Macbook Pro Crashing
Sep 30, 2011 | 02:09 AM
#12
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My BlacBook has been freezing and crashing a ton after I installed Lion. Plus the right speaker went out. Plus it's one month out of warranty. Oh well. All livable things I guess. Not a single mark on it...
Last edited by 65°V12; Sep 30, 2011 at 02:18 AM.
Sep 30, 2011 | 09:43 AM
#14
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If you're only a month out of warranty you may want to just take it to an apple store or call AppleCare, they may still be willing to help.
Sep 30, 2011 | 09:49 AM
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It's also a good idea to follow the steps in my troubleshooting thread-- specifically, repair disk permissions, verify the disk, check the boot log and see if anything weird is going on, etc.
Sep 30, 2011 | 02:52 PM
#16
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Lately my Macbook Pro has been crashing. It just goes to a black screen and becomes unresponsive, forcing me to reboot. It generates a report after restarting that I have been sending to Apple, but I don't know what that's going to accomplish. Didn't have this problem before installing Lion. Anyone else having issues?
at first, i thought it was overheating & the graphics card was shutting off. but that wasn't it. i can run the computer up to 80 degrees Celsius & it'll run for hours.
what does it then? Flash on Chrome seems to be a culprit. Teamspeed on Chrome would shut it down daily (i view Teamspeed on Firefox w/ absolutely no issue now.) Embedded YouTubes on Chrome in a forum will also do it from time to time.
i haven't taken mine in yet b/c i can't go w/o the computer for 2-3 weeks. try to pay attention when it happens & see if you can discern a pattern.
- chuck
Last edited by carendt242; Sep 30, 2011 at 02:53 PM.
Sep 30, 2011 | 03:10 PM
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At first I thought it was a browser issue too, because most of the crashes would happen when launching Firefox while Safari was running. But it also crashes in iPhoto and Photoshop. Very frustrating. I was trying to work on a project in PS last night and after 3 crashes, I gave up.
Sep 30, 2011 | 05:54 PM
#19
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Just took it back to the Apple store. They said all 4 kernel panic logs from yesterday point to the graphics card driver but that it is most likely a software issue. They want me to re-install Lion.
