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MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 Problems
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This doesnt sound good 
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/10/13/bad-news-for-efi-1-7-basedmacbook-pro-owners
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/10/13/bad-news-for-efi-1-7-basedmacbook-pro-owners
This doesnt sound good
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/10/13/bad-news-for-efi-1-7-basedmacbook-pro-owners
I downgraded mine to 1.6 after some bad quicktime issues. It's been perfect since. As I'm on the 5400 320gb standard drive it wont bottleneck performance.
Here's hoping when I go to an SSD either 1.8 is out or the SSD is compatible with 1.7...
After all the fuss that was made before, it's surprising apple isn't on this. Customers have a choice, have reliable 1.5 support or flaky 3 support. On their current generation flagship models too!
Yeh I downgraded to the 1.6 firmware and my WD Scorpio Black 7200rpm drive is fine.
Can you make a AJA system test screenshot please with results of your WD scorpio?
I wish i can downgrade but the recovery DMG doesnt work on a Macbook Pro 17 mid 2009!
I'm in the same way as below. Any news on 1.6 Firmware for 17" unibody ? I'm becoming mad, changed 6 different drives. :-(
Why do i have this gut feeling that this issue will never get fixed by apple?
Because it won't. I wonder what Apple does when you take it into the store to get fixed? Do they replace the HDD or logic board?
There will be no fix for this.
1.Tape the freezes occuring, go to apple store, show video, get logic board replaced
2.Do this three times.
3.Call apple care, demand a new machine (exchange)
Repeat step three until you get a machine which doesn't freeze.
1.Tape the freezes occuring, go to apple store, show video, get logic board replaced
2.Do this three times.
3.Call apple care, demand a new machine (exchange)
Repeat step three until you get a machine which doesn't freeze.
mmm Just to clarify one thing guys, are we allowed to use 3rd party harddrives on our macbook? Because the last time I went to an Authorised Apple Service Provider, I was told that they do not support 3rd party drives and we're not allowed to change the harddrives for new mid unibody 09 mbp
HD's are user replaceable. Whoever told you that you can't change them yourself is an idiot.
Concerning this issue, having a sata2 or 3d party hard drive pretty much denies you any service, as they will most probably blame it on the hard drive itself and ask you to contact the hard drive manufacturer.
I got my machine exchanged because it manifested the beach balls with the stock drive.
Installing a custom hard drive does not void your warrantee, but they have the right to blame any performance issue on the third party (unsupported) hard drive.
To really put this in lamien/real world example would be.
(Actually happened btw) Lets suppose you buy a BMW of the year, you decide to swap out the stock headers and exhaust system for a remus set, all goes well, except you realize that the ECU/fuel management system does not like your set up, it is only logical for bmw to refuse to help you since it is not their parts so they have no responsibility. What they would suggest is deal with Remus (muffler and headers)
Now wether or not there is a flaw with the ecu/fuel system or not will most likely be blamed on the unsupported parts.
Now back to our issues, the best thing would be to swap in the original hard drive, emulate the problem, document it and get an exchange.
Found an update at Apple using Software Update preference pane today, may be related to these problems. The update is named "Performance Update" and the description said something about resolving pauses, sorry can't remember the exact wording. I am running a Macbook Pro 2.53Ghz 15" mid June model with a 250GB HD (Toshiba). I installed it, it forced a reboot, and System Profiler shows no changes to the firmware that I can detect. No problems yet (wasn't having any to begin with).
Anyone with more concrete information?
Anyone with more concrete information?
thats good to hear. hopefully more people can confirm this.
i'm a little skeptical to update straight away now!
been browsing and IM-ing for the past hour unplugged, switching between spaces...no beachballing yet.
usually i will beachball within minutes when my laptop is unplugged
Today's "Performance Update 1.0" does not resolve the issue with the implementation the the SATA II interface in EFI firmware 1.7.
It appears to resolve other beachballing that some have reported on 17" MBPs and such but it does not address this issue.
It appears to resolve other beachballing that some have reported on 17" MBPs and such but it does not address this issue.
1) Because I've tried it.
I had the rollback to 1.6 applied when it first was released to Apple Stores. This resolved the frequent and annoying freezing I was seeing (video). Today, upon hearing of the new update… I re-updated to EFI 1.7… verified the issue was there… applied the "Performance Update 1.0"… verified the issue was still there… have scheduled another firmware rollback for tomorrow.
2) Because it's an OS update, not a firmware update. An OS update will do nothing to resolve hardware interface issues that also show themselves with other OSes -- and people have seen this SATA II interface issue with Windows, Linux, etc. running on their MBPs.
The update appears to have resolved some beachballing issues that people have been having, but it does not address this issue with the SATA II interface implementation in EFI 1.7 firmware.