Hey guys- I need some help!
1st of all Im a seasoned PC user- and a new Mac user, so please bear with me =)
I bought a 2nd hand iMac 350MHz recently- (fantastic condition) and also bought a copy of OSX 10.2 however my machine has become incredibly slow-- but this is expected being a UNIX based OS. (not to mention OSX has a fair amount of eye candy)
The problem is not so much the performance but the stability.
My iMac has become unstable running OSX ..?.... This is very confusing- as from most of the articles I read prior to purchasing OSX- there was a general consensus that OSX was incredibly stable. And from my own small experience with Linux- UNIX based OSs are rock solid . And even after installing 10.2.3 the problems still occur on OSX.
The 2 problems in brief detail are
1) IE and Safari both unexpectedly quit regularly- giving me no warning- they just disappear and give me the prompt The application has unexpectedly quit )
2) If I use the number keypad on the keyboard- the whole system freezes!? just one button stroke and OSX locks up. Everything bar my mouse movement ? no matter what application Im running .
Ive tried removing various newly installed apps Ive tried doing some research of this number pad freeze thing- and Ive even attempted things like trying new peripherals and even erasing the hdd, and doing a clean install of OSX 10.2 (without classic)
However- nothing! I do seems to fix these stability issues.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I am keen to hear from anyone of you Mac Masters! =) thx in advance.
/sy
1st of all Im a seasoned PC user- and a new Mac user, so please bear with me =)
I bought a 2nd hand iMac 350MHz recently- (fantastic condition) and also bought a copy of OSX 10.2 however my machine has become incredibly slow-- but this is expected being a UNIX based OS. (not to mention OSX has a fair amount of eye candy)
The problem is not so much the performance but the stability.
My iMac has become unstable running OSX ..?.... This is very confusing- as from most of the articles I read prior to purchasing OSX- there was a general consensus that OSX was incredibly stable. And from my own small experience with Linux- UNIX based OSs are rock solid . And even after installing 10.2.3 the problems still occur on OSX.
The 2 problems in brief detail are
1) IE and Safari both unexpectedly quit regularly- giving me no warning- they just disappear and give me the prompt The application has unexpectedly quit )
2) If I use the number keypad on the keyboard- the whole system freezes!? just one button stroke and OSX locks up. Everything bar my mouse movement ? no matter what application Im running .
Ive tried removing various newly installed apps Ive tried doing some research of this number pad freeze thing- and Ive even attempted things like trying new peripherals and even erasing the hdd, and doing a clean install of OSX 10.2 (without classic)
However- nothing! I do seems to fix these stability issues.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I am keen to hear from anyone of you Mac Masters! =) thx in advance.
/sy