Hi all,
Two days ago my computer started freezing with the bouncing ball of death. It never recovered from this, and I had to do a hard restart every time.
Most times, the restart did not work. It would try to boot but usually showed the picture of a folder with a question mark. When this occurred, if I tried to boot up to Recovery, it would go to Lion Internet Recovery and Disk Utility wouldn't even show the existence of a HD.
However, it seemed that if I waited at least an hour (not sure about this stat) that I'd be able to boot back up and everything would be normal for a bit.
Computer info:
MBP13 late 2010
8GB RAM
Intel 320 Series 300GB SSD
Lion 10.7.4
30GB free space on HD
Logs showed:
IO Surface Buffer errors (saw some weird references to this online)
HFS Complete lack of freeblks
Installed smcFanControl (to increase fan speed and see temp):
Everything would be fine for a while, then temp would spike to 140 F or more (with fan at 6000 rpm).
The MBP is under AppleCare, but the SSD is obviously after market. I bought it in the US but am currently in Brazil where it's more difficult (but not impossible) to receive service.
I ended up buying a new HD to test and not wait for service, but I don't really know if this is a HD problem. (I'm in the process of using Internet Recovery on the new HD and have posted a separate thread about this slow process - even though I have an excellent internet connection.)
I'm confused with all the symptoms! Anyone have any ideas?!
Thanks,
nick
Two days ago my computer started freezing with the bouncing ball of death. It never recovered from this, and I had to do a hard restart every time.
Most times, the restart did not work. It would try to boot but usually showed the picture of a folder with a question mark. When this occurred, if I tried to boot up to Recovery, it would go to Lion Internet Recovery and Disk Utility wouldn't even show the existence of a HD.
However, it seemed that if I waited at least an hour (not sure about this stat) that I'd be able to boot back up and everything would be normal for a bit.
Computer info:
MBP13 late 2010
8GB RAM
Intel 320 Series 300GB SSD
Lion 10.7.4
30GB free space on HD
Logs showed:
IO Surface Buffer errors (saw some weird references to this online)
HFS Complete lack of freeblks
Installed smcFanControl (to increase fan speed and see temp):
Everything would be fine for a while, then temp would spike to 140 F or more (with fan at 6000 rpm).
The MBP is under AppleCare, but the SSD is obviously after market. I bought it in the US but am currently in Brazil where it's more difficult (but not impossible) to receive service.
I ended up buying a new HD to test and not wait for service, but I don't really know if this is a HD problem. (I'm in the process of using Internet Recovery on the new HD and have posted a separate thread about this slow process - even though I have an excellent internet connection.)
I'm confused with all the symptoms! Anyone have any ideas?!
Thanks,
nick