I have a MBP 13in bought in September 2010, running OS X Version 10.6.8. It has 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and 4GB Memory with 250 GB Hard Drive. My MBP randomly freezes and it is predictable in the it will freeze almost every time I put it to sleep and then open the lid 5-10 minutes later. After the lid is opened, it will completely freeze after about 3 seconds. When I say freeze I mean that the clock stops, the mouse freezes, no response to keyboard shortcuts or anything. All I can do is a hard shutdown holding down the power button. I have completely erased my hard drive and reinstalled Snow Leopard with no success. I have verified and repaired permissions and still the same thing happens. I have also reset my PRAM with no success either. I am out of ideas and can't seem to find anything to help me out after spending several hours googling and trying all of the above. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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It's under warranty, seems easy enough to reproduce, take it to an Apple store (make an appointment first).
Thanks for the reply blueroom!
I was hoping someone would have some other options (other than taking it in to an Apple Store because it will be 3-5 days before I can make it to one).
I was hoping someone would have some other options (other than taking it in to an Apple Store because it will be 3-5 days before I can make it to one).
I recommend you to back up right away because this probably means something is failing. It also could be your temperature levels, do you monitor them?
WickedPuddin, I have already backed everything up because I did the complete erase of the hard drive and reinstalled Leopard. My Mac actually froze three times while trying to write this reply. I finally got tired and switched to an old desktop. It doesn't seem to be the temperature because it was cold to the touch and still froze within 2 seconds of opening the clam shell. It is really aggravating. It has frozen on me 4 times this morning in the 15 minutes that I tried to use it. Any other suggestions are very much appreciated.
did it ever freeze during ur fresh OS install? if it froze it could be a hardware issue and u need to take it to an apple store.
if it didn't freeze during install it's probably a software issue.
did you install a lot of things after ur fresh OS install?
if it didn't freeze during install it's probably a software issue.
did you install a lot of things after ur fresh OS install?
It didn't freeze during the install. I didn't install anything other than the software that came with the computer and then Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Nothing else has been installed.