Raiten Posted October 16, 2010 Share Posted October 16, 2010 After a full year of stellar performance on my OSx86 Snow Leopard (Stell's Build), I am now getting an intermittent spinning wheel that freezes up the system. Typically lasts 1-2 minutes. I will also sometimes hear HD access while this is occurring. It is not associated with any particular application. I checked my disk and it needed repair, so I did that, it still happens. Is this a virus, spyware, hd failing? Thanks, Matt UPDATE: Noise coming from the case during spinning wheel freeze-up has changed. It does not sound good. What are some signs of pending hd failure? Are there any test apps I can get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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protech Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Same here! But I don't think in my case it's related to a hard disk, since it's working completely fine when I use it from Windows. In random situations (but it seems when SL needs the disk), everything just stops for a minute or so, and then continues, followed by vigorous disk activity. Hasn't happened before and it worked well till a couple of weeks ago...Checked disk, permissions, nothing specific in the logs... I'm thinking of trying different SATA kexts (I'm on GA-P35-DS3P)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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