Hi all, I've read many threads similar to this but I can not for the life of me figure this problem out!
My wife has a 2006 15" MPB Core2Duo. Recently in the past couple months it has been locking up and the only thing to do is hold down the power button to turn it off. It usually happens when she is using Illustrator or Safari. She'll click on something and the never ending pinwheel will appear. The mouse can move, but you can't click on anything and force quit does not work. I should also say I upgraded her RAM with a pair of Mushkin DIMMs about a year ago but the freezing is only a recent problem and memtest says they are fine.
Here's what I've tried in order. Problem is always the same.
I honestly have no idea where to go from here and Apple Care expired over a year ago. The only thing I can think of is a faulty logic board and I would rather just buy her a new imac than replace the logic board.
Any insight?? Would really appreciate it.
My wife has a 2006 15" MPB Core2Duo. Recently in the past couple months it has been locking up and the only thing to do is hold down the power button to turn it off. It usually happens when she is using Illustrator or Safari. She'll click on something and the never ending pinwheel will appear. The mouse can move, but you can't click on anything and force quit does not work. I should also say I upgraded her RAM with a pair of Mushkin DIMMs about a year ago but the freezing is only a recent problem and memtest says they are fine.
Here's what I've tried in order. Problem is always the same.
- Bought a cooling stand
- Upgrade installation to Snow Leopard (from tiger)
- Clean installation of Snow Leopard
- Check CPU temps (sometimes hits 82, usually around 70-75)
- Running Apple Hardware Test ( no problems found)
- Creating a new Admin user account
- Repairing Permissions in disk utility
- Checking disk in disk utility (no problems found)
- Running full memtest 3 different times in single user mode (no problems found)
I honestly have no idea where to go from here and Apple Care expired over a year ago. The only thing I can think of is a faulty logic board and I would rather just buy her a new imac than replace the logic board.
Any insight?? Would really appreciate it.