Given its elusive behaviour its quite hard to nail down whether the issue is a latent one that is triggered only now with the interaction of the GPU with advanced versions of OS X and applications or simply a weakness that only now becomes a full-blown hardware failure over the period of ageing of the machine. Unfortunately, we do not have a cure-all solution for this issue. So far our system has returned to a stable operating state but we are continuing to monitor it for now. We hope that this cures it because otherwise the sharing by other afflicted users on the internet seems to suggest that the probability of getting an exception repair free-of-charge from Apple is purely discretionary that will most likely involve long hours wrestling with AppleCare.
reset PRAM – restart the affected machine and held down CMD + ALT/OPTION + P + R.gfxCardStatus also allows a user to manually force the system to use either GPU but we haven’t had to do that so far and the system still appears stable installed gfxCardStatus v2.3 by Cody Krieger ( “props to you Cody! Many thanks!”) which alerts us whenever the system switches between the integrated Intel HD Graphics GPU and the discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M GPU.uninstalled Klei’s popular Don’t Starve game because it was the last application we installed prior to experiencing the sudden restarts and so far, we haven’t encountered any sudden restarts yet.Panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f8788ff1a): "GPU Panic: 5 3 7f 0 0 0 0 3 : NVRM: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff80f63c5000 0x0a5480a2, D0, have a unit suffering similar symptoms and the following is what we did so far: The commonality between all reports is that they exhibit Console panic logs that usually contain the following in the header of the log: "Mon May 11 12:26:20 2015 defective GPU (as per repair extension program).extensive demands of java-based applications.Some of the triggering events shared by the web community, include: a defective Graphic Processor Unit (GPU) in this case the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M or.The triggering event – whether its really caused by: Notwithstanding the cessation of the repair extension program, the really nagging issue at hand is the complexity in attempting to diagnose the source of the sudden restarts. Apple’s repair extension program covering this has officially ended:
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To avoid this choosing to not relaunch applications by selecting “cancel” instead of “Ok” will restart your Mac in a more stable state.Īs mentioned. If there is an application that originally triggered the restart, it will trigger another restart if the choice is made to relaunch all the applications upon restart. Whether you “wait a few seconds” or press a key, the machine eventually restarts and prompts the user to relaunch all the applications that were running prior to the sudden restart. Seconds later the machine powers up from a restart and displays the latest incarnation of Apple’s kernel panic message: What usually occurs is users suffer a sudden restart. It seems Apple’s repair extension program covering this known defect has ended.
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We hate to be the harbinger of bad tidings but there have been sporadic reports littered all over the internet from owners of 15″ Macbook Pro Mid 2010 (6,2) experiencing intermittent restarts that result in what appears to be a kernel panic.