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My mintel 1.66 CoreDuo with a gig of RAM had been chugging along with 10.4.10 for some months, slow but stable. The chugging was due to a full HD, but since I don't use it - it's for the other half and the kids - I left it.
But - love, you know. It overcomes wisdom like - if it ain't broke don't fix it!
So I cleaned up the HD and ran repair disk from the install CD (which is 10.4.7) and.... (dramatic pause) (/dramatic pause) the Colonel Panicked!
I did a new install of 10.4.7 (archive and install) and then upgraded it to dot ten, and the Colonel reappeared. I downgraded again and it was stable for about 3 weeks till my lovely son did the software update thing and - the Colonel came back (though strangely it was OK for about 4 days).
I have run the system test and the hardware test CD and they report nothing out of the ordinary. I cracked it open to clean out the dust and to make sure the Ram is seated properly - all OK.
The machine has the wife's school work on it - vital stuff. I am running Leopard on my MacBook and it is very nice, faster and oilier at the same time (a HD upgrade may be part of the faster though).
I am wondering if I should skip repairs and jump straight to another cat? (The Mac Genius here is a bit of an idiot, so that's out). Or just be happy with 10.4.7 - on a machine that works OK-ish?
But - love, you know. It overcomes wisdom like - if it ain't broke don't fix it!
So I cleaned up the HD and ran repair disk from the install CD (which is 10.4.7) and.... (dramatic pause) (/dramatic pause) the Colonel Panicked!
I did a new install of 10.4.7 (archive and install) and then upgraded it to dot ten, and the Colonel reappeared. I downgraded again and it was stable for about 3 weeks till my lovely son did the software update thing and - the Colonel came back (though strangely it was OK for about 4 days).
I have run the system test and the hardware test CD and they report nothing out of the ordinary. I cracked it open to clean out the dust and to make sure the Ram is seated properly - all OK.
The machine has the wife's school work on it - vital stuff. I am running Leopard on my MacBook and it is very nice, faster and oilier at the same time (a HD upgrade may be part of the faster though).
I am wondering if I should skip repairs and jump straight to another cat? (The Mac Genius here is a bit of an idiot, so that's out). Or just be happy with 10.4.7 - on a machine that works OK-ish?