Mountain Lion Unresponsive every couple hours, needs hard reset

[penskyc]

Hello Everyone,

I have 2 hackintoshs and when Mountain Lion Came out, I went out and purchased 2 120gb ssds and installed mountain lion on each for each computer, One is running fine, the other which is a Gigabyte GA-h67ma-usb3-b3 with 6gb ram and an i3 with hd3000, I am running an hdmi which is giving me sound, I edited my dsdt and applehda audio, for mouintain lion and it seems to work fine on this aswell.. This computer is mostly just my server and sits there, I usually dont have the screen on and just let it do its work. Ever since I have installed Mountain lion it has been almost useless cause every couple hours I cannot connect to it via, afp, vnc, smb etc.. I turn on the screen and the computer is frozen. I have looked in console, and there doesn't really seem to be a common demoninator between the freezes, I originally thought it was a fseventsu SLOWDOWN, but it has not appeared in the logs the last couple of times.

The one really wierd issue is everytime I try to restart I get a you need to restart your computer, hold down power button etc. which I think only appears when you ger a KP? any help on this would be appreciated! thanks!

 

[dostman]

Are you using Crucial SSDs? Try to upgrade their firmware.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4141088?start=0&tstart=0

 

[penskyc]

Are you using Crucial SSDs? Try to upgrade their firmware.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4141088?start=0&tstart=0

im using OCZ but I will give this a read anyway, thanks!

 

[kdha200501]

I encountered freeze once, too. I was browsing the Internet with Safari at the time, suddenly everything is unresponsive except mouse can still move around. I guessed it was a Java problem, not sure if it's the same cause.

 

[penskyc]

I encountered freeze once, too. I was browsing the Internet with Safari at the time, suddenly everything is unresponsive except mouse can still move around. I guessed it was a Java problem, not sure if it's the same cause.

No my issue is very strange, I dont use this computer for anything but a server, so it sits on the desktop with nothing going on most of the time. When it freezes it just seems the keyboard and mouse dont work, I try unplugging and replugging but nothing happens, I see the clock is moving though, It also loses connection to the internet i guess and the stuff i have running, is not accessible anymore from within or outside my network.

 

[kdha200501]

When mine crashes (more often now), Mouse is free to move, SSH is working. So I can remote login to "sudo reboot". Unfortunately I haven't found out exactly what is causing it to crash either.

 

[penskyc]

When mine crashes (more often now), Mouse is free to move, SSH is working. So I can remote login to "sudo reboot". Unfortunately I haven't found out exactly what is causing it to crash either.

your very lucky than, i dont have any keyboard or mouse access and ssh def does not work, it loses netowrk connection immediately, but like i said, clock still runs, may have to wipe it to a clean slate again :/

 

[kdha200501]

after unplugging all usb peripherals and adding them back one at a time, I'm starting to believe the bluetooth dongle is the elephant in the room, Will do a Marathon test this weekend to confirm that.

meanwhile, do you have any USB peripherals that you suspect? Especially BT dongles.

 

[penskyc]

after unplugging all usb peripherals and adding them back one at a time, I'm starting to believe the bluetooth dongle is the elephant in the room, Will do a Marathon test this weekend to confirm that.

meanwhile, do you have any USB peripherals that you suspect? Especially BT dongles.

well when this happened basically the first thing i did was unplug everything, i had a bluetooth dongle but didnt use ot so when I did a clean install I did not even use it, I suspected that my UPS power supply usb was the problem as I was getting some indications in the console log. but I removed it and it still happened, I usually use a usb rf for a remote control, but that also has been unplugged since upgrading to mountain lion. Only peripheal I have plugged in right now is the white usb wired keyboard, and than a mouse plugged into the usb port on the keyboard, this morning I did my usual routine, (restart the computer, cause it froze over night) but this time I unplugged the keyboard. So there are no usb plugged in right now. which at the moment is not a problem, but i plan on actually using the computer as a media center again soon instead of just the media center server. So I am not sure what to do.

We will see if it still freezes with no usb plugged in and will update, if it does, I probably will just do a clean install.

 

[penskyc]

If it's happening like clockwork every 2 hours, maybe it's a sleep issue - try disabling sleep and see if it happens again.

definitely not happening like clock work, sometimes it will last 4 hours sometimes 2 sometimes 6, since it is a server, I have always had to set to never go to sleep, so thats not the issue :/ Since I unplugged the keyboard this morning I have yet to have any problems, the real test will be tonight, if i wake up and it is still good, it means it has something to do with the usb ports..