Hay caramba!
Okay, here's the machine:
iBook 600, Combo Drive, 384 MB RAM, OS X 10.2.3.
After a crash, *ALL* Apple Apps simply refuse to function. All of them. iCal, Mail, Safari, TextEdit, etc... all choke. The applications open, no display information, the menus cease to work... Force quitting them is the only way to ditch the application.
This has happened once before, but last time it was 10.2 fresh install. Internet Explorer crashed and then on reboot, this is what we experience. Diagnostic apps and preference trashing prove to be of no use.
We actually initialized the disk and did a complete clean install of the OS hoping that would fix the problem, and it did.
It's been working fine for the longest time, but then suddenly it happens again! This time while switching to another application, the Dock spontaneously restarted and the machine froze.
We don't want to have to re-install the bloody OS again. More to the point... if we knew what was causing the problem in the first place, we could perhaps avoid it.
I'm out of my element with OS X. I've been using Macs for years (since System 6 was a new thing), but we sold the older macs to buy this one for my wife. I'm stuck using an older machine until we can afford a second new Mac.
Searching Apple's support dbase is useless (no surprise there), the local techs are stumped. The only thing they can do scratch their heads and say "Re-install" -- which is what we've done and will likely do again. Needless to say it's a huge pain in the ass and we're pretty miffed that it happened at all, let alone happening TWICE!
OS X is great while it's working, but there are some huge problems that simply are not yet addressed. Are we the only ones who have experienced this..?
Any takers, we're at the end of our ropes.
Thanks in advance,
joshua
Okay, here's the machine:
iBook 600, Combo Drive, 384 MB RAM, OS X 10.2.3.
After a crash, *ALL* Apple Apps simply refuse to function. All of them. iCal, Mail, Safari, TextEdit, etc... all choke. The applications open, no display information, the menus cease to work... Force quitting them is the only way to ditch the application.
This has happened once before, but last time it was 10.2 fresh install. Internet Explorer crashed and then on reboot, this is what we experience. Diagnostic apps and preference trashing prove to be of no use.
We actually initialized the disk and did a complete clean install of the OS hoping that would fix the problem, and it did.
It's been working fine for the longest time, but then suddenly it happens again! This time while switching to another application, the Dock spontaneously restarted and the machine froze.
We don't want to have to re-install the bloody OS again. More to the point... if we knew what was causing the problem in the first place, we could perhaps avoid it.
I'm out of my element with OS X. I've been using Macs for years (since System 6 was a new thing), but we sold the older macs to buy this one for my wife. I'm stuck using an older machine until we can afford a second new Mac.
Searching Apple's support dbase is useless (no surprise there), the local techs are stumped. The only thing they can do scratch their heads and say "Re-install" -- which is what we've done and will likely do again. Needless to say it's a huge pain in the ass and we're pretty miffed that it happened at all, let alone happening TWICE!
OS X is great while it's working, but there are some huge problems that simply are not yet addressed. Are we the only ones who have experienced this..?
Any takers, we're at the end of our ropes.
Thanks in advance,
joshua