[OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

[stephen barncard]

Scott, I had something like this - and it turned out to be a half working
hard drive. The test said ok but there was some intermittent stuff going
on. I ended up starting with a new drive, new install, and the migration
assistant  which works pretty well these days. In your case restoring means
you have to go through the install of Leopard (!) then Snow Leopard and all
of the updates among them.

I don't have drives go down often these days so when it happens I don't
believe it at first.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> Well, if you have no solution, I'll take your sympathy.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
>
>
> On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Terry Judd <terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 13/09/2012, at 02:02 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...
> >>
> >
> > Sounds bad. In my experience Disk Utility seems incapable of
> recognising, let alone diagnosing or fixing, lots of major system level
> problems. I had 5 hard disks, a logic board and a replacement battery fail
> within 12 months on my MacBook Pro and not once did it tell me that
> anything was wrong (kernel panic, what kernel panic).
> >
> > There are probably better diagnostic tools out there but I'm not really
> in a position to recommend any of them (anyone?). I'd be leaning towards a
> reinstall but let's face it there's no guarantee that that will fix your
> problem.
> >
> > Sorry, that didn't really help at all did it?
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Terry...
> >
> >> Thanks for any suggestions.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >>
> >> Scott Rossi
> >> Creative Director
> >> Tactile Media, UX Design
> >>
> >>
> >>
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