cyrilmtl Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I have snow running on my dell xps 9000 (435t) i7 with chameleon rc2 time to time, i still have not find the pattern, snow pause with only the little beach ball rolling, i can click on some windows but most of them freeze and I only have the rolling beach ball that I can move on the screen with the mouse. After some time snow seems to wake up and go back to normal. expect that and the voodohda for sound it work well (still not having done some perf test). How can I fix this rolling ball stuff ? C. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191375-snow-pause-with-the-little-beach-ball/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Daniels Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 I have this problem as well. I notice it if I leave my computer for any period of time, so I think in my case it is sleep related. SnowOSX 10.6 upgraded to 10.6.1 Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5ghz G33/ICH9R 8GB DDR2 Ram 2 x 640GB SATA HD's ALC888 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191375-snow-pause-with-the-little-beach-ball/#findComment-1298392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinAiken Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I fixed my spinning beach ball woes by downloading Cocktail, turning off Spotlight, and clearing all caches! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191375-snow-pause-with-the-little-beach-ball/#findComment-1299368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldy Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I'm eye balling this too as I've had the exact issues your describing on my 900a eeepc. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3901 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191375-snow-pause-with-the-little-beach-ball/#findComment-1299462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertmannaustria Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I have snow running on my dell xps 9000 (435t) i7 with chameleon rc2time to time, i still have not find the pattern, snow pause with only the little beach ball rolling, i can click on some windows but most of them freeze and I only have the rolling beach ball that I can move on the screen with the mouse. After some time snow seems to wake up and go back to normal. expect that and the voodohda for sound it work well (still not having done some perf test). How can I fix this rolling ball stuff ? C. most of the time it is if your hdd goto sleep mode and/or irq problems on ICH10R chipset goto system preferences/engergy saver and disable "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" and reboot if it's working, you'll be a lucky man if not, repost and i'm gonna tell you how to fix your irq problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191375-snow-pause-with-the-little-beach-ball/#findComment-1299527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyvau Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 I would like to have the irq solution posted. I've had this problem before and one of the first things I did when I installed SL was to uncheck that option since that fixed my problem in Leopard. I've only experienced the problem once in SL but it was with around a two day uptime. I've been doing some gaming in Windows so I haven't really had an uptime that long since the problem. I am also curious about this because about 1/3 of the time when I try to boot leopard my computer just freezes at the grey apple screen. I booted in verbose mode and I'm pretty sure the error was waiting on root device. I have an ICH9 chipset btw. My board is an Intel DG33TL and all my drives, including my DVD drive are SATA. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191375-snow-pause-with-the-little-beach-ball/#findComment-1301965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertmannaustria Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 I would like to have the irq solution posted. I've had this problem before and one of the first things I did when I installed SL was to uncheck that option since that fixed my problem in Leopard. I've only experienced the problem once in SL but it was with around a two day uptime. I've been doing some gaming in Windows so I haven't really had an uptime that long since the problem. I am also curious about this because about 1/3 of the time when I try to boot leopard my computer just freezes at the grey apple screen. I booted in verbose mode and I'm pretty sure the error was waiting on root device. I have an ICH9 chipset btw. My board is an Intel DG33TL and all my drives, including my DVD drive are SATA. try this before doing anything to your dsdt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191375-snow-pause-with-the-little-beach-ball/#findComment-1303297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyvau Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 The HPET kext didn't work but I did find http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=192569 that worked great for me. Make sure you have an ICH9 SATA controller though Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191375-snow-pause-with-the-little-beach-ball/#findComment-1319432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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