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Macbook Pro 2010 15" I had a go at upgrading my 2010 Macbook Pro 6,2 with 16GB (8GBx2 at 1066MHz) and Mavericks. Methodology: 1 installed mavericks via usb and 8GB (4GBx2). 2 upgrade the ram to 16GB Unfortunately I’m experiencing random kernel panics sometimes at boot other times a few minutes after log in. quite unreliable… Also getting some graphics artefacts with the Intel graphics but all looks better with the nvidia. the good news is that we now are able to boot into osx Mavericks with the 16GB, before with Mountain Lion was not happening unless we boot with safe mode. My question: Are you experience any major issues. is your system running smoothly?
Kernel panics are always tough to nail down as they can be either bad memory or a HD that is flaky. With that said I can tell you we have quite a few systems running with 16 GB of RAM so I don’t see that in its self as the issue. You could have a bad module socket as well here. I would start off making sure the modules are a matched pair if they are and you got them form a good supplier then I would look deeper here. What happens when you pull one module is the system stable then? Try moving this module to the other slot any difference? Then try the other module (don’t mix them up). Once you have proven the modules are both good and the slots are not the issue. Then you need to look at the HD. First make sure you have a good backup, then setup a boot up disk, you can setup a USB thumb drive or a FireWire or USB HD. Once you have it prep’ed go into Startup disk control panel and select your external drive as the boot up disk. Then open up Apples Disk Utility from the external disk copy. First run permission repair then run disk repair and then run permission repair once again (in that order). Did you encounter any errors and did the second pass of permission repair encounter any errors? If you did you may need to delete the partition and re-do things. But before you do that yet, switch back to your internal drive and see if things are stable. If it is leave things alone. Just keep an eye on things.
Dan, could you please confirm that you are running 16GB on 15" MacBookPro6.2 (mid 2010) with i7 processor? I’ve been reading around and the way I understand due to different chipset MacBookPro6,2 is not capable to run 16GB, but rather only 8GB. Thanks.
A 2010 15" Macbook Pro 6,2 with Intel & nVidia Chipset will only support 8GB (2x4gb) in OSX - you can run 16GB (2x 8gb) in Linux or Windows - but there does not seem to be a workaround for OSX yet. Even with 1x 8gb you will find the same artifacts, random restarts and kernel panics. Here’s a popular thread on Apple forums: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/276… Its long - but basically, there are no confirmed cases of 16GB running on a 6,2 MBP 15" w/ both Intel and nVidia Graphics in OSX.
