Hello all,
This issue may very well belong to the hardware threads, but I suspect this to be a software issue.
I've got a Macbook; it's running an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16ghz, 1gb ram, and 120gb hdd. The issue is that it freezes an unusually frequently amount of time. It will run beautifully for a few hours, then for the next hour (or until I give up trying to care) it'll keep freezing to the point of requiring a manual reboot. When it freezes, it will start with the frontmost application (typically iTunes or Firefox/Safari/Camino), then any other application I try to switch to will freeze as well. This includes Finder, so I am unable to force quit most of the time. After a couple hours have passed, it'll start up again, then slowly decline into uselessness.
I don't recall this issue when I first purchased my Macbook (about 1.5 months ago). It frustrated me enough to first try an "archive and reinstall" then a complete, clean, re-install of Mac OS X (twice, actually). After the first clean reinstall, I felt that the freezing may have been due to my reinstallation of several apps (a bunch of open-source apps that I use; NeoOffice, OpenOffice, Burn, etc.). So I did the second clean reinstall but without reinstalling any new applications or importing old settings, songs, address cards, etc. All to no avail.
I thought that it may follow that trend of working for a few hours before starting to freeze because of overheating; so I tried "Fan Control". Again, to no avail.
On a side note, my hdd is partitioned. One is 15gb for WinXP SP2, and the remaining space was left for Mac OS X. Interestingly, my Windows partition works flawlessly. It hasn't frozen or crashed once yet. I wish I could say that for Mac OS X. In fact, I had tried to write this post twice in Mac OS X before getting fed up with the spinning wait cursor and booting from Windows to write this.
I have tried Disk Utility countless times. I installed the Apple Software Updates immediately after both clean installs, before doing anything else. So yes, I am running 10.4.10.
Please, please, please, any help would be so greatly appreciated. My Macbook is something of a lifeline to me; I can't be efficient in either my studies or my work without my Macbook. So when it's not working, neither am I.
Thanks!
Kevin
This issue may very well belong to the hardware threads, but I suspect this to be a software issue.
I've got a Macbook; it's running an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16ghz, 1gb ram, and 120gb hdd. The issue is that it freezes an unusually frequently amount of time. It will run beautifully for a few hours, then for the next hour (or until I give up trying to care) it'll keep freezing to the point of requiring a manual reboot. When it freezes, it will start with the frontmost application (typically iTunes or Firefox/Safari/Camino), then any other application I try to switch to will freeze as well. This includes Finder, so I am unable to force quit most of the time. After a couple hours have passed, it'll start up again, then slowly decline into uselessness.
I don't recall this issue when I first purchased my Macbook (about 1.5 months ago). It frustrated me enough to first try an "archive and reinstall" then a complete, clean, re-install of Mac OS X (twice, actually). After the first clean reinstall, I felt that the freezing may have been due to my reinstallation of several apps (a bunch of open-source apps that I use; NeoOffice, OpenOffice, Burn, etc.). So I did the second clean reinstall but without reinstalling any new applications or importing old settings, songs, address cards, etc. All to no avail.
I thought that it may follow that trend of working for a few hours before starting to freeze because of overheating; so I tried "Fan Control". Again, to no avail.
On a side note, my hdd is partitioned. One is 15gb for WinXP SP2, and the remaining space was left for Mac OS X. Interestingly, my Windows partition works flawlessly. It hasn't frozen or crashed once yet. I wish I could say that for Mac OS X. In fact, I had tried to write this post twice in Mac OS X before getting fed up with the spinning wait cursor and booting from Windows to write this.
I have tried Disk Utility countless times. I installed the Apple Software Updates immediately after both clean installs, before doing anything else. So yes, I am running 10.4.10.
Please, please, please, any help would be so greatly appreciated. My Macbook is something of a lifeline to me; I can't be efficient in either my studies or my work without my Macbook. So when it's not working, neither am I.
Thanks!
Kevin