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I'm having trouble with spotlight crashing on me...

I have OSX installed using the Marklar-tiger-release1 disc. Since install, I have removed TMACPI.kext, installed nvidia.kext for some graphics support and the modified applei386pci.kext to make Tiger recognize my video card as AGP and not PCI. Everything has been working great, with the exception of spotlight. When I first installed OSX, it seemed to work fine. Now, anytime I put a term into the search bar, it spins for about 15 seconds and then the infamous "YOU NEED TO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER" message pops up. Anyone else had this problem or know of a possible solution? :)

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I'm having trouble with spotlight crashing on me...

I have OSX installed using the Marklar-tiger-release1 disc. Since install, I have removed TMACPI.kext, installed nvidia.kext for some graphics support and the modified applei386pci.kext to make Tiger recognize my video card as AGP and not PCI. Everything has been working great, with the exception of spotlight. When I first installed OSX, it seemed to work fine. Now, anytime I put a term into the search bar, it spins for about 15 seconds and then the infamous "YOU NEED TO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER" message pops up. Anyone else had this problem or know of a possible solution? :huh:

 

i been searching same question... i been experiencing this... thats why i dont use spotlights, i am also using Release1 disk..

 

i also experience this crash while using safari in Rosetta mode on my ss3 cpu..

  • 4 weeks later...

(sorry for my eng)

 

same problem here....but....

i made to my card recognized AGP....

osx works fine with my geforce5200(spotlight works!), but when i change with my other card - ati9600pro -(with same machine) everything work fine, but spotlight crashed after 5-10 seconds.

 

 

 

SSE2, 3GHz,1Mb RAM, P4800SE,Sound:EMI a 2/6 m(works fine),atiRadeon9600pro or geforceFX5200.

(sorry for my eng)

 

same problem here....but....

i made to my card recognized AGP....

osx works fine with my geforce5200(spotlight works!), but when i change with my other card - ati9600pro -(with same machine) everything work fine, but spotlight crashed after 5-10 seconds.

SSE2, 3GHz,1Mb RAM, P4800SE,Sound:EMI a 2/6 m(works fine),atiRadeon9600pro or geforceFX5200.

 

humm interesting, it has to do with gfx card?! I got the same problem too under my generic dvd installation, but the spotlight works in the deadmoo image i used previously.

i have generic dvd installation too.....

 

i solved the problem!

I have 3 partitions.XP,Vista,OSX

 

I've unmount winVista partition and spotligh doesnt crash anymore...

 

 

 

Wow I didn't expect that to be the problem....Who knew? But thanks for figuring it out!!!

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