This temporary solution, which of the many shared in the community support forums provided by Apple is without doubt the one with the highest success rate. Many users were however, happy to take a performance hit as they were absolutely desperate to stop the excessive kernel panics, which rendered their £2,500 Macs into little more use than a £2 paper weight.
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The main issue with this fix was that, to have a chance of temporarily fixing the issue, you had to restrict the Macs capabilities to using on the integrated Intel graphics card, which is the least powerful of the two graphics cards shipped with the MacBook Pro (the other external card being the nVidea card). And still, things were no better.Īs mentioned in our previous article a solution, albeit temporary, that seemed to work was the use of the freeware program gfxCardStatus, which, when used to stop the dynamic switching of the graphics card, seemed to work.
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Firmware update 2.6 was this time supposed to be the saviour of the MacBook Pros all over the country experiencing this weird and disabling bug in Apples flagship operating system. Many users vented further frustration in the Apple community on their support forums and again another announcement was made by Apple on the support forums that this was likely being caused by a firmware issue, which it was promptly announced would be upgraded in the near future. 10.7.2 was released, everybody updated and……… nothing changed. Users eagerly anticipated this update, to free them of this catastrophic ailment of their once mighty machine, however disappointment was to come.
It was initially indicated that a fix for the bug would be available in the 10.7.2 update to the OS X operating system. Around 12 months ago, Apple appear to have finally conceded that there was a problem with the aptly named ‘Black Screen of Death’ (silent kernel panics) was due to a low level hardware and OS X bug.
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Following in depth research into this issue, we discovered that Apple initially for six months denied that the problem was cause by Apple hardware or software, instead indicating that it must be third party software and hardware that users are adding to their machines. One, it’s doubtful that this is the only solution, or necessarily the best, however, our tests have shown that it should work in a lot of circumstances, if not the majority.Īs some of you will remember, we reported two days ago on the plight of MacBook Pro users experiencing kernel panics persistently out of the blue. Now firstly, there’s a couple of points that we need to make.
Following numerous hours of investigation by DPS Computing into the OS X ‘superbug’, which causes repeated kernel panics over and over again with apparently no common cause, we have uncovered a solution that, in testing, has proved to work and correct the critical bug in the OS X operating system, which Apple have been attempting to deal with for the past 18 months.
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