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Q: Mac keeps freezing after Mavericks 1.9.2 clean install

hey there guys, I formated all my Macbook Pros 15'' late 2011 HD and reinstalled Mavericks 10.9.2 from a Recovery HD (twice) and after some time it starts to freeze - dock freezes, icons are not bouncing, when I try to close program it freezes etc. Restart didnt help, checked HD for errors, all fine. What could be the problem?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 8, 2014 5:14 AM

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  • by BobRz,

    BobRz BobRz Apr 10, 2014 10:06 AM in response to Suhov
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    Apr 10, 2014 10:06 AM in response to Suhov
  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Apr 10, 2014 10:28 AM in response to Suhov
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    Apr 10, 2014 10:28 AM in response to Suhov

    Good job.

    "except video on VLC was giving errors and and my Cinema 4d app is crashing"  

    this looks as if incompatible or downright wrong kexts are loaded.

    It may not necessarily be a Cinema kext, but are you sure it is Mavericks compatible?

    Can you give us the crash report that is generated at the moment of the crash?

  • by Suhov,

    Suhov Suhov Apr 10, 2014 12:37 PM in response to Suhov
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    Apr 10, 2014 12:37 PM in response to Suhov

    This is how it looks. Not a crash though, but some errors. Im feeling pretty ****** with all this laggy stuff, feels like cranky old PC. I hope its only SATA cable and not anything else. As a matter of fact I was doing the clean install to just sell this computer, and I got this problem here!

    Screen Shot 2014-04-10 at 10.02.12 PM.pngScreen Shot 2014-04-10 at 10.07.30 PM.png

  • by Suhov,

    Suhov Suhov Apr 10, 2014 12:40 PM in response to Suhov
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    Apr 10, 2014 12:40 PM in response to Suhov

    Could I use 'Scannerz' to locate the problem?

  • by Suhov,

    Suhov Suhov Apr 10, 2014 1:27 PM in response to Suhov
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    Apr 10, 2014 1:27 PM in response to Suhov

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  • by BobRz,

    BobRz BobRz Apr 10, 2014 1:42 PM in response to Suhov
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    Apr 10, 2014 1:42 PM in response to Suhov

    It's either a bad drive or a bad SATA cable. There's no tool that'll narrow it down more. The symptoms are the same for either problem.

  • by MrJavaDeveloper,

    MrJavaDeveloper MrJavaDeveloper Apr 10, 2014 4:06 PM in response to BobRz
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    Apr 10, 2014 4:06 PM in response to BobRz

    Scannerz has an interface testing mode that came out back in March(?). Bad cables and system faults is what it tests for. If you put it into interface testing mode and let it run and if the cable is bad, you'll get periodic system faults detected, but you may need to set the iteration level high to catch them. I would do a scan on the drive first because if it fails in a normal scan, diagnostics mode will tell you if it's the drive or something else (IMHO that "something else" is a bad cable 99% of the time). If it's something else, put it into interface testing mode and you should see it generate  system faults.

  • by BobRz,

    BobRz BobRz Apr 10, 2014 5:00 PM in response to MrJavaDeveloper
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    Apr 10, 2014 5:00 PM in response to MrJavaDeveloper

    That program costs more than the enclosure. What would be the point?

  • by MrJavaDeveloper,

    MrJavaDeveloper MrJavaDeveloper Apr 10, 2014 5:55 PM in response to BobRz
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    Apr 10, 2014 5:55 PM in response to BobRz

    Scannerz is a hardware testing tool. He could check the logic board for faults, the SATA cable, and the drive with it. It also would have likely exposed bad RAM. I was more or less responding to the comment that "There's no tool that'll narrow it down more."  We use that tool on our database drives, and Scannerz and Disk Warrior are the only tools we trust. If one of our systems is showing any signs of failure or becoming failure prone, we want it out of use and in service ASAP. Logic board problems can also cause problems similar to those of a bad hard drive or SATA cable.

     

    I find the comment:

     

    I whiped HD again, and tried to install ML for the secont time, this time, computer couldnt read my thumb drive and after restart couldnt even load and showed a folder with a question mark on it.

     

    more than a little troubling.

  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Apr 11, 2014 12:31 AM in response to MrJavaDeveloper
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    Apr 11, 2014 12:31 AM in response to MrJavaDeveloper

    I agree with Bob. Btw this forum is not a marketing forum.

  • by Suhov,

    Suhov Suhov Apr 11, 2014 12:37 AM in response to Suhov
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    Apr 11, 2014 12:37 AM in response to Suhov

    I tried running AHT on my computer, but it aint loading it, and computer came with no dvds, since it shipped with Lion. I assume AHT will do the thing hey?

  • by MrJavaDeveloper,

    MrJavaDeveloper MrJavaDeveloper Apr 11, 2014 12:49 AM in response to Lexiepex
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    Apr 11, 2014 12:49 AM in response to Lexiepex

    That wasn't a marketing post. I work for neither Alsoft or SCSC. I explained what Scannerz could do.

     

    With that said, I see nothing wrong with the external drive approach assuming the user can easily get an external enclosure and has the tools to pull the drive. However, he's also reporting problems that aren't SATA related, and the failures are also typical of a logic board problem.

     

    If AHT can be loaded and put into iteration mode it should indicate whether or not the logic board is the problem.

  • by Suhov,

    Suhov Suhov Apr 11, 2014 5:28 AM in response to Suhov
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    Apr 11, 2014 5:28 AM in response to Suhov

    Ok, so I did AHT extended testing, which took 1 hour 13 minutes and it found NO TROUBLE at all, so its a good stuff, now will get that case going on as Bob suggested.

  • by ZV137,

    ZV137 ZV137 Apr 12, 2014 12:32 AM in response to Suhov
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    Apr 12, 2014 12:32 AM in response to Suhov

    For future reference, if you want to save yourself some grief, you might look into some of the testing tools provided in the list below:

     

    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1544280

     

    That list has everything from the free, like smartmontools and Disk Utility to the expensive, like TechTool Pro. Testing your drive periodically can head off some of the problems you may be having.

     

    Just thought I'd throw that out there for anyone interested.

  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Apr 12, 2014 12:39 AM in response to ZV137
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    Apr 12, 2014 12:39 AM in response to ZV137

    Do not use the general purpose tools except DiskUtility.

    Beware of the single purpose tools, some of them cause more problems than repair. use only what you understand exactly!

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