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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

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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