Since installation of Leopard on my main system here at Mactropolis… Some funny things have happened.
First, on Halloween of all days, my system (15″ Macbook Pro / 2.33GHz) started ‘flickering’ and then a veil of horizontal lines draped down the screen like a curtain coming down at a broadway show. Sounds weird I know, but that’s exactly what happened. I attributed this to the fact that it was Halloween and Mr. Jobs was probably playing a cruel trick on me.
Well, a few days later I got an error I could understand. The mac stopped, I got the grey screen with Apple error message to restart the computer. Odd, I thought.. There must be some instability here perhaps with apps that aren’t suited to work well with Leopard? Anyways, I restarted the system and it has been fine since.
But this has still has raised my concern levels.
Has anyone else out there experienced similar things? I want to know if I’m all alone here. We have 5 systems here in the office and mine was the only one to have these problems occur.
Keeping my fingers crossed that it’s all smooth sailing from here.
written by Mr. Mayor
November 5th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Congratulations! You just experienced your very own kernel panic!
Think of it like the blue screen of death for the Mac. These aren’t as common nowadays as before, but they do tend to happen mostly with new software that still has a bug here and there. There’s really not much you can do except file a bug report to Apple — and try not to replicate the steps that caused the error or chances are you might get it again.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
I has similar issues on my 2.33 MacBook Pro with Tiger and it led to a logic board replacement under Apple Care. I now have 10.5 installed and have had zero issues across the board thus far.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Cool Frank, thanks for that!
That’s exactly what I did.. Submitted the bug report knowing that Apple will get around to fixing whatever it was.
As far as avoiding the steps I took to cause the error… Oh boy, I have no idea what I was doing at the time
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
im having ferocious trouble with my mbp. got it in november and it has not been smooth. time machine issues that were not fixed with update, error 10810 after a couple hours use, system freeze after a long time in sleep mode. i say i have to restart the computer about twice a day (on a good day!). who do i turn to?? am i alone? i cant find any info on the net about these problems.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
grodge, I’m experiencing the same. I thought it was a RAM issue, but it still happens w/a different chip. Have you had any luck trouble shooting? I’ve done a few clean installs, absolutely no dice.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I have had similar issues that Grodge describes. My mbp has been a real letdown since I bought it in November 2007. After a faulty optical drive and logic board replacement, I have regular keyboard freezes and serious problems with time machine and sleep. Both render internet access unavailable and require restarts. Total bummer. My keyboard also sucks. Sluggish and really annoying. I never had any issues with my G4 Powerbook, which I happily used for 7 yrs until I had to put it down last year.
April 11th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I think that Macbooks are really great to have, however I too, get the “kernel panic” whenever two or more apps are running at the same time…or sometimes just out of nowhere like in the middle of a movie! Also very annoying!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I purchased my computer in Aug 2007. The screen broke within 3 days, but the store was kind enough to swap it out for a new computer. I upgraded the new computer to Leopard the day the program came out. My keyboard stopped working once or twice but I thought the issue was resolved when the new firmware came out. Everything was running great until this past month. First, my computer would wake from sleep, but the screen would remain black, so I would have to do a hard reboot. Then, my keyboard and track pad (this is a continuing problem) sporadically would go out of commission. The latest problem is the kernel problem (the curtain of death descends) and I am asked to restart (which, if I’m lucky, I can do if my trackpad is working, lest I have to perform a hard reboot again). Some one help! I have reset the PRAM multiple times and this resolves the keyboard issue temporarily. I took the computer in and they said I have to send it to Apple. This sucks because I have finals this week and I need my laptop to take the exams in class (my school is out of loaners). What is going on? I thought this was a software problem, but reloading Leopard did not work (archiving of course). If this was a hardware problem, why does the computer work sometimes and not others? Any secret fix would be great (at least until Finals are over when I can send this computer to apple).
June 5th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
It’s been irritating as hell to me!
I’ve been doing a lot of e-mail writing lately.
I’ll have completed a 2 paragraph long message, and it freezes up and wont send.
terrible!
June 12th, 2008 at 4:19 am
I finally got my first ever Mac this week - a Macbook Pro to be more precise - I’ve used it two days in a row running nothing more than Adium, Firefox and VMWare Fusion (Windows programmer by trade) - I’ve noticed my RAM is pretty much 100% taken, I occasionally get OS lockups (dock/menubar/programs), if I can get the system to shutdown via the powerbutton it takes about 10 minutes mid-lockups to get it done, otherwise its a hard reset.
So far - impressed with alot of nice features (love auto-dim and lighted keys) - but also slightly disapointed as I was always told OSX was slimmer and more stable than XP, so far I’ve had to restart the macbook maybe 3 times a day.
I will try to add extra RAM (although I already have 2GB) - but I’m slightly worried……
June 20th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Purchased MacBook pro in Dec. 07 (going from G4 which I never had problems with for 4 years) and have had one freeze after the other, especially since I ‘ve started using iphoto with my new digital camera. I have had to force quit it many times. When I click on pictures to open sometimes it opens them in “bit looking” garble accompanied by the spinning ball. This seems to happen quite frequently when I am in “view full screen” and seems to be getting worse. Today I had puzzle looking things showing up in random places on the screen.
Who knows. When the “fan” starts up it seems to interfere with the programs I have running. When I have it in “view full screen” I also can’t switch between pictures via top display without getting spinning ball. Slow.
Also the noise that it makes at times sounds like the bank drive-in-teller capsule shoot or like an airplane getting ready to take off.
When I went to open Itunes a few days ago none of my music was there.
I am not a computer wizard so my daughter helped me drag my music folder into itunes. All of my playlists were gone.
REALLY disappointed so far in this computer.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:19 am
I have had the SAME problem with my Macbook, I called Apple Care like 50 million times but they never FIXED it