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Title: Need help fixing my computer freezing Post by: KGB on March 05, 2006, 01:01:10 pm Hey guys,
Last few days I have been having trouble with my computer freezing up. There is nothing specific I'm doing when it freezes. It can happen in Safari, iTunes, Finder etc etc. I really don't know what triggers it. When it freezes it doesn't give me the "spinning beachball", it just freezes up. I can still move the cursor, but I can't click anything. The only thing I can do is command+option+esc and then restart the finder. That solves it for a while. I have tried repairing permissions, used Onyx and Techtool pro, no results there. Did a hardware test, but there were no problems found. I'm figuring it's probably a software problem. I already made a back up of my users, as a last resort I will do a full reinstall. But if any of you might have any suggestions without having to do the reinstall, I would be very happy. specs 2 GHz powerPC G5 (2x) Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2.5 GB DDR SDRAM Thanks in advance Title: Re: Need help fixing my computer freezing Post by: Ethion on March 05, 2006, 01:18:57 pm Get Discwarrior, it might help.
Title: Re: Need help fixing my computer freezing Post by: BFG on March 05, 2006, 04:34:21 pm In cases like this if i want to test a system without having to actually make any changes etc then the best thing to do is boot the computer up from a seperate HD or other clean system - run it for as long as possible and see if you get the same problems - if not then you've narrowed your problem down to your system, if the freezing continues... then i hate to say it but start looking at the hardware!
Title: Re: Need help fixing my computer freezing Post by: KGB on March 07, 2006, 01:14:52 pm Hey guys thanks for the help.
I decided to reinstall OSX Archive and Install. All is well now Move along ::applause:: Title: Re: Need help fixing my computer freezing Post by: Ethion on March 08, 2006, 09:58:24 pm you should still get discwarrior
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