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Have you installed all the updates? Jumping from 10.5.8 to 10.8 will most likely require firmware updates.
Macbook pro freezes up, mouse won't even move
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I did a fresh install of 10.8 on the SSD when it was brand new and I did the one firmware update from Apple's site that was available.
I would also do all software updates as they came down from Apple, the last one being to mavericks.
I just used the old 10.5 hard drive in a USB dock to test boot with.
I would also do all software updates as they came down from Apple, the last one being to mavericks.
I just used the old 10.5 hard drive in a USB dock to test boot with.
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Try the SSD from the USB adapter. Those drive cables are also known to cause issues.
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I swapped out the SSD and put it on the usb adapter and put the original user's hard drive back in on the internal sata cable. The system booted up fine to his hard drive and ran good (this is still on 10.5.8 or so). I then tried booting to the SSD via the usb cable. Held down option, selected the macintosh HD with the usb symbol and then it hung for a while with the apple logo and the spinning "gear". I may not have given it long enough, since usb is slower, but I did wait a couple minutes, still hanging.
I put the SSD in my windows machine and ran gsmartcontrol on partedmagic and the SMART data looks perfect, it passed and shows nothing abnormal.
I'm thinking a reinstall and restore from time machine is in order on the SSD??
I put the SSD in my windows machine and ran gsmartcontrol on partedmagic and the SMART data looks perfect, it passed and shows nothing abnormal.
I'm thinking a reinstall and restore from time machine is in order on the SSD??
That would probably be easiest. I would reinstall then migrate from the backup. Another option is to run DiskWarrior on the drive, but if you have a time machine backup there doesn't seem to be much point, except that if it works it would be faster, but a reinstall would be a safer bet.
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I reinstalled after erasing the drive and manually backing some stuff up, because in the recovery partition, selecting restore from time machine, just gave me an error code 0 saying that the backup could not be opened?! I really didn't have too much on there, so no biggie, but I did grab my user folder and the applications folder.
After reinstalling mavericks, I thought I'd try the recovery partition again and what do you know, this time I was able to see the dates of the backups in time machine. I picked October 24 which was the last backup and to my surprise, it restored and everything seems to be there and running great.
Apparently something got corrupted. The last thing I was doing before the freeze was downloading some ISO files and my ethernet cord had come unplugged. I don't why this would have hosed the whole system like that, but that's the only thing I can figure after going through all this. Kind of scary if that's what did it.
After reinstalling mavericks, I thought I'd try the recovery partition again and what do you know, this time I was able to see the dates of the backups in time machine. I picked October 24 which was the last backup and to my surprise, it restored and everything seems to be there and running great.
Apparently something got corrupted. The last thing I was doing before the freeze was downloading some ISO files and my ethernet cord had come unplugged. I don't why this would have hosed the whole system like that, but that's the only thing I can figure after going through all this. Kind of scary if that's what did it.
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I have run into unrecoverable OS X issues but it's only after the machine has been running for a couple of years. Happened on my MBP, some kind of Java related issue. Running browser and VM's caused a lot of hanging up. Tried everything but in the end a bare metal and manual reload of the app's was the only thing that worked. The TM restore restored the problem along with everything else.
One for the record books I guess.
You weren't by chance using Vuze, were you?
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Had a customer that was having the same type symptoms. Freezing, etc. All hardware passes tests. So I did a restore from time machine from a point before he had problems. Same thing so I start digging around. Turns out he had one of those "fix all of your software problems" apps and it was hanging up while evaluating Fusion. Wish I had recorded the app name. At any rate got rid of it and everything worked perfect.
Everyone and their dog has MacKeeper installed these days, the only issue I've seen it cause is where it takes 100% of CPU usage. I don't trust it even when it does "work", I always ask customers if I can remove it. I'm sure you know all about MacKeeper, so I guess you are probably referring to another one.
The reason why I ask about Vuze is that I have had two customers who said they recently installed Vuze before their Mac stopped booting up. (they of course thought they got a virus). Couldn't find any hardware problems, DiskWarrior fixed the issue.
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