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  • #2
    whiterebel
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,195 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    Mac OS/machines rather than Media devices here:

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=108


  • #3
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭trout


    Moved to Mac forum ... you'll get better answers here :)


  • #4
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,698 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    I presume when you say the spinning beachball is coming up, that it is coming constantly and freezing up the system. What sort of apps are you opening? How many?

    Before we consider the RAM, you should first eliminate that it is a software problem, so try some of the following:

    1) The spinning beach ball can often indicates a rogue background process or something that you've installed. So open Activity Monitor (it's in Applications/Utilities/). Click on the CPU column so that processes are ordered by highest CPU usage first. See if there's anything using an unusually high amount of CPU. You can also use Activity Monitor to see how much RAM is free as well.

    2) alternatively, create a new user account (in System Prefs > Accounts) and login in under it temporarily - play around a bit to to test if the problem recurs there. If it is a software problem this will help to narrow it down.

    You should also repair disk permissions and verify the hard disk. You can do this using Disk Utility (also in the Utilities folder). This is very important to make sure the hard disk isn't failing.

    Is all the RAM being recognised? Open "About This Mac" in the Apple menu and see how much RAM is showing up. Loose or bad RAM can cause all manner of problems, but in my experience it'll usually cause freezes or kernel panics galore.


  • #5
    power2614
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭power2614


    Thanks...


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