smashley1985
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Hi all,
Just wondering if I can get some help/suggestions please. I'm using a MacBook Pro which was bought in 2007 and running the old OS X (i.e. the one before Leopard just because I've been lazy and haven't upgraded...).
My MacBook Pro has recently (as in the last few days) started freezing up. I'll be using it normally and all of a sudden it will just freeze and these strange shaded vertical bars appear across the screen. I then hold down the power button and reset it only to get a screen saying, "You need to restart your computer...etc etc."
I then restart the system and normally get this screen again a few times (infuriating) or I boot it in safe mode holding down the 'shift' key. I've run 'verify disk' as well as 'repair disk permissions'. I've also got a mate to check it and load it into Mac's version of 'DOS' and rebook it from there. He said he doesn't understand why I'm having any problems. I've got a heap of disk space so it should be that. It was working fine all yesterday, and just again today has thrown in the towel on me again.
Basically, does anyone have any idea what could be going wrong? I'm not putting it under any stress (i.e. demanding programs) and the freezing has been randomly occurring when I'm web browsing/watching YouTube or using Excel/Word.
Should I backup my music, photos and essential documents and just wipe the thing clean and start over? I don't really want to do this as will mean I have the expense of getting an external hard drive and all that...
I haven't changed anything or downloaded any programs recently that I can think would be causing these problems.
Any help/assistance/advice would be great. Tempted just to take it to someone to get it serviced but would like to try and solve it myself if I can.
Cheers,
Ash
(ps sorry if this is a bit all over the place - just frustrated and computer illiterate!)
Just wondering if I can get some help/suggestions please. I'm using a MacBook Pro which was bought in 2007 and running the old OS X (i.e. the one before Leopard just because I've been lazy and haven't upgraded...).
My MacBook Pro has recently (as in the last few days) started freezing up. I'll be using it normally and all of a sudden it will just freeze and these strange shaded vertical bars appear across the screen. I then hold down the power button and reset it only to get a screen saying, "You need to restart your computer...etc etc."
I then restart the system and normally get this screen again a few times (infuriating) or I boot it in safe mode holding down the 'shift' key. I've run 'verify disk' as well as 'repair disk permissions'. I've also got a mate to check it and load it into Mac's version of 'DOS' and rebook it from there. He said he doesn't understand why I'm having any problems. I've got a heap of disk space so it should be that. It was working fine all yesterday, and just again today has thrown in the towel on me again.
Basically, does anyone have any idea what could be going wrong? I'm not putting it under any stress (i.e. demanding programs) and the freezing has been randomly occurring when I'm web browsing/watching YouTube or using Excel/Word.
Should I backup my music, photos and essential documents and just wipe the thing clean and start over? I don't really want to do this as will mean I have the expense of getting an external hard drive and all that...
I haven't changed anything or downloaded any programs recently that I can think would be causing these problems.
Any help/assistance/advice would be great. Tempted just to take it to someone to get it serviced but would like to try and solve it myself if I can.
Cheers,
Ash
(ps sorry if this is a bit all over the place - just frustrated and computer illiterate!)
