New Mac Pro - A graphics problem has been detected
System:
- New Mac Pro (late 2013)
- AMD Firepro D300, 2GB
- 3.7G Quad Core Xeon E5
- 12GB Ram
- 250G SSD Internal
- dual display, 24" samsung BX2440 and older 19" dell
- logitech mx518 mouse
- Apple wired keyboard with numeric pad
- external USB 2T drive used for time machine
- OSX Yosemite: 10.10
Problem:
Every few hours I get one or sometimes multiple errors where the OS pops a small dialog box
Sometimes I am in a web browser, sometimes playing a game, Garage band, sometimes in email, it doesn't seem to matter what is happening. The problem comes randomly and once it does, it freezes the UI solid until it resets the graphics card (or something like that). I was playing Legend of Grimrock and the thing happened, and the game created an error report stating "Graphics hardware encountered an error and was reset: 0x0000000e"
What I have tried:
- SMC Reset
- PRAM reset
- diskutil check disk (ok)
- diskutil fix permissions (ok)
- apple diagnostics, no problem found.
- Apple support chat session (no resolution)
Question:
- Is this a hardware problem where I should just go get my money back and/or get a new computer?
- If not a hardware problem, is there some well understood fix for this?
Frustrated and ready to punt,
Paul
Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), D300, 250G SSD, 12GB Ram