is your 2011 15 or 17 MBP freezing? [SOLVED by 10.6.7???]

[Woodcrest64]

Why wife's 17" MacBook Pro 2.2ghz i7 has froze once during a game of angry birds. However since then she has played the game without any issues. For using the internet and her office applications she doesn't experience any problems.

I thought I read somewhere people who are booting into Windows are not having any problems which leaves me to believe it's an OSX driver related problem?

 

[GuitarDTO]

Call me ignorant, but if it were a driver issue, wouldnt this problem show on all MBP's? Why do some people who do these tests not get any freezing? Doesnt that point to hardware?

 

[Lucagfc]

I think that there was software problem before 10.6.7. Some machine running windows works very well so the software problem is clear.

But some machine presents the problem also in windows and others preents the problem also after the software update. I think that this machine has also hardware problem.

I receive my MBP 17" today and now I' m doing Time Machine restore but after that I will try it and I hope it works!

 

[RainCityMacFan]

I run a Early 2011 15" Macbook Pro (High End) upgraded to 10.6.7.

I've turned on Photobooth and dev/null'd 8x. For 2 minutes, my temperature begins spiking up but caps around 83ºC ish.

I dev'null'd twice more. Opened Chrome and watched a YouTube video then recorded myself in PhotoBooth. Temperature now caps at 86ºC. 2 minutes later, same.

No freezing, I quit everything and put my MBP to sleep.

I hate to even suggest this but could it be possible that this is a hardware problem during the manufacturing process of these chips? Or a bad application of thermal paste causing over heating that leads to lock ups? Only thing for sure is that my MBP was fine before and after 10.6.7.

 

[Tadros]

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I noticed in your signature you have 16GB of RAM in your 2011 Macbook Pro. How is that? Have you ran into any problems with the system not being able to handle that much RAM? Where did you go for the upgrade, and how much was it?

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade/DDR3_1333MHz_SDRAM

I saw that the other day - $1600 way too much money ha. Thought maybe you got it elsewhere. Thanks though!

 

[nebulos]

Not beeing to familiar with Terminal commands, what exactly did the command yes > /dev/null do?

i don't know exactly what it does; in retrospect, i should have understood this a bit better before quoting it, sorry. lesson learned!

but, roughly speaking, it seems it provides an intensive 'mindless task' for the CPU by continuously writing Y's to the 'non-existent location' dev/null.

 

[nebulos]

... i agree that the bad driver theory didn't jibe with the fact that many were not having problems. at the same time, many with problems reported they were fine in Windows (under similar load, etc.)

i don't know. but i'm not sure the update did the trick after all. if it's hardware, i will be sad.

 

[mrwonkers]

I noticed in your signature you have 16GB of RAM in your 2011 Macbook Pro. How is that? Have you ran into any problems with the system not being able to handle that much RAM? Where did you go for the upgrade, and how much was it?

16GB of Ram in the 2011 MBP's performs very well, and is properly utilized by the system. I find having 16GB is very helpful when working with many large megapixel images in Adobes Lightroom. I purchased it through a friend who works at a PC component wholesaler, the ram is Samsung brand and I've had no problems. As stated in this thread 16GB can be purchased through OWC as well.

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Can we buy the samsung somewhere.

 

[WillEH]

I'll just leave this here..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LDhR1_BB6U

 

[nebulos]

I'll just leave this here..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LDhR1_BB6U

sweet

 

[mrwonkers]

Can we buy the samsung somewhere.

Pretty sure these guys can get you the Samsung 8GB Ram sticks.


http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/1333DDR3S16P/

 

[hammie14]

I did have the problem on 10.6.6 but now i have 10.6.7 its fine!

i ran the yes > dev/null test for 2 hours and the temp got up to 99'C and it was fine, also switched from intel to AMD GFX via the GFXcardstatus App and its been fine!