Mid 2010 MacBook Pro kernel panics

Hi Alder,

Thanks for your comment. This panic also happens with clean install.

Hey van Asperen,

I just had a conversation with the AppleCareHotLine... He informed me that the repair center where I left my MB could not reproduce the error I reported (even though they could see all the entries in the log).

He said me that it can be caused by a number of things (3th softwares, harddisk, memory, board)

Well again, the person adviced me again to reinstall Mountain Lion from zero, but now in a external disk ... to try to isolate the problem. I left my computer in the repair center during one week... when they were supposed to test everything... It is hard for us to expend our time doing what they were supposed to do...

Yeah, it is strange story... and very annoying. I'm leaving this computer to a different repaircenter. Lets see whats happening ... a trip to Rotterdam is not discarted 😉

Best,

T

If you have ONLY Apple kernel extensions, such as after a clean Install and before adding and third-party software, this error:

from your kernel panic:

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f8b888c85): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error

Indicates a Hardware problem caused by a graphics chip failure.

With third-party drivers added, it is not clear what is causing the problem. ¿Is it the third-party drivers?

Hi Alder,

Really great having someone in the chat with better knowlegde than all authorized technicians I talked with....

I have Mountain Lion installed from zero (clean partitioned disk). Than, supposedly there is no 3-th part drivers installed. The last error contains exactly what you cited, please have a look... Anyhow ... I'm leaving this computer in the repair center again...

Sincerely,

Tomas

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file://localhost/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2012-08-19-232211_Tomass- MacBook-Pro.panic

Size: 8 KB (7519 bytes)

Last Modified: 8/19/12 11:22 PM

Recent Contents: Sun Aug 19 23:22:11 2012

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f97961c85): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff812b239000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4

Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff81070e3260 : 0xffffff801721d5f6

0xffffff81070e32d0 : 0xffffff7f97961c85

0xffffff81070e3360 : 0xffffff7f97a5b5b7

0xffffff81070e33c0 : 0xffffff7f97a5b62b

0xffffff81070e3430 : 0xffffff7f97d70883

0xffffff81070e3570 : 0xffffff7f97a8175d

0xffffff81070e35a0 : 0xffffff7f9796b9e6

0xffffff81070e3650 : 0xffffff7f979670b8

0xffffff81070e3840 : 0xffffff7f97968bea

0xffffff81070e3920 : 0xffffff7f989be5d5

0xffffff81070e3960 : 0xffffff7f989d3447

0xffffff81070e3980 : 0xffffff7f989f22c3

0xffffff81070e39c0 : 0xffffff7f989f2321

0xffffff81070e3a00 : 0xffffff7f989d8c13

0xffffff81070e3a50 : 0xffffff7f98993112

0xffffff81070e3ae0 : 0xffffff7f9898ef72

0xffffff81070e3b10 : 0xffffff7f9898cb2f

0xffffff81070e3b40 : 0xffffff8017663e23

0xffffff81070e3bc0 : 0xffffff8017665eb3

0xffffff81070e3c20 : 0xffffff80176638ef

0xffffff81070e3d70 : 0xffffff80172981a1

0xffffff81070e3e80 : 0xffffff8017220abd

0xffffff81070e3eb0 : 0xffffff8017210448

0xffffff81070e3f00 : 0xffffff80172195fb

0xffffff81070e3f70 : 0xffffff80172a5ad6

0xffffff81070e3fb0 : 0xffffff80172ced13

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0)[6A699209-FB98-316B-A3C0-DCA82AA8C86B]@0xffffff7f978fa 000->0xffffff7f97bfcfff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7)[8C9E06A4-13D0-33F5-A377-9E36F0ECC229]@0xffffff 7f9786f000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.4)[E37F420A-B5CD-38ED-9441-5247583B6ACE]@0xff ffff7f978e6000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.4)[5D671681-D21B-3CCA-9810-B15E648C1B27]@0 xffffff7f978a3000

