exscape Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 No BSOD, no nothing. I've unchecked "Automatically restart" on BSOD, still nothing. The last 100ms or so of audio repeats, for 5-10 seconds, then the computer reboots. This is starting to make me an angry man, I need to fix this before I go nuts! It happens at least twice a day, and I'm not sure why, nor can I find any connection between what I'm doing and the computers stability - except possibly for one thing, gaming. I'm not completely sure but it MIGHT only freeze when I use the graphics card heavily. I've tried to not use the wireless network, since I read about potential problems with it; I even uninstalled the card and used a good ol' CAT5e cable to connect to the network. 10 hours later, the computer freezes. So, I try new drivers for the card (from the Vista driver hunt thread; the drivers were made for 9x/2000/XP, so...), still the same. I try new graphics drivers to no avail. Anyone have a clue what might be going on? Oh, and there is nothing in the event log, the only messages in there are from the startup, nothing indicating that the computer is going down. Also, OS X has only crashed once, I think, but IF the graphics card is involved in this, then that would explain why only Windows is affected since I never use the GFX for more demanding things than the UI/Dashboard under OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40731-xp-stability-issues-on-macbook-pro-c2d/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonpool Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Try a clean installation of Windows XP without any other software except the OS and bootcamp drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40731-xp-stability-issues-on-macbook-pro-c2d/#findComment-291232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
exscape Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 Well, that's kinda my last resort, just before talking to Apple. I have in fact re-installed windows because of this, didn't help. Somebody else has got to have had problems with this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40731-xp-stability-issues-on-macbook-pro-c2d/#findComment-291775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 You say it has crashed in OSX? It may be hardware... My first 24" iMac would work 100% fine in tiger to start with. However, if i went into windows (which should be able to be as stable on a mac as it is on a real pc) and played a game, it would always lockup (graphics wise) sound would loop and after a little it would reset & chime. I ordered it with the better video card. Halflife 2 did this, Flatout 2, anything. It was within a few days of purchase, i called apple and explained the situation. I said that it hadn't crashed in OSX but in OSX i haven't got any intensive games, that would be why. They got me to run apple hardware test and reset pram etc which did nothing in this case. They gave me a case number and said to call back if any further issues. I had been doing this for awhile, running in windows, crash, reboot, run game, crash reboot. It would happen more in halflife 2 than anything, within 5 mins. I then went into OSX... and there was graphics corruption on the screen through the apple menus (lines) and went into safari, the apple homepage, and it kernal paniced. I called apple again, and useds the case number. I was calm and friendly on the phone and they were completely fine with everything. They even suggested that as the machine was so new i could have it replaced with a brand new one if i wanted to, rather than having it fixed. I did this, and my new one is rock solid. windows only crashes as much as windows should now. (ie windows doesn't crash at all, unless you load some crappy program that poorly written. XP is for the most part very stable for a microsoft OS.) I only use XP for games. As soon as parallells gets 3d hardware acceleration... mmmmm... anyway see what you can do to get it very repeatable, then call apple if a clean load of windows doesn't solve it. if the game crashes to the desktop etc, that's usually crappy software, but the looping sound and the spontaneous reboot thing in my experience is hardware. could be different in your situation though. I also used a digital camera to record video footage of the lockup (when it locked up sound looped just before reboot there was graphics dots on the screen too) i told apple i had these incase they wanted them for proof of fault when i returned it. they said it wasn't needed but my mahcine was replaced. If you machine is over 7 days old and you get it repaired it may be helpful for the service guys to have something like this or atleast something to test it with. See if the latest 3dmark brings it to it's knees. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40731-xp-stability-issues-on-macbook-pro-c2d/#findComment-293121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
exscape Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 (edited) It seems that the problem only occurs when watching some kind of movie and playing a game at the same time. I've tried multiple media players to no avail. In case somebody is wondering, I play EVE Online - a MMO game, so I can usually play windowed, and do some slacking while playing. I suppose I can live without watching stuff while playing, but I'd rather not... Any suggestions to fixing this? Edit: Oh, and yeah - when Parallels get 3D support... Byebye windows under boot camp. EVE is the only reason I use windows, so... Edited February 6, 2007 by exscape Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40731-xp-stability-issues-on-macbook-pro-c2d/#findComment-295701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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