And I thought it was my machine that's broken... the external display issue I had with my two different Samsung monitors is gone after the update and I hope that the freeze during "waking up from hibernation" will be gone, too. It's really a pain in the bum when that happened.
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Firmware Update Addresses Freezes on Mid-2010 15-Inch and 17-Inch MacBook Pros
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I have the same issue and also own a Momentus XT (why i bought Seagate? Some internal voice kept telling me, thet i should buy something else... i didnt listen...) and the system freezes mainly in heavy hard drive related situations, like booting bootcamp windows in Parallels, look on the Seagate website, they released a newer firmware about a month ago and it fixed some of the beach ball issues (the disk had its own sleep mode, not related to OSX power management, because of its hybrid nature, so the momentus had to wake up in akward situations, when other HDDs are spinning and it caused some short beach ball freezes).
umm i don't have any freezing issues on my 17" i7
Lucky you
.If this is the issue I had w/ my 15" i7 ([thread]985242[/thread]), then it's an awful experience... Luckily I got my computer replaced... hopefully this update will work on my new machine.
If you have a 2010 MBP i7 15" that has never experienced any of the mentioned issues should you still update the Firmware?
Yes, since there have been no reports of any adverse effects.If you have a 2010 MBP i7 15" that has never experienced any of the mentioned issues should you still update the Firmware?
wont install on my mbp 15", and i have 10.6.4 as well. really annoying because im experiencing this issue and i cant run the update.
quoting from the apple support forums:
MBP61.88Z.0057.B00.1003040836
MBP61.88Z.0057.B05.1003191134
MBP61.88Z.0057.B07.1004071225
MBP61.88Z.0057.B09.1004161215
MBP61.88Z.0057.B0B.1007091039
It looks like they skip over the B0A version.
of course, mine happens to be the B0A version..
interesting! i just ran software update right now and the update showed up for me!
will let you guys know after it finishes!PS - my mbp is the B0A version.
Installed on my MBP 17" CTO with i5 processor, but i still get random kernel panics & crashes. And the problem is always caused by the integrated Intel HD GPU
At this point i think that either Flash sucks so bad (it only happens when i switch windows apps while watching videos on Youtube) on Apple hardware, or perhaps it's just a bug of the OS. I'm not encountering any problems on the "Windows-side". Anyway, i'm very disappointed about all of this as it's like working on a train-wreck, instead of a nice & clean fast machine.
At this point i think that either Flash sucks so bad (it only happens when i switch windows apps while watching videos on Youtube) on Apple hardware, or perhaps it's just a bug of the OS. I'm not encountering any problems on the "Windows-side". Anyway, i'm very disappointed about all of this as it's like working on a train-wreck, instead of a nice & clean fast machine.
It installed on my i7 no problems. I have an Apple issued drive on this machine. Is that original ram on your machine?
