[OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

[Dar Scott]

Temperature?

If you think maybe...  If you are powering a lot on USB and Firewire, maybe the USB devices should go on a powered hub and the firewire devices should have power plugged in.  And take the dictionary off the top of the mini.  

Dar

On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:02 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Hi List:
> 
> Apologies for posting something other than a EULA opinion, but I'm wondering
> if someone might have some experience with an OS X system that is throwing
> random beachballs all over the place (10.6.8).  Scroll a list of files in
> the Finder = beachball; launch an application = beachball; create a new
> email message = beachball.  I've used Disk Utility to repair the disk and
> permissions (nothing major appeared to be found).  I've run a test on RAM
> using MemTest, with apparently no problems found.  I've been watching
> Activity Monitor to see if there's anything sucking up processor use --
> nothing appears to be out of the ordinary (that I know of).  I'm now trying
> an app called Onyx to see if it will find anything worth addressing.
> 
> Short of reinstalling the system (days worth of labor), I'm at a loss for
> what else to try.  The one thing I found online is that the Spotlight
> indexing process can sometimes go crazy and intermittently bog down the
> processor -- Onyx supposedly allows you to disable this but I'm not certain
> this is the problem (not a regular culprit in Activity Monitor).
> 
> Not sure if this means anything but apparently I can't reset PRAM on the
> system (Intel Mac Mini).  I've tried several times with multiple keyboards,
> without success.  I believe with Lion and above maybe this is supposed to be
> unnecessary, but it's supposed to work with Snow Leopard and earlier, yes?
> 
> Anybody have any ideas for something else to look for?  I know some of you
> do more low level tinkering than I.  Restarts help for a while, but I can
> only restart the system so many times...
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
> 
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