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My Mac OS X is constantly freezing. It will work awesome for a couple days and then it reverts back to constantly freezing. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank You
Why is my Macbook freezing constantly?
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Without more information...this is like asking someone "How long is this piece of rope?"...without showing them the rope.
We need more info:
- What exact Mac model do you have?
- What OS version is it running?
- Did you install any ram into it recently (before the freezing)?
- How full is your HD (gigs used & gigs free)?
- Was any liquid spilled on it?
- Does it seem to freeze doing any particular activities?
- Can you hear the fans running loudly? If so...what is the temp of the cpu?
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We need more info:
- What exact Mac model do you have?
- What OS version is it running?
- Did you install any ram into it recently (before the freezing)?
- How full is your HD (gigs used & gigs free)?
- Was any liquid spilled on it?
- Does it seem to freeze doing any particular activities?
- Can you hear the fans running loudly? If so...what is the temp of the cpu?
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G'day and welcome to the forums.
What MacBook and what operating systemm ~ OS X too generic. How much memory? How much free space on the hard drive? Either boot from the system install disc and run Repair Disk, or for OS X.7 and later do this via the Recovery Partition. Reboot, hold down the Option and R keys until you are in Recovery, go to Utilities and proceed.
Keepn us posted?
What MacBook and what operating systemm ~ OS X too generic. How much memory? How much free space on the hard drive? Either boot from the system install disc and run Repair Disk, or for OS X.7 and later do this via the Recovery Partition. Reboot, hold down the Option and R keys until you are in Recovery, go to Utilities and proceed.
Keepn us posted?
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LOL... That makes sense. It's a MacBook 5,2...version 10.6.8...No we didn't install any RAM,IDK how to tell how to looks at the gigs used/free....nothing has spilled on it....It mainly freezes while watching/playing any videos/shows.....I don't hear any fans running loudly.Without more information...this is like asking someone "How long is this piece of rope?"...without showing them the rope.
We need more info:
- What exact Mac model do you have?
- What OS version is it running?
- Did you install any ram into it recently (before the freezing)?
- How full is you HD (gigs used & gigs free)?
- Was any liquid spilled on it?
- Does it seem to freeze doing any particular activities?
- Can you hear the fans running loudly? If so...what is the temp of the cpu?
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MacBook 10.6.8....Model MacBook 5,2.. It says 2.13 GHz is the memory and IDK how to see how much free space is on the HD, We don't have an install disk
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2.13 GHz is the processor speed - not the amount of RAM (memory) in the machine.
Open Disk Utility found in Applications / Utilites - highlight the Macintosh HD on the left - give us the Used and Free space shown at the bottom.
Open Disk Utility found in Applications / Utilites - highlight the Macintosh HD on the left - give us the Used and Free space shown at the bottom.
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Is this the correct information?
Capacity : 159.7 GB (159,697,911,808 Bytes)
Format : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Available : 123.6 GB (123,600,703,488 Bytes)
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That's hard drive space.
Go to > About This Mac. It will tell you how much memory you have there.
Go to > About This Mac. It will tell you how much memory you have there.
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That's hard drive space.
Go to > About This Mac. It will tell you how much memory you have there.
LOL..Oh my good God.. I am so completely computer illiterate! This is hopefully the correct info... Memory....2GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM.
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Suggest you increase the amount of memroy as 2GB is very inadequate nowadays. Might have been okay five years ago when the MacBook was new. It can handle 6GB and go to Crucial/OWC to check out the memory you need.
The model is 5.2.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade/DDR3
The model is 5.2.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade/DDR3
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