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Q: Mountain Lion freezing

Has anybody started experiencing sudden freezing and the spinning medicine ball since upgrading ?  I have to do a hard reset every time this happens which is severl times a day now since upgrading .

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 30, 2012 3:24 PM

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  • by firmanw,

    firmanw firmanw Aug 9, 2012 11:52 AM in response to Jozie
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    Aug 9, 2012 11:52 AM in response to Jozie

    Same issue here. My MBP early 2011 suddenly freezing about 5 times since upgraded to Mountain Lion even only Safari and Finder opened and 3 times losing stuff I working on Photoshop and Illustrator. I've run full Onyx automation module for Mountain Lion and no effect, it freezing 3 times in 2 hours. Now running Time Machine restore to the latest stable Lion backup and currently 8 hours remaining. What a waste.

  • by Crysis21,

    Crysis21 Crysis21 Aug 9, 2012 1:01 PM in response to hersey10
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    Aug 9, 2012 1:01 PM in response to hersey10

    I have installed the ML 2 weeks ago, and had no problem. This morning, the system became unusable. Even after a reboot, when I tried to open some apps or work with Finder the system frozen, with the beach ball. I got mad and reinstalled the ML, reset NVRAM, but again frozen. I reset again the NVRAM and this time started working fine. I had no issues for a few hours, when suddely my intenet stopped loading pages. When I wanted to quit Chrome, the system frooze again...Good job Apple, really good job. I used the developer preview 3 and I have to say it had no issue at all and it was booting way faster than this final version. I think I will be downgrading to Lion.

     

    This kind of issues make you regret you pay 2000$+ for a machine with "the most advanced operating system".

  • by Canadianpj,

    Canadianpj Canadianpj Aug 9, 2012 2:22 PM in response to Crysis21
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    Aug 9, 2012 2:22 PM in response to Crysis21

    Have you tried using a program called gfxCardStatus? The issue seems to be related to non integrated graphics for many people. It's a poor solution, but one that will at least stop crashing if this is  your issue. Just remember to unintall the program once 10.8.1 comes out.

     

    Since I instaleld the problem and set to use integrated only and it should stop the crashes.

  • by Crysis21,

    Crysis21 Crysis21 Aug 9, 2012 2:25 PM in response to Canadianpj
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    Aug 9, 2012 2:25 PM in response to Canadianpj

    regarding this issue, before I reinstalled ML, everytime I used a program that made use of ATI card, the colors changed (color temperature, they we're colder than on integrated graphics).

  • by Trinity,

    Trinity Trinity Aug 9, 2012 2:37 PM in response to hersey10
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    Aug 9, 2012 2:37 PM in response to hersey10

    same here, what a deception after years of keeping my MBP on during months now I have to restart at least once a week

  • by Crysis21,

    Crysis21 Crysis21 Aug 9, 2012 2:37 PM in response to Canadianpj
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    Aug 9, 2012 2:37 PM in response to Canadianpj

    I just installed gfxCardStatus and set the card to Integrated... had a voley match on my screen... so for me this is not a fix

  • by kafloo,

    kafloo kafloo Aug 9, 2012 8:32 PM in response to Jozie
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    Aug 9, 2012 8:32 PM in response to Jozie

    Jozie wrote:

     

    I have a cursor I can move around, but nothing I click on works, I can't switch between programs, and Force Quit combination on the keyboard doesn't work either. 

    I have to restart the machine.

     

    This is exactly what I've experienced except it happens when I'm using Google Chrome.

     

    I had to push and hold the power button for awhile until it shuts down.

     

    I've stopped using Google Chrome temporarily and it has never happened again. I'm using Firefox for now.

     

    I'm using MBA 11 (mid-2011).

     

    I hope Apple releases a fix for this as I'm having a hard time using other browsers as I've grown accustomed to Chrome.

  • by Apfelfluesterer,

    Apfelfluesterer Apfelfluesterer Aug 9, 2012 11:33 PM in response to hersey10
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    Aug 9, 2012 11:33 PM in response to hersey10

    I´d like to give you an update.

