[X4U] Re: imac and beach ball

[john mee]

Alexandre ,
Do you also migrate your tiger system over or are you running the  
pristine copy of Leopard you just installed. If this is happening in a  
user you migrated, there may be some things that aren't compatible  
with Leopard. Safari Pith Helmet was one others are from Unsanity,  
check: http://www.unsanity.com/products/compatibility
John
On May 19, 2008, at 11:57 PM, x4u- 
request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
>
> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 01:12:18 +0200
> From: alexandre <mac at kapellos.com>
> Subject: [X4U] imac and beach ball
> To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> 	<x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> hi
>
> i have a 24" intel imac ("late 2006") that has been working fine until
> last friday. that day, i took it to the local mac dealer to have the
> hard drive upgraded, from the original 250gb to a 1000gb. i decided to
> go for a samsung s-ata II spinpoint F1 with 32b cache at 7200rmp. the
> installation was done by the dealer. at another dealer, i bought a 3gb
> ram module, to bring up the total ram to 3gb, the maximum on the
> machine.
>
> with the new drive, i thought it was a good time to upgrade to
> leopard
> and since then i've re-installed leopard 3 times! on a
> regular basis, i'm getting the beach ball for about 15 to 20 seconds.
> the computer hangs (but i can still move the cursor) and then
> everything is ok again. for example, software update is downloading
> updates, i'm moving around a few windows and the whole thing just
> freezes
> very, very annoying.
>
> anyway, i did the following, and nothing has changed:
> removed the new ram,
> reinstalled leopard
> 3 times,
> repaired permissions
> booted in safe mode
> booted in single user mode and checked the drive
> ran apple hardware test
>
> so
> i'm begining to think there is a problem with the new drive.
>
> is there anything i can still do besides taking it back to the shop
> for a hard drive exchange?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> alexandre
> 17" 2.33ghz ic2d macbook pro / 2.0gb / 160gb / X.5.2
> 24" 2.33ghz ic2d imac / 2.0gb / 250gb / X.4.11
>