Recurring error: A graphics problem has been detected.

also having issues after upgrading to yosemite from mavericks

I have a 17" 2011 MBP I get random graphic glitches when using an external monitor with my thunderbolt display port. If the system reboots I get a graphics issue was detected message, and the option to report it.

Would love for this to be solved seriously hurting my workflow atm not being able to use external monitor

And the glitches Im getting are insane... usually computer becomes unresponsive while its happening:

heres a screen shot of some weirdness

Yosemite video issue! Help =S

I have tried the fix mentioned in my post above (disable all notifications) a couple of days ago and indeed I do not get the message anymore.

However need to bear in mind that with this you will not get notifications of any kind.

Seems that quite a few have this problem which seems to be Yosemite specific so hope Apple come with a fix.

I got the same problem after my Retina early 2013 froze up and i did a force shutdown (holding the power but. for 5sec)

I scaned the disk for errors and checked for bad permissions.The problem still persist.

Same problem 😟

Twice a day it complete locks up my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)

Yosemite is again one step backward

include the keychain that f***s everything especially my 2 exchange accounts 😠 ahhhgrrr

I ve started a time machine restore to oct 17. Going back to Mavericks need to be able to work.

10 hours down on the restore... 10 more to go

Don't upgrade to Yosemite

I'm on a 2011 Mac Mini with an HDMI monitor and what seems like the same problem as everyone else. GPU Resets, user display does not recover and requires a hard restart. During the beta I thought I had run into a graphics hardware failure, but immediately downgraded to Mavericks and the problem disappeared. I was on the Yosemite public beta and didn't see this start happening until beta 4 (I think). Foolishly I thought that this issue would be resolved by the time the GM was released, but that is not the case.

This issue has never occurred on my 2012 Macbook Air or my 2008 iMac. The Mac Mini is the only one with an AMD GPU in it. The other two are Intel and Nvidia, respectively. I'm not sure it is directly related to the type of GPU though since the reports on this thread include both AMD and Intel GPUs.

Having the same problem in Yosemite (official release) on a late 2013 15" Retina Macbook. The problem occurs when the graphics chip switches from integrated to Nvidia or vice versa, but only on occasion. (This is why some of you are having problems with external monitors. OSX always switches to discrete graphics when using an external monitor.) I end up in a state where I can move my cursor around, but not do anything else.

Will try moving the logs to see if it fixes it.

Update on my situation, I've downgraded to Mavericks since getting the video problem. The issue continued. Still getting video problems. Have even tried a fresh snow leopard install. Same problem. So was suspicious it was hardware related. And turns out it is... AHT didn't show anything but after going to apple store, I am getting a new logic board Apperantly the video card is malfunctioning. Video card is part of logic board

Adding my voice to the choir. MBP RD 15" 2013, installed Yosemite after the official release, not beta. Machine has frozen several times - cursor will work but no response to any clicks, Alt Tab, and cannot bring up Performance monitor with the three-key combo. Only answer is to power off and reboot at which time the "Graphics error" message comes up.

I've not had any problems like this with the machine before. It's been stable as a rock.

I'm sending the error reports to Apple. I'm leery of doing the file deletes/moves mentioned earlier but may have to, eventually, or restore Mavericks.

I'm seeing a flood of "GPU Reset" in the console - every once in a while it results in a frozen screen but the mouse still works. A hard reset is required to recover.

I've just tried turning off the "automatic graphics switching" in the power preferences as it looks like the GPU Reset is triggered when the system switches between the integrated Intel controller to the NVIDIA GeForce controller.

i've spoke with the mac expert (computerdoctor-bg) and they've suggested me to boot into the recovery partition and reinstall the mac OS X Yosemite.

I did that and my Macbook pro retina 15 early 2013 it seems to work fine now. There's no error messeges so far.

So far, I've found that deleting the logs fixed it for me.

Deleting the log files did not fix it for me, and the problem is more pronounced when I display to an external display AND am using parallels 10. I guess I will have to take it to the Apple Store as well.

I'm on a few days old Macbook Pro 13" running Yosemite.

Would you try to boot to recovery partition and reinstall Yosemite.This did the trick for me.

Please do a backup first 🙂

Third crash today... I click on a link on a known good website and something that worked 100% of the time in Mavericks and Mountain Lion causes the system to hang requiring power-off and restart. I'm honked off beyond belief but it doesn't seem like Apple is aware of this or planning a fix (I've searched)

Any tips on how to revert to Mavericks? I did do a full Time Machine backup before installing Yosemite. But, I have received mail and done work on Yosemite when it wasn't hanging on me.