apple hardware test hangs after 7 seconds

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Tiart Author

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apple hardware test hangs after 7 seconds

Hi,

I was experiencing trouwble in Logic Pro. I got the folowing errors:

Disk is too slow or System Overload.

(-10010)

The Sudden Motion Sensor may have parked the hard drive head, or the disk performance is not sufficient to read or write all audio tracks, or the system was not able to process all data in time.

and

System Overload.

The audio engine was not able to process all required data in time.

(-10011)

This was the reason why i started a AHT. The test freezes after 7 sec. My MacBook seems to be working fine beside the Logic Errors.

What is wrong? Is the memoryunit defect or somthing?

I hope there is a simple sollution for this.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Apr 1, 2013 11:35 AM

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Answer 1

mende1

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Apr 1, 2013 11:41 AM in response to Tiart

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities

It's normal that Apple Hardware Test appears as frozen, but Apple Hardware Test isn't frozen. It just updates the screen after some minutes, not continuously, so if you continue with Apple Hardware Test, you will see activity after some minutes. Apart from that, if you don't see that its progress bar gets full, note that an extended test may take an hour or more time

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Tiart Author

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Apr 1, 2013 12:04 PM in response to mende1

Thank you for the answer. I waited about 20 minutes and reset my MacBook. The test only should take a couple of seconds.

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mende1

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Apr 1, 2013 12:06 PM in response to Tiart

Did you perform a normal or an extended test? Make sure you run an extended test. This test may take hours, depending on the amount of memory you have. Also, note that Apple Hardware Test sometimes fails and doesn't show all problems the computer has

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Tiart Author

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Apr 2, 2013 8:48 AM in response to mende1

I did. I left my MacBook on all day with the result that my MacBook is kinda warm and the test freezed up at 1 minute and 53 second in Pass 1 of the test.

Now that i rebooted a couple of times i notice that the MacBook starts fast as it should and then quickly slows down as i open up inet brouwsers e.g. Spiningball is seen often two...

Whats going on?

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