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  • From: Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] What do you do when your Mac locks up?
  • Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:50:54 -0400

Let me clarify. The machine is not frozen. In other words, the mouse
pointer is still moving around. I just can't get any apps to respond and I
have the spinning beach ball.


On 4/12/06 10:44 AM, "Michael Czeiszperger" <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
wrote:

>
> On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Tony Spencer wrote:
>
>> I've been a Mac convert for a few weeks now and I'm a bit
>> disappointed with
>> its stability. About once a week something hangs up and I can't do
>> anything.
>
> As a Mac user since 1985, the most common cause of this is bad
> memory, usually caused by 3rd party sources, but not always.
>
> The thing to do is boot from the diagnostic part of your install disk
> and then run a full battery of hardware tests. The apple diag
> program seems to find problems where other 3rd party programs can't.
>
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