boogi

This is kind of a weird problem, but I recently moved to a new apartment, and ever since, my system will consistently get the beach ball of death after a while. It used to be totally stable and would rarely ever crash.

I first noticed it when the system was idle for a while (e.g., the monitors have been put to sleep after about 20 minutes of inactivity), but I've since noticed it happening simply when I launch an app or load a new website, etc. It could be completely unrelated to the move (and in fact, the first night the system was running fine, but ever since Day 2, it's been acting up) but I didn't make any software changes in the past day and I've since done a clean install of the OS and the problems still linger, so I don't know if it's completely software either.

At first I thought maybe my system was overheating due to overclocking (I have an Intel i5 2500K that was overclocked from 3.3ghz to 4.0ghz) but I switched it back to 3.3ghz and the problem still occurs.

There's usually something that's user-driven that triggers the crash -- e.g., I open a new tab in my browser or I open a new app. I haven't seen it just freeze while the system was on and idle (at least not yet).

Also, when the beach ball pops up, my system is still somewhat responsive -- I can move my mouse around and sometimes even switch windows, but I can't actually do anything like close tabs, close apps, open a new Finder window, open Activity Monitor, etc.

I'm running 10.8.3 vanilla kernel using Chimera 2.0.1. I'd really like some help troubleshooting what could be the problem (since a clean install didn't even work). Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

I have a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 and used to have a perfectly working Hackintosh build running Mountain Lion, but lately I've noticed that my App Store won't login ("An unknown error has occurred"). I've been searching around, and the most common solution is to have a working Ethernet kext and then remove all network devices, delete the Network preference file, reboot, then re-add my network components starting with Ethernet and then Wi-fi (I use Wi-fi for my internet connection).

The only problem is that my ethernet doesn't seem to be detected. I don't think anything changed, and I was able to access the App Store fine a few weeks ago. Ever since I noticed, I've been trying everything just to get App Store access, but haven't had any success yet.

I tried both Lnx2Mac's Realtek driver as well as AppleRTL8169Ethernet.kext from #####, but neither seem to get the Ethernet detected. I also have EthernetBuiltIn in my boot.plist file as well. When I go to my network devices, I don't see any Ethernet option and my System Profile says that no ethernet is detected.

Does anyone know what kext I can use to get ethernet working on my system? Thanks!

I'm following this tutorial: http://thetecherra.c...rt-to-finish-2/

I'm using an 8gb USB stick that I restored using the Base System image and I copied all the Packages files over as well, but when I try to install Chameleon (selecting the USB drive as the destination, of course) I never see the boot file appear in the USB root. When I try to boot using the USB drive, it says "DISK BOOT FAILURE" so I'm guessing Chameleon is not installing properly. I've gone through the entire process several times and even tried with an external USB hard drive as well. No dice. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why Chameleon won't install properly onto the drive?

I've tried installing Chameleon on a clean (freshly erased) USB drive and it seems to work fine (i.e. I see the boot file appear), but it appears once I restore it using the Mountain Lion GM image, it won't install anymore.

FYI: I used a similar install method for Lion and everything worked fine, so I'm relatively familiar with the process. Thanks in advance!