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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Tiger Weirdness - Freeze, Sluggish Performance, Etc

igelje - Aug 2, 2005 - 8:32 pm

hi - first off, i really appreciate your help, so thanks.

my 700 mhz g3 processor 14" ibook does not seem to be liking the tiger...

i hear... something (the processor?)... running really loudly nearly every day. while this is happening i can't do anything.

also - the last two days my computer has frozen twice. the apps i have open when this happens are: firefox, ichat and entourage. i'm pretty sure i'm actually in firefox when it happens.

it's not a non-responsive thing - everything just freezes. i can move the cursor around but it doesn't do anything. i do the 'fn/control + power' restart and things seem fine.

but i'm concerned that this keeps happening and wonder what could be going on.

thanks again,
j.

philippe99 - Aug 4, 2005 - 2:26 pm

J.
Welcome on macosx.com

Could you try to repair permissions
(must be admin)
Launch Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility
On the left pane, select the drive
On the right, select the First Aid (or SOS) tab
Then click on repair permissions and let run; don not worry about messages like " new permissions...."
Quit DiskUtility
Shutdown and reboot

Could you also downloadOnyx
http://macapple.free.fr/titanium/english.html
This a good freeware for maintenance on the Mac; run the maintenance scripts and delete the caches

Regards
Philippe

igelje - Aug 4, 2005 - 4:05 pm

thanks! i've already done the permissions stuff... will see how onyx works. i appreciate your help.