[OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

[Scott Rossi]

You mean my 20 volume set of Encyclopedia Brittanicas shouldn't be piled on top of the Mini for safe keeping?

( Thanks, might try to see if anything happens if the system is cooled down, but no printed volumes are currently being warehoused on the device. )

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design

On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:

> 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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