[Ti] crashing around

[silvo conticello]

On 6 Jul 2005, at 18:45, John McG wrote:

>> it is few days I'm getting the spin of death every few hours and I 
>> cannot understand why.
>> After 6-8 hours of use, I start getting the beachball spinning in one 
>> application, then as soon as I switch to another application the 
>> spinning starts also there, and so on untill the entire AlBook is a 
>> spinning beachball. At that point the only solution seemed to push 
>> the power button and force the shut down.
>> One of the symptoms that I hear in conjunction with this is a 
>> recursive noise in the left speaker (it might well be not connected 
>> to the speaker - I thought it might be the disk).
>> I see (menumeters) the CPU load varying, while, as soon as the 
>> symptoms start, it seems that there is no activity on the disk.
>> The last time it happened I found the computer with the screen off (I 
>> was awy for 15min) and the cooling fan working. I could not turn on 
>> the screen in any way, so I just shut the computer down.
>> At least once I succeed to restart the computer after the first 
>> application went spinning (actually if I don't switch to any other 
>> application the first beachball will disappear letting you get the 
>> shutdown dialog).
>> FSCK and Diskwarrior did not find any problem.

> Car crash sound on startup usually means bad ram.

Sorry, I wrote it badly: the noise happens when the problem starts, 
until I shut down the AlBook. The startup of the computer is fine 
(actually faster than I would have expected given the forces shutdown)
Silbo

Silvo Conticello
Albook 17" 1.5GHz/1.5Gb RAM/80Gb HD/OS10.3.9
iMac 1GHz/500Mb Ram/80Gb HD/OS10.4.1/17" display
Cambridge UK