New problem - Yosemite total lockup

DannyDrama · 18 Jan 2015 at 06:35

So before I did a clean install I had a nasty problem where my rMBP would simply freeze and needed the power button held down to switch off. I assumed a clean install would fix this but it's still here! :mad:

What can I do from here? I have pretty much no idea what to do, the software is newly installed and I didn't back up from TM so nothing dodgy got transferred either. :confused:

Deleted member 77746 · 18 Jan 2015 at 09:19

It's a hardware problem then if you are getting it from different OS's. Take it into an Apple store to have it diagnosed from their end.

DannyDrama · 18 Jan 2015 at 11:34

Any idea what could cause such a problem? Don't really have money to get it fixed right now so it might be a case of waiting until it's totally borked/I have the money to get it fixed. Only two or three months out of warranty, too.

iSam · 20 Jan 2015 at 19:47

Have you run the latest software update? Have you reset the PRAM and/or SMC?

slinxy · 20 Jan 2015 at 20:42

run the hardware test a few times to see if it picks anything up. http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201257

When you did the yosemite install, did you wipe the hdd first? if not it would have been an upgrade not a clean install.

DannyDrama · 20 Jan 2015 at 23:22

iSam said:
Have you run the latest software update? Have you reset the PRAM and/or SMC?

Yeah everything is updated but nope to the last two, would not even know how or why without a bit of research.

slinxy said:
run the hardware test a few times to see if it picks anything up. http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201257

When you did the yosemite install, did you wipe the hdd first? if not it would have been an upgrade not a clean install.

Cheers, I'll give that a go tomorrow. It was a clean install, I had a Maverick install and a Yosemite beta on a partition. I wiped Yosemite but couldn't extend my Maverick partition so I nuked it all from a USB install. I didn't restore anything but what I could hack out of my iPhone as I was dumb enough to lose it all during backup.

iSam · 21 Jan 2015 at 22:27

Google it, there should be an Apple support guide.

DannyDrama · 21 Jan 2015 at 22:37

iSam said:
Google it, there should be an Apple support guide.

Have done, the apple page wouldn't open but it sounds easier and less scary than I was thinking. Thanks for the tip.