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User profile for user: ifish12
ifish12 Author
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OS X locking up?

Howdy.


I've been running Mountain Lion since the GM seed dropped to developers and I've been having only one issue. But I'm not sure if it's hardware or software(but I didn't have it for the 10 days I was on Lion).


So, I'll explain my situation honestly. I've had my 2011 MacBook Pro 13-inch(baseline) for about a year now and just recently I added an SSD into the main SATA drive, and removed my SuperDrive in exchange for a HDD caddy. So, I installed Lion freshly on the SSD with no issues whatsoever(for about 10 days. Since I got the SSD on the 28th of June). All was smooth sailing.


So, I installed the Mountain Lion GM seed(The day it same out) and then, I start having issues. Ever so often(no pattern) my OS will "lockup". I'll explain that though. Any sound I have / Skype call will still be going normally, I can move my mouse normally but nothing responds. It's like everything froze. And eventaully the mouse pointer will turn to a spinning beach ball and then back to the pointer. I eventually just shut down the machine physically since I can't do anything else. Once the graphics for the Dock got all messed up.


Now, I purchased Mountain Lion this morning from the Mac App Store, booted into Recover HD and formatted my SSD and freshly installed Mountain Lion thinking that might solve my issues, but it didn't solve them at all. My OS has "locked up" twice today within the hour.


I've noticed whenever the OS "locks up" when I reboot it, it always has ot reindex itself and apparently it saved al my apps because they reopen with Resume.


I am leaning towards it being my SSD is the issue, but I'm honestly not sure. I plan to install ML on my HDD in the caddy and see if issues persist. But that might take a while since I can sometimes go 6+ days without an issue.


I love to know if any of you have no ideas / solutions for my issue or share your thoughts. I still have my SSD under warranty so I can have it replaced.


Also, if it is a hardware issue with my Mac, what should I go about doing? It's out of warranty and I broke the warranty with the caddy anyway. But it doesn't seem like the caddy is the issue at all.


Thanks!

Posted on Jul 26, 2012 12:40 AM

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User profile for user: Jonimius
Jonimius
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Jul 27, 2012 6:32 PM in response to ifish12

I'm having the EXACT same issues. I also have the same configuration (though the 15" version). I've spent the better part of two days swapping drives and reinstalling. I have a crucial M4 225 SSD. I'm seeing there's a firmware update that was released in April of this year. I can't get the flippin firmware update on my USB via disk utility though which is super frustrating. I'm going to replace the disk caddy with my superdrive and try to update the firmware via a CD. What kind of SSD do you have?

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User profile for user: markfromomaha
markfromomaha
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Aug 9, 2012 5:49 PM in response to ifish12

I installed Mountain Lion a week ago. Mine locked up in the same manner. Nothing unusal going on, but the system just completely stopped responding. The mouse pointer still moved across the screen, but nothing else responded. No mouse clicks. No keyboard. As stated by ifish12, I also had Skype running at the time. Sounds like Skype is the culprit.

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User profile for user: ifish12
ifish12 Author
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Aug 9, 2012 5:51 PM in response to markfromomaha

Alright so. I used Skype a few days ago to test the waters and my Mac issues came back. No issues before that.

But even after I deleted the Skype files I still had issues. So I'm not sure. I downgraded to Lion last night and I'l testing this for a week to see if the issue is Skype + ML. (USing Skype on Lion too).


I'll report back with my findings. If I have further issues I'll get my Mac repaird

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User profile for user: digitoxin9
digitoxin9
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Aug 20, 2012 8:12 AM in response to ifish12

I had a similar problem of spinning beach balls when trying to do anything, basically after every click. it was so bad the system was unusable. i saw on a forum thread to repair disk permissions and that solved my problem. Apparently a lot of printer and image capture drivers had the wrong permissions. and i recently setup an HP wifi printer, which is when the problems started, so I blame HP.


But anyway, go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. select your hard drive, and then choose "repair disk permissions". once the process was complete, the system was snappy again. good luck.

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