2010 Macbook Pro Freezes

[iSax1234]

Ok, so heres my situation. Recently my Macbook Pro has been freezing a lot. Sometimes it will freeze at Start Up as soon as I get to the login window. The mouse won't move and the keyboard doesn't work. Sometimes I experience this half way through login window (as I'm typing my password). Then if I type my password and log in by the time everything has pulled up, it freezes again no mouse or keyboard response. When I get logged in my iStats show full CPU usage on both cores. Ok so if I ever get logged in, sometimes it takes 10 shutdowns and start ups till I can get it logged in, it'll randomly freeze.

So basically it freezes a lot. I'm thinking that this is a software issue, and maybe a clean install will fix all of this. Strangely enough, Photoshop CS4 has began to crash among dragging layers as soon as this has started.

So should I back up, and clean install everything. Or just take it to Apple, (my screen has keyboard yellow green impressions anyway).

Thanks for the help.

 

[aeboi]

is this an i5/i7 mbp?

 

[saxon48]

Repair disk permissions?

 

[iSax1234]

Sorry, its a base i5 15inch model

 

[fluffyx]

It sounds like your MacBook Pro's acting up all the time .

Why not try starting from the gray Mac OS X disc that came with your MacBook Pro? There's really not much that you can do on there, but if it's freezing while booted from the Mac OS X disc, you'll know there's a physical problem with your machine.

How did you transfer your data to your MacBook Pro?

 

[iSax1234]

Yeah, I'm going to do a clean install. I just need to buy an external. My data originally came from 2008 White Macbook Via Firewire 400 to 800.

 

[fluffyx]

A clean install is rarely necessary, and software problems usually don't cause "hard freezing" whereby the mouse won't move. Before you go through the trouble of a clean install, try booting from your Mac OS X install disc and see if the problem persists there.