Spinning wheel appears very often!

Got any networking going on over there? Mounted drives? NAS? Active/Open Directory authentication?

Do these symptoms still appear under a freshly created user account, or is it limited to your user account?
 
On a wireless network with two other Mac's. 802.11G. An external drive running through a PCIE Esata Card

No idea what Active / Open Directory authentication is..?

Not tried it on a fresh user account, don't think i would have the patience to wait for it to do it.
 
Have you tried hitting it sharply with a mallet?






What?

Seriously, dvb, do you run the maintenance scripts? Use a program like Onyx or Cocktail? There is another Yasu people recommend.

--J.D.
 
Haha, it's come very close to that actually. I swung my foot towards it but thought otherwise.

I put Onyx on it shortly after the rebuild, which was only two days ago by the way. Ran everything on that. No changes or improvements. Will have a look at that Yasu though.
 
Well I do not know if one is better than the other. Onyx tends to run everything whereas with Cocktail you can "grade" the scripts easier for "daily," "weekly," and "monthly." The point of that is if Onyx did not solve the problem I doubt the other programs will do it better.

--J.D.
 
Hi everybody! It's been a while! Well eventually I found a solution!!!I bought a brand new WD Black Scorpio 7200rpm and replaced the old one (as last solution...). And miraculously it worked. The beachball never showed up again! and the even better is that I use my old HDD as an external usb sata (using a case) WITHOUT ANY problems!!!! I think the problem was that using a disk with minor errors as an OS disk was bringing to the top the spinning wheel. Now that I use it as an external, the system doesn't have to read all the time from the disk and no more spinning wheel!
I hope this helps dvb!
 
Ah, faulty HDD could very well be the case. It's been in the system a while. Although the checks come back normal, I don't really trust it. Gives me an excuse to buy a new drive anyway. :)

Thanks for the help.

And everyone else. I love you all.
 
my system checks were ok too! Idefrag, tech tool pro deluxe, mac hardware test ALL came back ok! But eventually it was the disk! :)
 
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