Yes, it matters that you are doing this on a 17". The 1.6 roll back would take a 15" or 13" MBP from B03 to B02. You have B05 firmware.
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MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 Problems
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Yes, it matters that you are doing this on a 17". The 1.6 roll back would take a 15" or 13" MBP from B03 to B02. You have B05 firmware.
Think you'll have to head down to your apple store and ask.
The ones provided here are for the 09' mbp unibody
Just wanted to pipe in and tell you my experiences:
mid-2009 MBP, 1.7 firmware pre-installed
Just installed my Seagate 320GB 7200.3 hd and no problems.
I was so scared when trying it though. Initially made a bootable backup of what I had running, and tried it out on the Seagate. No beachballs, so relieved! Then popped in the SL cd and wiped the Seagate, then did a clean install. No stalls and right now, havent seen a beachball yet (spent the morning re-installing programs and restoring specific settings through iBackup).
Sorry to hear that some of you are still affected :/
mid-2009 MBP, 1.7 firmware pre-installed
Just installed my Seagate 320GB 7200.3 hd and no problems.
I was so scared when trying it though. Initially made a bootable backup of what I had running, and tried it out on the Seagate. No beachballs, so relieved! Then popped in the SL cd and wiped the Seagate, then did a clean install. No stalls and right now, havent seen a beachball yet (spent the morning re-installing programs and restoring specific settings through iBackup).
Sorry to hear that some of you are still affected :/
I've been having problems also with sluggish loading times on my MBP with an aftermarket SSD. After resetting the PRAM, it's blazing fast again! Thanks
I had no problems for a while with my X25-M 160 Gb, but then I started getting beachballs, always when watching a specific video clip(like one every 5-10 min). So I downgraded firmware to 1.6 and then upgraded again to 1.7. Now I haven't seen a beachball for a few hours, even though I had that video clip running for a while.
Scratch that, I got it back for some reason. It seems some specific video clips produce em...
Ok here is my story, I have a MBP 13 inch 2.26GHz bought it 3 days after release, 1 week after I got it I had 7200.4 500GB seagate and it ran fine even after 1.7 upgrade never an issue..... Few weeks back I decided to treat my self to an SSD got a Super Talent 64GB, amazingly fast specially with Snow Leopard..... But then crashes came and SMART reporting that CRC errors, so after speaking with Super Talent they told me that new firmware is coming etc.... Then OCZ Vertex went on sale same size, so I decided to get that as well and use eather or in my Windows machine and in the MBP, well same issue with OCZ in macbook, I have Super Talent running in windows 7 desktop for 2 weeks no freezes or crashes. OCZ cant help because there are no logs, not sure what to do at this time... I was thinking about 1.6 downgrade but that will bring the speed down significantly and I might as well go back to 7200.4 ? Also why is 7200.4 Seagate 500GB running fine ? No CRC errors in SMART nothing RED.
Please any suggestions is appreciated. I cant stand the freezing any more and reboots even if the boot is 16 seconds
Please any suggestions is appreciated. I cant stand the freezing any more and reboots even if the boot is 16 seconds
Also a quick question for a few of you to answer
Ive only been able to consistently replicate the issue under snow leopard in this manner:
Play an xvid video larger then 700mb in quicktime, copy roughly 2 to 4 gb of data from a dvd in the super drive to your hard drive, and run the AJA System Test at with file size 8.0 GB (http://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJA_System_Test_v601.zip)
Can anyone try this and return results, wether or not this creates this systemwide freeze we are talking about (In my case this triggers the system wide freeze)
Also if anyone is following this thread with a 2008 Unibody macbook pro, can you please try the same and post wether or not you get a system freeze or any beach balls at all.
thank you.
Ive only been able to consistently replicate the issue under snow leopard in this manner:
Play an xvid video larger then 700mb in quicktime, copy roughly 2 to 4 gb of data from a dvd in the super drive to your hard drive, and run the AJA System Test at with file size 8.0 GB (http://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJA_System_Test_v601.zip)
Can anyone try this and return results, wether or not this creates this systemwide freeze we are talking about (In my case this triggers the system wide freeze)
Also if anyone is following this thread with a 2008 Unibody macbook pro, can you please try the same and post wether or not you get a system freeze or any beach balls at all.
thank you.
I bought a new 13" MBP from the Apple at the beginning of September. Stock 2.26Ghz model with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB Hitachi 5400rpm drive (System profiler shows 3Gb speed). No hardware upgrades performed. Boot ROM version ends in B03 (That's EFI 1.7, right?)
I'm experiencing the frequent but random spinning beachballs with just about any app including Safari, Firefox, Aperture, Mail, Pages, etc. Everything freezes up for at least 10-20 second or more, than resumes as normal. I didn't have this problem with my old white 2.0Ghz MacBook. Very frustrating.
I might try downgrading to EFI 1.6 tonight to see if that makes a difference. I would like to upgrade the RAM and get a bigger HD soon, but I want to fix this issue before introducing new hardware (and giving Apple something else to shift the blame too).
I'm experiencing the frequent but random spinning beachballs with just about any app including Safari, Firefox, Aperture, Mail, Pages, etc. Everything freezes up for at least 10-20 second or more, than resumes as normal. I didn't have this problem with my old white 2.0Ghz MacBook. Very frustrating.
I might try downgrading to EFI 1.6 tonight to see if that makes a difference. I would like to upgrade the RAM and get a bigger HD soon, but I want to fix this issue before introducing new hardware (and giving Apple something else to shift the blame too).
I bought one (albeit with 4 GB RAM) at the end of August and mine has had no problems. Even the Intel SSD drive I installed works as expected.
Im wondering, has anyone tried disabling sudden motion sensor and see if the beach balling still occurs?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1934
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1934
Well, after a couple of weeks with no beachballs using my stock 160GB HDD, I tried giving my 128GB Patriot Torqx SSD one more go around with the 1.6 firmware.
I SuperDuper'd the drive over using a SATA to USB dongle and all was well for a while. That was until Time Machine went to start backing up while at the same time Spotlight decided to start indexing the drive.
Then it all went to hell. Got the beachball, then the system mouse went dead, yet I could still use my Logitech wireless mouse (USB dongle attached). While the mouse was moving, the system itself was completely frozen -- no clicks registered, no keyboard presses.
Pissed off to no end, I shut down the machine, took out the SSD AGAIN, and I refuse to deal with this again until Apple gets their **** together!
I SuperDuper'd the drive over using a SATA to USB dongle and all was well for a while. That was until Time Machine went to start backing up while at the same time Spotlight decided to start indexing the drive.
Then it all went to hell. Got the beachball, then the system mouse went dead, yet I could still use my Logitech wireless mouse (USB dongle attached). While the mouse was moving, the system itself was completely frozen -- no clicks registered, no keyboard presses.
Pissed off to no end, I shut down the machine, took out the SSD AGAIN, and I refuse to deal with this again until Apple gets their **** together!
I went ahead and did the 1.6 downgrade to my stock 13" MacBook last night. Used it for about an hour so far, but I haven't seen a spinning beachball yet. (XBench reported a slightly higher score too.) I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I have a 13" MBP 2.26GHz that has EFI 1.7 installed, and I have had 0 problems. I upgraded the RAM to 4GB, and installed the intel 160GB G2 SSD. I don't recall having a single spinning beachball. This thing works perfectly! I also use it for work, so I am on it 8-10 hours a day. I couldn't be happier with it!
When did you purchase your MBP? If you have Coconut Battery installed, can you let us know the approximate date of manufacture? Did it come with EFI version 1.7 installed?