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Freezing, disk i/o problems iMac
I have a desktop iMac with Snow Leopard installed on it. Every few minutes, I get freezing and
"kernel disk0s2: I/O Error"
in my console. I did some research, and found that my hard drive (a WD I ...
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2010 Mac Pro beachballing/freezing
My machine is a 2010 Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 6-core intel xeon with 32 GBs of ram running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Just the other day it started to beach ball after about an hour of use. It doesn't make any ...
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Macbook Pro Randomly Freezing [closed]
Here is the console log where I believe the freeze is occurring. This freeze happens randomly with no obvious correlation with applications, websites, etc. I recently upgraded ram from 4gb to 8gb, but ...
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Snow Leopard 10.6.8 — Short freezes all the time
I have a Macbook white (2010) and I'm facing an annoying thing since I'd bought it.
I've already re-installed the system some times, but the fact is that I got short freezes for 2-3 seconds when ...
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Macbook's keyboard gets hanged
I bought a used macbook which does not have some screws of its casing. The buttons of the keyboard stop working at times. Only the power button works. When I restart, it starts to work fine. What ...
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What could cause my Mac's hard drive to occasionally stop responding?
I have a ~5 year old Mac Pro with two internal hard drives. The primary drive (a 1TB Hitachi) contains a Mountain Lion partition (10.8.2) and a Time Machine partition. The other drive contains a ...
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cxfreeze installation : error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1
Installed XCODE 4.5.1 in my Mac machine(mac osx lion 10.7 version).
Installed python 3.2.2 and pyqt4.
When i tried to install cx_Freeze 4.2.3, installation error occurred with gcc4.2 failure.
If ...
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Late 2009 27" iMac - Random freezes
Lately my iMac has been randomly freezing for no apparent reason. It is running Mountain Lion, however the problem still existed while I was Lion. This is a complete lockup - not a kernel panic.
The ...
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Hard drive freezes on MacBook Pro
The hard disk in my Mid-2009 MacBook Pro crashes intermittently.
In Activity Monitor, the disk activity flatlines and no data is written or read for a period of time, usually between 15 seconds and ...
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Mac OS X, mouse moves but mouse clicking and keyboard stroke doesn't respond?
On my Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.8., the mouse works that if I move it the cursor moves around, but clicking doesn't respond, neither does keyboard strokes respond. How do I recover from this ...
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Mac OSX Finder scrolling stops working locks up
Whenever I open a browse dialog in Mac OSX Lion my finder becomes unresponsive (locks up) and scrolling stops working. I can use the mouse arrow keys to partly move around the finder and eventually ...
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27" iMac Won't Boot / Failed HD?
today my 27" iMac i bought a year and a half ago suddenly because really sluggish.
i checked the processes to see what was causing the problem. nothing seemed to be taking up large amounts of ...
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My Mac demands I sacrifice a program to it every 10 minutes or so. What should I do?
Several times today, my Mac (10.6 Snow Leopard) has frozen up. The cursor has become fixed (movable, but the cursor does not change), the screen unresponsive (nothing highlights when I roll over it, I ...
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Parallels “Creating Snapshot” hangup
I am using Windows paralles with my mac and I began "creating snapshot" in my VM. But the process won't stop. Now if I startup the VM, I cannot quit parallels and also can't shutdown my computer ...
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Thunderbird 3.1.10 often goes unresponsive
I'm having a problem with Thunderbird and I can't for the life of me figure out what the problem is.
I'm using
OS X 10.6.7
Thunderbird 3.1.10
I have it configured to check 3 IMAP google accounts, ...
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Macbook trackpad freezes some applications
Lately I'm having some problems with the macbook trackpad. Some applications freeze when scrolling. I have noticed this problem with Chrome, Firefox and Evernote. Safari and Picasa still work well.
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Macbook Pro Kernel IO errors - Freezes, Extremely slow Boot
Having kernel IO errors in the console, extremely slow boots, and reproducible freezes.
Tech Specs:
Macbook Pro Early 2008
4 GB ram
500 GB Seagate Momentus XT HDD/SSD hybrid drive (installed late ...
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How can i quit frozen spotlight without rebooting my computer?
I opened up spotlight, typed '12*' to do some multiplication and it's been frozen for the last 20 minutes. I am looking for how to restart the program/service/whatever it technically is, but it's not ...
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Snow Leopard Hangs at Login Window
I've had an issue for the past few months, but I rarely restart so it hasn't caused too much trouble.
Basically, when I start up my Mac (iMac10,1 - 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.6.3) everything ...
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Interrupting the “Spinning Wheel of Death”?
I am running Snow Leopard. It is up to date. Every few days, I get the "Spinning Wheel of Death."
I can't do anything except hold down the power button to shut off my MacBook Pro.
I've even tried a ...
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Android SDK emulator freezes on a Mac running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
I'm having trouble running the Android SDK on both of my Macs running OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. This appears to be a 64-bit vs. 32-bit issue, as Snow Leopard now defaults to 64-bit everything, ...
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iTunes Freezes When iPhone 3GS Connected
When I connect my iPhone 3GS to my MacBook Pro, iTunes "freezes": the spinning beachball appears, and it will not respond to any mouse clicks or key presses. Activity Monitor shows iTunes as "Not ...