com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(8.0)[9CD95A4A-FD94-349E-A4B6-FC3B74E197F5]@0xffffff7f9 7c0a000->0xffffff7f97f2cfff

dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[6A699209-FB98-316B-A3C0-DCA82AA8C86B]@0xffffff7f978 fa000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7)[8C9E06A4-13D0-33F5-A377-9E36F0ECC229]@0xffffff 7f9786f000

com.apple.GeForce(8.0)[91C40470-82BA-329A-A9D7-4C70F28275FD]@0xffffff7f98974000 ->0xffffff7f98a36fff

dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[6A699209-FB98-316B-A3C0-DCA82AA8C86B]@0xffffff7f978 fa000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.4)[E37F420A-B5CD-38ED-9441-5247583B6ACE]@0xff ffff7f978e6000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7)[8C9E06A4-13D0-33F5-A377-9E36F0ECC229]@0xffffff 7f9786f000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.4)[5D671681-D21B-3CCA-9810-B15E648C1B27]@0 xffffff7f978a3000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer

Mac OS version:

12A269

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 12.0.0: Sun Jun 24 23:00:16 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.7.9~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 8D5F8EF3-9D12-384B-8070-EF2A49C45D24

Kernel slide: 0x0000000017000000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff8017200000

System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 6435114331261

last loaded kext at 5723125027612: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.8 (addr 0xffffff7f995a6000, size 65536)

last unloaded kext at 5816385112132: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.8 (addr 0xffffff7f995a6000, size 57344)

loaded kexts:

com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0

com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.0.9f8

com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60

com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.12.69

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 122

com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.3.0f2

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 2.3.0f2

com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1

com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0

com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.2.6

com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU 2.0.2d0

com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.10

com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl 3.2.6

com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.33

com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f8

com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.6.0

com.apple.GeForce 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.2d6

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons 235.4

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 235.4

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 3.1.0

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1

com.apple.BootCache 34

com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 320.15

com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.1

com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.2.0

com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331 600.15.20

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 5.1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.9.5

com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.4.0

com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet 3.2.5b3

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 5.1.5

com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.6.1

com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.5

com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 161.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.7

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.9

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 196.0.0

com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 4.0.39

com.apple.security.quarantine 2

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 196.0.0

com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.6

com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.3.0f2

com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.9fc9

com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.6

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 86.0.2

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.0.9f8

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.5

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.3.0f2

com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.3.0f2

com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.2.6

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.4

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.10d0

com.apple.iokit.AppleBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f8

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.10d0

com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 8.0.0

com.apple.NVDAResman 8.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.4

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.4

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.2.0d16

com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.3d11

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch 235.7

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 3.5.1

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass 3.5.0

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 5.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 5.1.5

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 5.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.5.1

com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.7

com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7.1

com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7.1

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 2.5.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.5.1

com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 500.15

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.5.5

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 5.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController 1.0.2b1

com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.0

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 5.1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.6.1

com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.8.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1

com.apple.security.sandbox 220

com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1

com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7

com.apple.driver.DiskImages 344

com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.8

com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 28.18

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.6

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.7

com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4

com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0

That kernel panic is showing the error that correlates with graphics chip failure:

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f97961c85): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error

Later in the panic log, under this heading, non-Apple kexts are listed FIRST, and your listing now shows none as you said.

last loaded kext at 5723125027612: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.8

last unloaded kext at 5816385112132: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.8

loaded kexts:

com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0

When you send your Mac in with lots of third-party stuff installed, the service center needs to find time to do a "clean install" first, to prove that the problem occurs under Mac OS X alone. This also can make some customers angry because they (foolishly) may not have adequate backups and wiping the drive may wipe out their only copy of their data. That does not excuse their inaction, but may help explain why they could not quickly resolve the problem.

I understand perfectly what you say, Mr Alder. I proceded exactly as recommended.

It seems that the crash is trigged when any load on the graphic card is required. With me, sometimes the simple fact of swipe the finger to call MissionControl is enought to get the BlackScreen. It looks like a Russian Rollet ...

