teacher24_70
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Okay, I need to know if I'm on the verge of a major problem. This evening alone, several strange things have happened on my computer.
1) I have cable internet (through wireless airport). Thus, when I walk into the house, I should have instantaneous connection. I got home tonight, opened up my laptop, and the wireless network had disappeared. It didn't even show up under Internet Connect. I ended up having to reset my Airport Base Station.
2) Once while viewing a webpage and opening a Realplayer file, my computer basically froze on me. The only thing that was happening was a faint ghosting of the spinning circle. NOT the beachball, but the circle (made up of bars) that twirls at start-up. The one that spins on the background before the log-in window comes up. It kept spinning and the only way out was to do a hard start-up--holding down the power key for 6-8 seconds.
3) I restarted, then continued working. I worked for another hour or so and something similar to #2 above happened again. This time, the faint image of the spinning circle began (when this happens, nothing is accessible--just frozen other than spinning circle). This time, the circle only spun for 15-20 seconds or so, then the screen went blue. It stayed blue for a few seconds, then turned black. The "Darwin-Console" came up asking me to log-in. I have no clue how to do anything in the Terminal setting, nor did I even know how/why it came up, so I had to do another hard start.
Does anyone have any advice/idea of what's happening? I haven't done anything unusual recently. Downloaded a few 3rd party things, but nothing out of the ordinary. After the first crash, I did download the newest Security Update for 10.3.9, but it had already crashed once BEFORE I did this, so surely the update wasn't the problem.
Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. If you would have done something differently than I did, please advice me so that next time something like this happens, I can change my reaction.
1) I have cable internet (through wireless airport). Thus, when I walk into the house, I should have instantaneous connection. I got home tonight, opened up my laptop, and the wireless network had disappeared. It didn't even show up under Internet Connect. I ended up having to reset my Airport Base Station.
2) Once while viewing a webpage and opening a Realplayer file, my computer basically froze on me. The only thing that was happening was a faint ghosting of the spinning circle. NOT the beachball, but the circle (made up of bars) that twirls at start-up. The one that spins on the background before the log-in window comes up. It kept spinning and the only way out was to do a hard start-up--holding down the power key for 6-8 seconds.
3) I restarted, then continued working. I worked for another hour or so and something similar to #2 above happened again. This time, the faint image of the spinning circle began (when this happens, nothing is accessible--just frozen other than spinning circle). This time, the circle only spun for 15-20 seconds or so, then the screen went blue. It stayed blue for a few seconds, then turned black. The "Darwin-Console" came up asking me to log-in. I have no clue how to do anything in the Terminal setting, nor did I even know how/why it came up, so I had to do another hard start.
Does anyone have any advice/idea of what's happening? I haven't done anything unusual recently. Downloaded a few 3rd party things, but nothing out of the ordinary. After the first crash, I did download the newest Security Update for 10.3.9, but it had already crashed once BEFORE I did this, so surely the update wasn't the problem.
Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. If you would have done something differently than I did, please advice me so that next time something like this happens, I can change my reaction.
