IvoryZebra Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 I've had Snow Leopard installed with a retail 10.6.1 DVD with Kakewalk for about 3 or 4 months. Soon after I updated to 10.6.3 and that's as far as I've gotten. Just recently though, I've started experiencing many freezing issues most notably while using browsers, (Opera, Firefox, etc) or other apps (iTunes, Skype, Starcraft 1, Thunderbird) and many times the problem has started when I'm about to watch a video from YouTube, Vimeo, etc, but still can occur while randomly browsing. Once that happens, the browser becomes completely unresponsive and must do a Force Quit. After a reopen, the browser immediately becomes unresponsive again, and it stays in this cycle until I restart, and the problem randomly arises again. Eventually this happens with pretty much every app I try to open or am using. Program freezes, I Force Quit, try to reopen and it either freezes on the Dock or it freezes right after it opens. I've tried to examine Activity Monitor when this is happening and nothing seems to appear out of the ordinary from what I can tell? RAM is usually being used no more than half, CPU usage looks quite minimal. It's very frustrating as when this happens, the whole computer is virtually unusable... Here are my specs: GA-EP35-DS3L Q6600 9800GTX+ Installation is on a WD5000AAKX HDD Also unrelated, is that I've unable to install any bootloader to independently boot without the Kakewalk CD in the drive. I've sort of left it alone because it didn't seem too inconvenient but it would definitely be nice to be able to boot without it. Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266324-constant-freezing-have-to-always-restart-please-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Run memtest on your RAM, run some utility that checks your hard drive for surface errors and make sure your PC is not overheating. Run Console.app and look through system/kernel.log for clues. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266324-constant-freezing-have-to-always-restart-please-help/#findComment-1739290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvoryZebra Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 Did a short SMART test on the installation drive and it came up with no errors, operating temps are normal... What would I be looking for in system/kernel.log? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266324-constant-freezing-have-to-always-restart-please-help/#findComment-1739294 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 What would I be looking for in system/kernel.log? That's a funny question and I could only give you a specific answer to it if I already knew what was wrong with your Hackintosh. You should be looking for anything out of the ordinary, error messages etc etc. Each entry in the logs has a timestamp. Examine the events that happen up to and around the time when your Hackintosh froze. You didn't mention memtest so I'll repeat myself because it's a very important part of troubleshooting. Follow the link below and download the memtest CD image, burn it to a CD and boot your PC with it to test your RAM. It's very easy to do and the testing itself is fully automated. http://www.memtest.org/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/266324-constant-freezing-have-to-always-restart-please-help/#findComment-1739635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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