     

    I turned off LittleSnitch version 2.5x (no uninstall) and uninstalled the safari extension ClickToFlash 2.69

    The system is still very sluggish (eg freezes, loss of internet connection, problems with TimeCapsule,..) but at least the computer is useable again.

     

    But I like to mention that I did a clean install at the beginning and then I was already experiencing trouble without any third party extensions installed.

  • by Kennykw,

    Kennykw Kennykw Aug 10, 2012 12:28 AM in response to hersey10
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    Aug 10, 2012 12:28 AM in response to hersey10

    I am using MBP 15" Early 2011, after installed ML, I am having a similar problem when running those photo / photobook editing program. Only the cursor can be move around, and have to hard reset the machine.

     

    Hope 10.8.1 will be available soon...

  • by joeldizonmactal,

    joeldizonmactal joeldizonmactal Aug 10, 2012 1:15 AM in response to Kennykw
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    Aug 10, 2012 1:15 AM in response to Kennykw

    Earlier in this thread I suggested a clean install resolved my issue on ML freezing. So I hoped.

     

    Two days later, I had one episode of OS freezing. I just opened Finder when it froze.

     

    Since I got to upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion in July 27, I've reinstalled twice. Clean installed ones, and have reset PRAM as others suggested. I guess nothing would or could avert this occurences up until the release of 10.8.1 (that is if Apple recognises this problem).

     

    I have a Macbook Pro 13" late 2011. My friend who has the 17" inch model does not experience freezing with his Mountain Lion.

  • by Mirsky,

    Mirsky Mirsky Aug 10, 2012 1:22 AM in response to joeldizonmactal
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    Aug 10, 2012 1:22 AM in response to joeldizonmactal

    I have no idea if 10.8.1 is going to solve this freezing problem, but I encourage everyone to call Apple and tell the tech support people what's going on and about this thread. 800-275-2273

  • by bmeerdink,

    bmeerdink bmeerdink Aug 10, 2012 6:47 AM in response to hersey10
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    Aug 10, 2012 6:47 AM in response to hersey10

    Early 2008 iMac, 4GB, upgraded to Mountain Lion and got freezes, a few a day. Sometimes with white or black or striped screen, sometimes I can move te cursor but cannot do anything else with the machine. No beachball. Tried to exclude everything, even Safari and Chrome, but found no cause. iMac running a bit hot (internal HD always ~50C with extra fan speed), as always (I really hope they will improve heat management in the next iMacs) but cannot point to that as the reason.

  • by hersey10,

    hersey10 hersey10 Aug 10, 2012 6:56 AM in response to bmeerdink
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    Aug 10, 2012 6:56 AM in response to bmeerdink

    That's EXACTLY what is happening to mine as well , mine is mid 2011 MBP .  I have spent hours on the phne with "elevated technicians" as well as an in-store reinstall , still happening . So they elevated it even higher and sent the issue to the engineers (so they said) after I told them that there are a lot of people experiencing this and we've felt ignored . So today is the day that I'm supposed to hear back from them after looking in to it .  I will be sure to post an update .  I just want them to issue an update for everyone and fix the **** problem . 

  • by sue888,

    sue888 sue888 Aug 10, 2012 7:55 AM in response to hersey10
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    Aug 10, 2012 7:55 AM in response to hersey10

    I can say that, surprisingly, I've minimised issues since I did a Repair Permissions. Open/close lid, used Safari a bit. I've only had to hard reset once in 3 days as opposed to every 10 minutes. Progress!

     

    May not fix your problem, but Repair Permisisons might be worth a try.

  • by hersey10,

    hersey10 hersey10 Aug 10, 2012 11:42 AM in response to hersey10
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    Aug 10, 2012 11:42 AM in response to hersey10

    Just got off the phone with an Apple engineer , after going through the report collected from my hard drive , they've determined that the freezing and crashing is coming from Chrome and Norton Anti-virus not being up to date , baloney .  I am running IDENTICAL software on both of my Macintosh computers and the problem is only happening on 1 of them .

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