toology Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 I just installed SL and updated it to the latest versions. Everything seems to be runnig fine, but I started getting random freezes. Not a kernel panic, just freeze. I reboot the computer and it happens again after 15 minutes. Once during installation of some app from the store, once while browsing with google chrome. I don't know how to diagnose it since no errors pop up. I use a dsdt file for my asus p5b, along with efi string for the graphics, voodoo hda and lin2mac realtek lan driver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258963-random-freezes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Asus P5B, Realtek LAN. What else? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258963-random-freezes/#findComment-1695548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toology Posted June 11, 2011 Author Share Posted June 11, 2011 P5B, Core2Quad, onboard sound (some hd audio that works with voodoohda), Sound blaster audigy 2 (works with Kx driver which I haven't installed yet), GeForce 450 GTS, onboard realtek lan, 2 external usb hdds, usb mouse and keyboard, 4 gb RAM, webcam without a working driver (I use it when booting into windows). SL is updated, I use Chimera as bootloader, I installed tonymac Nvidia driver pack v2, voodoohda latest and lin2mac latest for realtek lan. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258963-random-freezes/#findComment-1696102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotalHomeTech Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 P5B, Core2Quad, onboard sound (some hd audio that works with voodoohda), Sound blaster audigy 2 (works with Kx driver which I haven't installed yet), GeForce 450 GTS, onboard realtek lan, 2 external usb hdds, usb mouse and keyboard, 4 gb RAM, webcam without a working driver (I use it when booting into windows). SL is updated, I use Chimera as bootloader, I installed tonymac Nvidia driver pack v2, voodoohda latest and lin2mac latest for realtek lan. Something I recently figured out that was helpful was I downloaded / copied from cds, different kernels and saved them in / I named them all like m107_kernel, m108_kernel, etc according to their versions and used the kernel name at chimera prompt to see which one worked better. The new 10.8 kernel works great for my i3 laptop, on fresh install I now copy it in then reboot to it to install combo update and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Using this method allows me to finish the combo update where as with the normal kernel it will not. Long story short...try new 10.8 kernel (or others) and see how that does. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258963-random-freezes/#findComment-1696115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toology Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 I'll try checking the system log when I get home. I find it strange that I didn't get a kernel panic warning if it is a kernel related problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258963-random-freezes/#findComment-1696539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 GeForce 450 GTS Type 'fermi freeze' in the forum search box or google. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258963-random-freezes/#findComment-1696805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toology Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Thanks for that, it's probably my problem too. Looks like I'll have to wait for Lion. Nawcom is already working on a simplified retail installation method. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258963-random-freezes/#findComment-1696979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macslap Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Well...I don't know if it will help you or not but I was having random freezes too. Basically what would happen is my screen would just turn grey with very thin vertical lines about a couple millimeters apart the whole way across the screen. I'm still testing this out but i think the reason it was freezing was because of EVOenabler.kext. So I removed it from the extras folder and rebooted. Here's the odd part. I've never been able to connect my monitor to the HDMI port and use it connected that way in Snow Leopard...i always had to go VGA. Since removing the EVOenabler.kext....no crashes and my monitor is now recognized connected to HDMI. I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.7 with an ATI Radeon 4670 graphics card with QE/CI working just fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258963-random-freezes/#findComment-1698011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajaylion Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 fermi freeze happens in snow leopard and predecessors. i'm running gts 450 on lion gm without freezes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258963-random-freezes/#findComment-1710396 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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