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Grey screen every time with MBP Retina

Hi,


I got a strange behaviour of my MBP Retina. After upgrading to Mountain Lion it may not start. I have a grey screen, Safe Mode doesn't pass. Restore works, MBP boots OK then, can even restart and shutdown OK few times. But if the shut down period is long (more than 3-4h) I got a grey screen again.


I tried all the tricks with premissions restore, resetting PRAM, uninstalled Parallels and Little snitch, run Onyx for Mountai Lion and cleaned everything, everything from startup apps list. Nothing happens. I got a grey screen again, almost every day, then re-install the OS, and it works OK until next shutdown. SSD is OK, MBP has no hangs/freezes, works great after OSX reinstall, then again - grey screen. Verbose Mode hangs after a list of "FIPS USER Space Post" - all success, no mistakes. Before there is a message "Kernel is LP64", and the a string "/dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)"


Please, give some advise!

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 15"

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 2:26 PM

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Sep 25, 2012 3:02 PM in response to CMCSK

Yes, this is a next step, sure. I I was trying to understand, maybe there is a simple solution. It works OK after re-istall, no hardware issues. Seems to be a software problem. Maybe some app changes/delete something in extensions or so after a certain time, and this causes the problem at startup. I heard about issues with Parallels, Little Snitch even Transmit app.

Sep 28, 2012 9:02 AM in response to CMCSK

I contacted Typinator support. The reason seems not in Typinator, but in Lion "Resume applications" after boot function. I cleaned up "~/Library/Saved Application State" folder. There were pretty much files from old apps there, including some I have uninstalled already. The system boots up OK with Typinator. The problem was not directly in Typinator, it is OK.

Jan 31, 2014 7:48 PM in response to TigraX

Sorry to bring this topic again, i have the same exact symptoms in here, and i suspect that its a third party aswell bugging me around doign this grey screens. ( had this for 3 days now after shutting down it gets back to grey screen but after i do a couple of stuff i can get it back to work. )

I already have the latest firmwares etc and updates i would say.


heres the etrecheck scan. ( ignore wow open )


Hardware Information:

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)

iMac - model: iMac13,2

1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4 cores

16 GB RAM


Video Information:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M - VRAM: 512 MB


System Software:

OS X 10.9.1 (13B42) - Uptime: 0 days 2:12:19


Disk Information:

APPLE HDD WDC WD10EALX-408EA0 disk1 : (1 TB)

EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB

disk1s2 (disk1s2) <not mounted>: 937,52 GB

Recovery HD (disk1s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

BOOTCAMP (disk1s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 61,83 GB (16,99 GB free)


APPLE SSD SM128E disk0 : (121,33 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB

disk0s2 (disk0s2) <not mounted>: 120,99 GB

Boot OS X (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 134,2 MB


USB Information:


Razer Razer Lachesis


C-Media Electronics Inc. USB PnP Sound Device


Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)


Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller


FireWire Information:


Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus


Kernel Extensions:

com.steelseries.BoardListener (8.39 - SDK 10.6)

com.tuxera.filesystems.tufsfs.fusefs_txantfs (2012.4.17)


Problem System Launch Daemons:


Problem System Launch Agents:


Launch Daemons:

[System] at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist 3rd-Party support link


Launch Agents:

[System] at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link

[System] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist 3rd-Party support link


User Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist 3rd-Party support link

[not loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist 3rd-Party support link

[not loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist 3rd-Party support link

[not loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist 3rd-Party support link


User Login Items:

None


Internet Plug-ins:

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.38 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link

AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.1 3rd-Party support link

Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.38 - SDK 10.6 3rd-Party support link

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 51 3rd-Party support link

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9


Audio Plug-ins:

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9

AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player 3rd-Party support link

Java 3rd-Party support link


Bad Fonts:

None


Old Applications:

Install Spotify: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

/Users/[redacted]/Downloads/Install Spotify.app

SA Color Finesse 3 UI: Version: 3.0.6(275) - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Plug-ins/Effects/Synthetic Aperture/(CF3 Support)/SA Color Finesse 3 UI.app

dynamiclinkmanager: Version: 6.0.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/dynamiclink/CS6/dynamiclinkmanager.app

dynamiclinkmediaserver: Version: 6.0.0 - SDK 10.5 3rd-Party support link

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/dynamiclinkmediaserver/1.0/dynamiclinkmediaserver.app


Time Machine:

Time Machine not configured!


Top Processes by CPU:

116% installd

38% World of Warcraft

10% WindowServer

7% firefox

3% storeagent


Top Processes by Memory:

1.28 GB World of Warcraft

770 MB firefox

239 MB installd

164 MB mds_stores

164 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent


Virtual Memory Information:

4.18 GB Free RAM

5.21 GB Active RAM

5.03 GB Inactive RAM

1.58 GB Wired RAM

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Grey screen every time with MBP Retina

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