MacBook Pro :: Partial Waking But No Display?
Feb 24, 2010
I'm having a serious issue here. It's very intermittent which makes it very difficult to "treat."
Every once and a while, I put my MacBook Pro (17" Unibody, 2009, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD 5400) to sleep and when I go to wake it up, you can hear the hard drive spinning up and you can feel the fans (not running fast at all; normal) if you put your hand by the vent... but no display. When I close the screen again, the pulsing light just stays steady. The hard drive and the fans continue to go. They never stop. It's happened ten times in the past month and it's driving me insane. I've found it in the Console, take a look here -- click for large version.
What are your thoughts? What does this mean?
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The only way I can get back to my computer is if I force shut down my computer. I've damaged the hierarchy of files by doing that (spotlight has had to reindex, sometimes I've had to boot up off my Snow Leopard disk and run disk utility to get it back to working).
I have reset the SMC and PRAM. It didn't fix it. Again, it happens so intermittently that I can never point out what causes it, if anything in particular does.
I'm about to sell my computer and I really need to get this fixed. Thoughts, anybody?
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Wed Apr 15 11:28:25 2009
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A9C68): Kernel trap at 0x00143b90, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x000003ad, CR3: 0x01879000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000001, EBX: 0x00000002, ECX: 0x0052ad64, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x000003ad, EBP: 0x60e3793c, ESI: 0x00000000, EDI: 0x0714f454
EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x00143b90, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x0b970010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x60e37758 : 0x12b4f3 (0x45b13c 0x60e3778c 0x1335e4 0x0)
0x60e377a8 : 0x1a9c68 (0x464700 0x143b90 0xe 0x463eb0)
0x60e37888 : 0x1a038d (0x60e378a0 0x0 0x60e3793c 0x143b90)
0x60e37898 : 0x143b90 (0xe 0x52680048 0x60e30010 0x7a40010)
0x60e3793c : 0x767a790 (0x1 0x0 0xb97e650 0x0)
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x2160c8
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mDNSResponder
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9G55
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBook5,1 (Mac-F42D89C8)
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