And against Hardware problem (if is that what's happening) is hard to fight with ... We count only with all other customers that are complaining of the same problem... People should understand that customers just want to do their own work without being annoyded.

Hi Mr. van Asperen,

Just to give you an info about the end of the story.

I finally got the problem fixed: Logic board replaced. So far no crashes.

Best

Oh ! How good is to use a Mac without the fear that the thing can crash at any moment !

Can someone please help me out with this?

Wed Feb 6 17:38:52 2013

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f8616bb25): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff81193bd000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff80f63fb7e0 : 0xffffff8005a1d626

0xffffff80f63fb850 : 0xffffff7f8616bb25

0xffffff80f63fb8e0 : 0xffffff7f862654b3

0xffffff80f63fb940 : 0xffffff7f86265527

0xffffff80f63fb9b0 : 0xffffff7f8657a853

0xffffff80f63fbaf0 : 0xffffff7f8628b659

0xffffff80f63fbb20 : 0xffffff7f861758da

0xffffff80f63fbbd0 : 0xffffff7f86170fac

0xffffff80f63fbdc0 : 0xffffff7f861729ba

0xffffff80f63fbea0 : 0xffffff7f861061c4

0xffffff80f63fbef0 : 0xffffff7f87c1671f

0xffffff80f63fbf40 : 0xffffff7f87c158e7

0xffffff80f63fbf60 : 0xffffff8005a3dcde

0xffffff80f63fbfb0 : 0xffffff8005ab26b7

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f86104 000->0xffffff7f86406fff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f86072000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f860f0000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f860ad000

com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(8.0)[9F3D09B5-3158-3D9E-BDA3-E71576AAD3B7]@0xffffff7f8 6414000->0xffffff7f86736fff

dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f861 04000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f86072000

com.apple.driver.AGPM(100.12.69)[FBC949AC-F94D-39CD-96A0-C6F121EA7546]@0xffffff 7f87c14000->0xffffff7f87c23fff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f86072000

dependency: com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily(5.2.0d16)[3E8EEB7F-E05E-33DD-96B6-9DAFA EB4997B]@0xffffff7f86bb4000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f860f0000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f860ad000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:

12C60

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: removed

Kernel slide: 0x0000000005800000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff8005a00000

System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 14457517790851

last loaded kext at 41860046352: com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0 (addr 0xffffff7f87a13000, size 36864)

last unloaded kext at 146117421242: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 5.2.5 (addr 0xffffff7f869ea000, size 65536)

loaded kexts:

com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.0.9f33

com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60

com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.12.69

com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.3.1f2

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 122

com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU 2.0.2d0

com.apple.GeForce 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.10

com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1

com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f33

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 2.3.1f2

com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.0.33

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl 3.2.11

com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl 3.2.11

com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.6.0

com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.2d6

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons 235.4

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 3.1.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 235.4

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1

com.apple.BootCache 34

com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 320.15

com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.1

com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.2.2

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 5.2.5

com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.9.6

com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet 3.2.5b3

com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331 602.15.22

com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.4.1

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 5.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.6.1

com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 161.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.5

com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.7

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.9

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.6

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 196.0.0

com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 4.0.39

com.apple.security.quarantine 2

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 196.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.6

com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0

com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.3.1f2

com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.9fc10

com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.6

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 86.0.3

com.apple.iokit.AppleBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport 4.0.9f33

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.0.9f33

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.3.1f2

com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.3.1f2

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.10d0

com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 8.0.0

com.apple.NVDAResman 8.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.4

com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.2.11

com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.5

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.3.5

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.5

com.apple.driver.

Does this mean that I need a new motherboard as well? In the Amsterdam iCenter technical support shop they ran a diagnose but it didn't show anything. The computer has been restored many times since. It crashes less often since the last clean install, but it still happens regularly. What can I do to fix it?

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f8616bb25): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error

If you have no third-party kernel extensions loaded, that error correlates strongly with a Hardware graphics probelm.

Be sure the people you are dealing with run the test for TS4088 as mentioned several times in this thread.