Sound stuttering after Mountain Lion install

Dear community,


after having installed OSX Mountain Lion my sound startet stuttering whenever there is rapid movement on my screen.

This includes e.g. window movement, scrolling through image loaded websites or video playback (flash player, quicktime).

A restart didn't help. I'm using stereo output, not digital.


I have connected a second monitor but the problem persists after disconnecting it. Movement on the second monitor also causes the sound to stutter.

My GPU Diode temperature is at 85°C (there is some bug that keeps the GPU under load while a second monitor is connected AFAIK), but I guess it was the same under Snow Leopard.


In Snow Leopard the sound output was always perfect even under heavy load or heavy HDD I/O.


Any ideas?

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 28, 2012 5:48 AM

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Sep 11, 2012 1:40 PM in response to tttxx

I had the video/sound stuttering and random freezes for while, after a lot (seriously a lot) I found out on a Portuguese site that this was known problem for my ssd (verbatim 128gb) and after installed the latest version of the physon controller my system is back to normal and I can use mountain Lion again 🙂


Just bare in mind that I didn't bought my ssd from apple so this will probably not solve your problem.. But anyway to update your ssd controllers (if they are physon controllers, there are others..) you can follow this guide with the ssd on a windows machine:

http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/mydigitalssd-msata-half-slim-and-2.5-inch-sata- ssd-firmware-update.html


Best luck for you guys

Sep 11, 2012 7:07 PM in response to dokt

Apple is deleting my posts. Nothing negative, just wanting a fix. I guess Apple's moderators can't have the truth posted about bad products. Just because you see a steaming pile of poop before you doesn't mean that if you turn the other way and cover your nose that it is gone.


Thank you for the reply Chris, I am hoping that 8.2 fixes the issues. I've known this was a kernel issue for a long time. It's just nobody in customer service knew it and they couldn't do a dang thing about it.

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