The macbook pros of that age are succeptable to the nvidia problem (I have one) The symptom for me though was that one morning the laptop was simply dead. I'd get it looked at by apple store even though its working as there is a parts recall out and yours may be eligible (free).
I installed mavericks on mine as a completely clean install - I erased the disk with zeros rather than fast erase and haven't had any problems, I put the mavericks installer onto a usb hard drive with a long terminal command that google will help you find. I haven't re-time machined it yet and it was set up as a from scratch computer, as it had been updated in place from 10.5 to 10.6 to 10.7 to 10.8 and had picked up loooads of cruft along the way :-) I have gone for the full disk encryption which Im pretty impressed with though! On 29 October 2013 22:07, Testcard <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Sam, > > I'm reinstalling Mavericks one more time , then I will do as you suggest. > I never had this freeze issue before I installed Mavericks so it seems > linked somehow. Will send the screenshots shortly. > > Adrian. > > Sent from my iPad > > On 29 Oct 2013, at 22:48, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Run a time machine backup with the Console app open, then you’ll be able > to see (hopefully) the last thing running before it freezes. Either > copy/paste or take a picture and send it to me, I’ll see if I can see what > could be happening. > > Usually a completely frozen screen is a RAM error or dodgy graphics card > soldering, especially if you’ve got an NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT. > > Regards > > Sam > [image: MacAmbulance] [image: > facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> [image: > twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> [image: > linkedin]<http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance > Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development *Sam Mullen* > +44 (0)7747778022 > [email protected] > www.macambulance.co.uk > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in > error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > > On 29 Oct 2013, at 21:42, Testcard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > I upgraded to Maverick on its release, > On my MacBook Pro 2.2ghz 15inch intel core duo 4gb 667 MHz. Initially I > had no problems then 'time machine' backups resulted in a frozen screen. > I've tried disk utility with no luck. Even that freezes on commencement > with the disk. I then erased the disk (stupid I now know!) but a fresh disk > makes no difference. I'm a bit desperate as I cannot see what the issue is. > I also reinstalled another Maverick in case the original might be > corrupted. > > Any thoughts very welcome. > > Adrian. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
