I have a Macbook pro I bought used 6 months ago. It would about 3 years old running OSX 10.6.4 with 4g ram and a fresh battery. Now my problem is all of a sudden every time I close the lid (or use the menu) to sleep it totally locks up. The sleep light stays lit the whole time (no pulsing) when I open the lid to wake it the light dims a bit but the screen stays black. End up having to hard boot it! And then it takes 5 minutes to boot ontop of it all. When booting it gets to a blueish gray screen and hangs there for 3 or 4 mins. Any ideas?
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[solved]MBP Freezes every time I close the lid
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Sounds like it's a failing hard drive or something corrupt with the OS. Have you tried repairing disk permissions? Repairing the disk? Archiving and Installing?
test in a new user, see if the problem re-occurs - might be system wide issue or a user specific issue!
update! Still problems. Last night I reset the pmu and pram. Repaired permissions. Closed the lid and sleep light came on solid and bright, open the lid the screen stays black, no responce from the mouse or keyboard. Sleep light is still on but dim. Left the lid open and by morning it had woken up finally. Any ideas?
Solved the problem. Did about 4 full days a searching and found an article somewhere about the fire wire ports being bad and causing problems. Removed the .kext file for the firewire now it all works fine but the firewire port. But I can live with that.
