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Forum The Water Cooler LION + Nvidia = BSOD

LION + Nvidia = BSOD
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8:22 am
05/09/11


Nordy

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In this case BSOD = black screen of death.

 

Anyone else have this. I have a mid 2010 MBP with the 330M graphics chip and since upgrading to Lion I have constant BSOD, no commonality except that I have to click on something…. anything for it to happen. Sometimes it lasts an hour without crashing, other times its the first click I do when it reboots crashes it all over again.

 

Rang customer care on Wednesday and did their suggestions of a hdd repair (which didn't work) and reinstall of lion (yay, another 4 GB gone from my net cap) and no joy, the two reps I had on Wednesday were great, the first guy was hilarious, the 2nd a bit of a stick in the mud but was nice about it :P  rang again on Saturday and got the smarmiest wanker on the planet, there is no way to sugar coat this guys complete head up his arse attitude, never mind the 72 page thread full of people with exactly the same setup as me having exactly the same issue as me, never mind that these people are apparently being told by their genius reps, technicians etc that there is a known issue thats being looked into with a software update, any commonality is just speculation and wrong….. he was sure it was a software issue, so I told him I have already reinstalled lion, he said that was fine but he wanted me to erase and reinstall from scratch…. said no and asked for a manager, was told he was was line of escalation and that he was it…. anyways hung up on him and read though the thread again looking for info.

Discovered that beta 11C48 was supposed to be a possible fix. So I installed it, and still constant crashes (ugh, seriously ugh) so on Sunday after being sick to death of my mbp I bit the bullet, did a backup of my user folder, then rolled back to Snow Leopard and I am STILL plagued with the BSOD, something that was a rarity on Snow Leopard. I can remember 2 I think.

 

One thing I did notice, on Lion the core temps of both CPU and GPU seemed higher than what they where on Snow Leopard, I know I never saw 100C on Snow Leopard when I was just browsing, max I ever saw was 89 – 91C and thats when I was stressing the computer hard out with major processing happening (8hour photostitch in CS5). I am wondering if running it for the month and a bit on Lion has done something to the logic board since even rolling back doesnt seemed to have helped me any…

Any thoughts. 

9:32 am
05/09/11


AndrewNZ

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I'm no expert on these things, but I'll throw some ideas out there.

 

Seems very odd that rolling back didn't fix it. I suppose Lion could have updated firmware or drivers that weren't rolled back. You could have a crack at installing the latest nvidia driver. (if it'll run long enough to do it)

http://www.nvidia.com/object/q…..river.html

 

Is it something simple like dust buildup? Perhaps the lion install was just a coincidence. iFixit has some pretty thorough guides for getting things apart. A quick look indicates that the heatsinks on these machines are pretty small, it wouldn't take much to affect cooling.

 

Also, you could consider creating a lion install disk, it won't take many reinstalls to kill your cap if you're downloading Lion every time.

This post http://www.iphonewzealand.co.n…..y-to-roar/ has links to howto's.

11:59 am
05/09/11


Nordy

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Dust isnt the problem, it sits on a griffin stand thats just two metal arc thingys, so its nice and high.

 

Thinking its possible that lion updated firmware (which is annoying) so need to do something about finding original snow leopard discs, hopefully they are still at my parents (we were on holiday when it arrived).

 

Last time I tried to install something it took for BSODs just to download the file (clicking on it to download would kill it) and then 3 more to get it to install completely….. but will give it a go…

1:57 pm
05/09/11


Nordy

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spoke to Apple again today and the reps I had today were awesome. They have extended my hardware warranty and it goes in for diagnostics once I have it all backed up.

3:53 pm
27/09/11


Nordy

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Just an update, I am now on my 2nd logic board, so far so good….

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191083 good to know its really not just me…

6:56 pm
20/01/12


Nordy

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So after months and months of bashing my head against a brick wall DSE made it right by replacing the whole laptop with the latest equivilant model when the 4th logic board had errors after replacement and apple would only do a 5th logic board replacement…… Idiots… either way I have a computer that works again. Stoked!
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