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Ok guys and gals, I have an odd one for you.
First off, a preface:
I am an apple certified mac tech (ACMT). I know enough about my mac to rule out most of what could be tried by myself, a service provider, and or Apple, itself. This is what I'm working with: Macbook Pro 15, 2.2ghz i7, 8gb, 128ssd+750gb HDD, 1680x1050. 10.7.3 with all updates as of 4/30/12. (C02FX07PDF91).
Ok. So here's the problem. This happens anywhere from twice a day to twice a month. There seems to be no real pattern to the issue. I can be browsing the Internet, using an app (pretty much any semi-intensive app or higher has done this so far), playing a game (I frequent World of Warcraft). I haven't gotten it to happen while watching TV or movies (via Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, etc).
My machine will slowly start to freeze up. I first notice it when I try to do something small like open a new tab in my browser. After finding that doens't work, I try to close it. It never closes. I try to force quit. Force quit will hang. By this time everything is pretty much non-responsive except I see my status lights (from an app I have) on my menu bar doing what they normally do when I'm idling (almost always idle with a touch of activity here and there) and I watch my clock tick away. By this time the only way to recover is to power cycle. When I reboot, I head for my logs. No Kernel Panic log data and the system logs magically stopped recording entries at the time it first starting going down.
This prompted me to whip out my ASD (3S144 to be exact) for my mac. I ran ALL hardware tests on it over a period of 9 hours and NOTHING revealed itself. I was almost certain it was my primary hard drive. After 9 hours of off again and on again writing to it (about one full test cycle every 40 minutes), I was quite disappointed to see it was working fine. Turns out my memory is still good too. So I ran the OS tests. All of those passed, too, over 9 hours non-stop.
I'm stumped because I can almost guarantee it to happen if I was to do something like Install Photoshop from scratch that requires a lot of work from the processor and hard drive to do. It almost always freezes at the low 40s, if not then the 60s in terms of percentage of completion.
The only thing I haven't done is re-install my OS. I don't want to use my Time Machine backup because it's been going on for several months (and I've gotten used to it) so if it's an OS issue, my Time Machine won't go back far enough (I started using it after my issue started).
Any thoughts or ideas? Throw them at me, please!
Thanks!
First off, a preface:
I am an apple certified mac tech (ACMT). I know enough about my mac to rule out most of what could be tried by myself, a service provider, and or Apple, itself. This is what I'm working with: Macbook Pro 15, 2.2ghz i7, 8gb, 128ssd+750gb HDD, 1680x1050. 10.7.3 with all updates as of 4/30/12. (C02FX07PDF91).
Ok. So here's the problem. This happens anywhere from twice a day to twice a month. There seems to be no real pattern to the issue. I can be browsing the Internet, using an app (pretty much any semi-intensive app or higher has done this so far), playing a game (I frequent World of Warcraft). I haven't gotten it to happen while watching TV or movies (via Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, etc).
My machine will slowly start to freeze up. I first notice it when I try to do something small like open a new tab in my browser. After finding that doens't work, I try to close it. It never closes. I try to force quit. Force quit will hang. By this time everything is pretty much non-responsive except I see my status lights (from an app I have) on my menu bar doing what they normally do when I'm idling (almost always idle with a touch of activity here and there) and I watch my clock tick away. By this time the only way to recover is to power cycle. When I reboot, I head for my logs. No Kernel Panic log data and the system logs magically stopped recording entries at the time it first starting going down.
This prompted me to whip out my ASD (3S144 to be exact) for my mac. I ran ALL hardware tests on it over a period of 9 hours and NOTHING revealed itself. I was almost certain it was my primary hard drive. After 9 hours of off again and on again writing to it (about one full test cycle every 40 minutes), I was quite disappointed to see it was working fine. Turns out my memory is still good too. So I ran the OS tests. All of those passed, too, over 9 hours non-stop.
I'm stumped because I can almost guarantee it to happen if I was to do something like Install Photoshop from scratch that requires a lot of work from the processor and hard drive to do. It almost always freezes at the low 40s, if not then the 60s in terms of percentage of completion.
The only thing I haven't done is re-install my OS. I don't want to use my Time Machine backup because it's been going on for several months (and I've gotten used to it) so if it's an OS issue, my Time Machine won't go back far enough (I started using it after my issue started).
Any thoughts or ideas? Throw them at me, please!
Thanks!
