Ask Experts Questions for FREE Help !
Ask
    DowCorp's Avatar
    DowCorp Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
    New Member
    		  
    #1

    Oct 26, 2009, 04:05 AM
    My OSX system 'hangs' occasionally
    I have a new MacBook Pro 2.53 Ghz with 4Gb memory. The laptop came with a 260Gb hard drive which I have upgraded to a 460Gb drive.
    Occasionally, the 'spinning beach ball' shows up and the system 'hangs' for a half minute or so. Then everything works fine.
    It isn't when I am using a resource intensive program, it happens when I am using iTunes, OR iPhoto, Or a word processing program. (Please note, not necessarily all of those at the same time, it can happen when a single program is running).
    Surely a MacBook Pro with 4GB of memory should handle just about anything I can throw at it?
    Is there a problem with the machine, the disk, the motherboard?
    I have run disk repair utilities and Onyx with no improvement.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Fred
    cmeeks's Avatar
    cmeeks Posts: 754, Reputation: 64
    Senior Member
    		  
    #2

    Oct 28, 2009, 11:55 AM

    Lts of these hangs can be helped by Verrifying the disk and/or permissions. To do this you will have to boot from an external mac system disk or a third party utility like Disk Warrior
    DowCorp's Avatar
    DowCorp Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
    New Member
    		  
    #3

    Oct 28, 2009, 11:59 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by cmeeks View Post
    Lts of these hangs can be helped by Verrifying the disk and/or permissions. To do this you will have to boot from an external mac system disk or a third party utility like Disk Warrior
    I have done this, unfortunately without benefit.
    Is it likely to be a software problem or a hardware thing. Could it be the upgrade to the hard drive that caused it?
    If it is software, would it be beneficial to install Snow Leopard?
    Fred
    cmeeks's Avatar
    cmeeks Posts: 754, Reputation: 64
    Senior Member
    		  
    #4

    Nov 18, 2009, 01:15 PM

    I do not see the ard drive upgrade as a probable cause.
    I think the next step would be to try and isolate the problem. What are you doing when the problem occurs? Is it the same action or dose it just hang while you are doing different task. 4GBof memory should allow you to run several applications simultaneously still keeping a good level of performance..
    If you can isolate the problem to one application reinstall the effected application if it appears on more than one app verify that ram is seaed and functioning you can run the Apple hardware test by booting while holding down the "d" key with the original system install disk in the optical drive. If the hardware test out reinstalation of the original operating system would be a good next step. I would try to solve the problem before updating to Snow Leopard.
Not your question? Ask your question View similar questions
 

Question Tools Search this Question
Search this Question:

Advanced Search

Add your answer here.


Check out some similar questions!

My system hangs [ 1 Answers ]

Hello While using program in my p.c. it will be automatically hangs my xp 2002 operating system, so what can I to get out of this problem.

System Hangs frequently [ 2 Answers ]

Hi, I bought a new system with Dual Core 2.2 GHz, Nvedia Board and Windows XP instlled two days back. But my system hang every ten to fifteen or twenty minutes frequently. Every time I need to restart then only work. Kindly suggest me how to solve my issue... Regards, Sathya

System hangs Frequently. [ 4 Answers ]

Hi, From last 3 days I am facing a strange problem. My system Hangs very frequently, Maximum I can work is only 10 min. Then it stops responding. I formatted the partition then also same problem. Even if I run my system with Live CD/DVD then also it hangs :mad:.My mother board is 865GBF,1 GB RAM,...

System hangs because of kaspersky [ 2 Answers ]

I have installed kaspersky server ver 6.0.3.837 in my server 2003 that was good until last 10 days but now I am having a problem with this one . Kaspersky scans the system and utilizes all the memeory and hangs the system up so when we try to access the server remotely we can't because there is no...

System hangs [ 2 Answers ]

The problem started yesterday when I open warcraft3.. the system hangs! I format my hdd,installed win xp pro service pack 1 thinking that will solved my problem.. but nothing happens,same problem occur when trying to play warcraft3.. I tried not to install the driver of my video card and it works!...

View more questions Search