[X4U] Re: imac and beach ball

[alexandre]

john

it's a clean install of leopard, without any additional software…

alexandre


On May 20, 2008, at 7:11 PM, john mee wrote:

> 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
>>
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