MacBook Pro Intermittent Black Screen or Loss of Video

October 13, 2011 19 Comments
MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010): Intermittent black screen or loss of video

Apple has determined that a small number of MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) computers may intermittently stop displaying video on the built-in display or on an external display connected to the MacBook Pro. In this situation, you may also see a restart warning message before the video is lost or the display turns black or gray. Affected computers were manufactured between April 2010 and February 2011.

Via Apple Support

Update: This issue has been addressed with the release of MacBook Pro Video Update 1.0 — but it’s only good if you’re running Lion (10.7.2+). If you choose to remain on Snow Leopard, you should make a Genius Bar appointment at your favorite Apple store to have the problem addressed. Chances are you’ll get a new motherboard out of it. See the support article for more information.

It seems the MacBook Pro/Lion Black Screen of Death™ has not been solved yet has been addressed. The good thing is Apple acknowledges it really is a problem.

I updated my Lion partition to 10.7.2 yesterday, and it seemed more stable than it was before – though I didn’t get much of a chance to really push the system. I was planning to update my production system this evening, but I think I might hold off a little longer until there’s more info from Apple in the article.

Has this bug caused you grief? How have you dealt with it?

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Yasu 2.6.5 Returning Errors for Some Users

January 21, 2010

Some users have reported that Yasu 2.6.5 sometimes reports an error has occurred after running a maintenance pass, with the following entry in the log file:

Error number: 2
Additional info: sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I’m aware of this issue, and a fix is being worked on. If you’d like to help testing the latest private beta, drop me a line via my contact form and I’ll give you a download link.

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