DrBawb Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 My system will run great for hours, usually no longer than 12 hours, and then it happens... All my applications start going nuts! First, the active application will "Quit Unexpectedly", usually do to an EXC_ARITHMETIC error (divide by 0), then background applications will start dropping off like flies. Once this happens, I have about 5 minutes to save my work, or it's all toast, because then Finder hangs, and I have to force the machine off. The weird thing is: if I leave the machine idle, I get these same errors while I'm gone, but the machine will reboot itself if I don't touch anything during this process. (It reboots into Windows, to add insult to injury.) I don't understand why the Finder only hangs if I'm actively using the machine, but I digress... I'm at a complete loss here. I'm using 10.6.0 Legacy Kernel on an AMD, when I boot the machine verbosely I am warned that my CPU FSB had to be adjusted (because of a possibly outdated bootloader, or something to that effect.) Could that message have anything to do with my random lockups/reboots? (And believe me when I say: they're completely random. The machine can be doing gymastics and never skip a beat, or it can be sitting idly and decide "Enough of this Mac nonsense, I'm going back to Windows!") I must break my computers addiction to Windows! Please help! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/246035-all-applications-just-start-quitting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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