MacBook Air (mid-2011) is freezing on wake-up. Any help?

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I&#x27;ve had this problem for about a month, it seems.  At first, I didn&#x27;t think anything was really wrong, considering it rarely ever happened.  Now these freezes have become more frequent -- to the point of me having to hard reboot the computer pretty much every time I wake the computer from sleep. Also, it seems that when I do restart it, there are times where it attempts to boot, but gets to the folder with the flashing question mark on it.  Again, this only happened a few times out of the many times the computer froze, but it&#x27;s now getting so bad that I meet this screen quite a few times after the initial restart -- causing me to have to power down and restart x amount of times until I can boot into the operating system.  Other times, after extended periods of sleeping, I&#x27;m met with the computer&#x27;s fans running (as it seems to get really hot with whatever it&#x27;s attempting to do).  Upon opening it, I see the flashing folder with the question mark on it.So, I started by resetting the PRAM/NVRAM and the SMC.  Neither method worked. I then reinstalled OS X (I&#x27;m running Mountain Lion, by the way) earlier today to see if this would solve the problem.  Guess not, since the freezes still seem to be happening. I also ran the Apple Hardware Test to see if it would pick up anything.  I ran both the "quick" and extended tests on it and it didn&#x27;t pick up anything, so my guess is that it&#x27;s something in software that&#x27;s going haywire.  I suppose my suspicions are correct, because I managed to save a report the OS spat out at me a few days ago when this happened, and I&#x27;ve got that at the bottom of the post. Granted, I know this was before the reinstallation, but anything is better than nothing, I suppose.  TL;DR: MacBook&#x27;s freezing when I wake it up from sleep and I&#x27;ve tried everything to fix it.  Can anyone else offer assistance?------------------Wed Dec 19 22:17:50 2012panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f850aef79): "AppleAHCI: slot (27) reused, newFIS &#x3D; 0x002f8027 : 0x00000010 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000001, currentFIS &#x3D; 0x002f8027 : 0x00000010 : 0x00000000 : 0x00000001, PxCl &#x3D; 0x08000000, PxSact &#x3D; 0x00000000
"@/SourceCache/AppleAHCI/AppleAHCI-241.0.2/AppleAHCIPort.cpp:4623Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address0xffffff8008433c90 : 0xffffff800361d626 0xffffff8008433d00 : 0xffffff7f850aef79 0xffffff8008433d80 : 0xffffff8003a47d9a 0xffffff8008433de0 : 0xffffff7f850ae7db 0xffffff8008433e30 : 0xffffff7f84341ab3 0xffffff8008433e60 : 0xffffff7f843430ea 0xffffff8008433ea0 : 0xffffff7f8436e3b6 0xffffff8008433ee0 : 0xffffff7f8436ee3d 0xffffff8008433f60 : 0xffffff800363dcde 0xffffff8008433fb0 : 0xffffff80036b26b7       Kernel Extensions in backtrace:         com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily(2.2.1)[D3335620-56DB-3A33-B51A-6DADD0F20E87]@0xfff fff7f8433f000-&gt;0xffffff7f84354fff         com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort(2.4.1)[5862FD1F-7B54-3DBE-9BD4-7C318F4B7F94]@0xf fffff7f850a7000-&gt;0xffffff7f850bffff            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily(2.2.1)[D3335620-56DB-3A33-B51A-6DADD0F20E87]@0xfff fff7f8433f000            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.2)[B1B77B26-7984-302F-BA8E-544DD3D75E73]@0xffff ff7f83c50000         com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage(2.2.2)[F7347670-69BC-351F-BC02-A8182FB46FFE] @0xffffff7f84365000-&gt;0xffffff7f8437afff            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily(2.2.1)[D3335620-56DB-3A33-B51A-6DADD0F20E87]@0xfff fff7f8433f000            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.8)[5BA4CD36-E96D-3A9E-ADFF-A863BBD63BC7]@0xff ffff7f83b7c000BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_taskMac OS version:12C60Kernel version:Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64Kernel UUID: 69A5853F-375A-3EF4-9247-478FD0247333Kernel slide:     0x0000000003400000Kernel text base: 0xffffff8003600000System model name: MacBookAir4,1 (Mac-C08A6BB70A942AC2)System uptime in nanoseconds: 2741162939592last loaded kext at 93121977865: com.github.osxfuse.filesystems.osxfusefs          2.5.1 (addr 0xffffff7f85158000, size 106496)last 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JasonFear · Answer

When you reinstalled OS X did you do a clean reinstall? Or just do a system reinstall so that all of your data was preserved?If you create a new user account and sleep the machine does the lock up issue occur?

Sonicdude41 · Answer

I wiped the drive first using Disk Utility, then proceeded to install.  So yes, a clean install.I haven&#x27;t thought to try that.  I&#x27;ll do this and report back.

Sonicdude41 · Answer

Sorry for taking so long, I had to go Christmas shopping with the family.  Anyway, I tried that, and no gas there, either. I&#x27;ve done a memtest and changed the hibernatemode to 0 using pmset since this post.  So... yeah.  I&#x27;m hitting a wall and am willing to bet it&#x27;s the SSD going out the door. 😟

drummerboy00 · Answer

Sonicdude41 - Did you ever resolve this issue? If so, how?  I am having the exact same problem (freezing after sleep / blinking folder) and also have tried everything including a fresh reinstall of the OS, to no avail?  Was it the hardware in your situation?Thanks!