Again, common thread: com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD4000Graphics.


I also have the upgrade RAM to 8 gigs. Maybe it isrelated to the HD4000 + 8 gigs of RAM?


13" MacBook Pro (mid-2012)

2.0 GHz, 8 gigs RAM, 256 gigs SSD

Brand new mac book air keeps crashing

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