Macbook Pro (late 2011) freezing with Mountain Lion 10.8.2

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Macbook Pro (late 2011) freezing with Mountain Lion 10.8.2

Seems like Mountain Lion 10.8.2 shipped with some stability issues..

My late 2011 Mac ocasionally freezes for no good reason. Yesterday the Finder just stopped working and brought the whole OS down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c9PUDEaNgY

The other day it just froze upon a cold boot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ef-kDiWRI

It's a bit of a shame that this sort of major issues exist on a platform that should just work..

Not looking for an answer because I don't think there's none.. whatever it is, I don't think it's caused by anything user related... the OS just needs patching

MacBook Pro

Posted on Oct 30, 2012 2:51 AM

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Oct 30, 2012 3:23 AM in response to mindwalker

I'm on a late 2011 MacBook Pro and have had no issues with 10.8.2.

It looks as if you have a hardware problem. You could try running the Apple Hardware Test to see if you come up with any hardware errors. If you do (or even if you don't) I would take the machine into your local Apple Store or an AASP and have them run their diagnostics on the machine - because I don't really think that it's an OS problem.

Clinton

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mindwalker Author

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Oct 30, 2012 3:29 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

Thanks for the advice! I'll try running the diagnostics.

On the other hand I'm using 8Gb of Kingston memory (certified to work with my Mac) so I'm sure if I bring the Mac to the Apple Store with those modules they'll tell me immediately that it is the problem 😢

Therefore I guess I have to go back to my older 4Gb modules that came with the Mac and hope until it freezes again (it's going to be a pain running with 4Gb again... hello virtual memory paging!)

Although this never happened with Lion... even with my 8Gb Kingston expansion it has always been rock solid

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Oct 30, 2012 3:52 AM in response to mindwalker

I doubt if it's the RAM - and the folks at the Apple Store don't give two hoots about you installing your own RAM. They even have instructions on how to install RAM and HDs for goodness sake!

So... just run the AHT and see if you get any errors. I would bet that it's something other than your RAM.

Clinton

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