Really glad to hear that our solution has worked for you :). It’s still working on our mid 2010 MacBook Pros running Lion so its looking good for at least temporarily sorting the mess that Apple have created!

Originally the solution was intended to be a temporary solution until Apple got its backside in gear and released and official solution but unfortunately it seems like they aren’t going to do this so I guess this will have to be in place of an ‘official’ resolution to the issue.

No problem, glad the solution worked for you and glad that we could help.

If you have any further issues, questions etc then please feel free to come back and we’ll try and help out :).

Thanks so much for uncovering this, and this solution definately should be made public, so everyone who has the problem can do it… since apple doesnt seem to care anymore.

thanks!

Glad to hear you’ve managed to stop the kernel panics. We’ll keep our fingers crossed that it stays free of issues for you. I can understand how frustrating it is to experience this problem – on one of our machines we were getting kernel panics every 5-10 minutes after reboot! :(.

Thanks for letting us know :).

Haven’t come across that way of dealing with it before. I can obviously see how it would ‘work’ as it removes the kexts causing the panic. But, as you’ve seen, that can possibly cause other issues. Using gfxCardStatus makes the nVidia drivers dormant as opposed to removing them and that’s been a stable solution for us :).

Ah right, that’s very interesting to know Tyler – thanks for clarifying – so Mountain Lion doesn’t solve the problem then. I don’t know what Apple are playing at – this problem seems fairly widespread but they just don’t appear to want to rewrite the drivers causing the problem – which is poor customer / technical service to say the least.

One of our machines came with Snow Leopard and there were no problems. However, the problems began when we updated to Lion – due to the new Apple built nVidia drivers.

Obviously, Apple are continuing to provide the same broken nVidia drivers in Mountain Lion, which is very disappointing to say the least. There is absolutely no reason why a company with the resources Apple has couldn’t have come up with a solution in over 18 months. Personally I think its completely disgraceful.

Fingers crossed that the gfxCardStatus extension to the solution works for you as well :). You’ll have to let us know – it’d be good to confirm that whether the same solution works on Mountain Lion as well – we’ve only verified it on Lion thus far :).

I should probably clarify: These problems didnt exist for me until I upgraded from snow leopard to mountain lion.

Glad that the solution worked for you so that you could at least backup your system but sorry to hear that it didn’t solve the problem completely.

Just wondering, have you seen one of the follow up articles to this one? – http://www.dpscomputing.com/blog/2012/07/09/update-os-x-bsod-superbug-gfxcardstatus-2-0/ .

We too on our office computers still experienced problems by *only* implementing this solution (albeit less frequent). However, by using gfxCardStatus – in the way described in the article that I’ve linked to above – its solved the problem for our mid-2010 MacBook Pro.

Yeah, the kexts that are causing you a problem definitely indicate that the nVidia drivers are the source. Following the instruction in the follow on article (above) will hopefully ‘solve’ the problem completely for you. However, it obviously means effectively ‘disabling’ the nVidia graphics card – but we thought this was a very small price to pay considering the regular kernel panics which rendered the machines useless.

The problem appears to be due to the fact that nVidia didn’t write the nVidia drivers provided in Macs – Apple did – and they don’t appear to have done a very good job of it!

Yeah, there’s been many stories of Apple charging, sometimes nearly a thousand dollars for hardware (usually logic board) replacements that do not have an effect on the problem in the vast majority of cases.

Even though Apple have known about this problem for around 18 months, and acknowledged it for at least the past 12 months, they don’t seem to be any closer to a solution unfortunately.

We’ve yet to test Mountain Lion to see whether new nVidia drivers or some other bug fix has been applied – but we’re not realistically expecting that it has been solved – I think there would have been more coverage on the Internet if it had. But, depending on how bad it gets – anything is worth a try I guess!

If you’ve not started using gfxCardStatus yet (http://www.dpscomputing.com/blog/2012/07/09/update-os-x-bsod-superbug-gfxcardstatus-2-0/) that’d be my next recommended step. It’s worked on all our Mac machines for over a month with no kernel panics :).

Let us know if it works for you :). Feel free to comment again if the above doesn’t work and we’ll see if we can work something out :).

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Its pretty clear that something about mountain lion doesnt agree with the nvidia graphics card. There is no point in talking to either company about it – they dont have a clue! When I was on the phone with Apple, they were going to charge me $50. Even when I linked them to this article : http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4088

I am not sure what to do at this point, I have tried just about everything.