adaminc Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) I installed JaS 10.4.8 Intel/AMD SSE2/SSE3 on my laptop a few days ago, I have everything working but from time to time OSX will randomly freeze/lockup and I have to power down, which sucks (especially in the last few minutes of an ebay auction). I'm not quite sure what would be causing it, I think it might be something to do with maybe screensaver (although I have it set to never come on) or maybe some sort of automatic sleep function, because it only seems to happen when I leave the laptop alone, I also thought it could be a heating issue, but it doesnt get hot until after it locks up (I left it on one night and when I woke up the morning it was SUPER hot) i.e. it locked up only a few minutes ago, I had gone into eBay with firefox (only firefox and fire im were open) and I was sitting on the my eBay page with all my watch items, and had set firefox to automatically refresh every 10min, and set about watching tv. I looked at the laptop screen and it had said 6:03am, then went back to watching tv, when I looked back at it about 10-11min later, it still said 6:03am which made me get up and check it, and it had locked up so I had to power down and power up again. Its a very annoying problem. Does anyone have any ideas why this would be happening? my laptop specs are as follows HP NW8000 Mobile Workstation Intel Pentium M 735 1.73GHz 512MB DDR 333MHz PC2700 (just bought another 1gb, waiting for it to arrive) 40GB HDD DVD/CDRW ATI FireGL T2 128MB (QE and CI supported) HP WLAN500 ABG (Atheros) HP Bluetooth USB2, Firewire One thing I noticed while going through System Profiler is it says that the memory speed is 100MHz, is that right? doesnt seem right to me. If you would need any other information to help diagnose this problem, I can try and provide it. Edit: I also want to note that when the screensaver was active, the laptop would still lockup, i never had this problem with 10.4.6 Edited January 13, 2007 by adaminc Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38525-random-freezelockup/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
realfolkblues Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 tyr turning off sleep, my computer did the same thing when sleep was enabled. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38525-random-freezelockup/#findComment-274952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adaminc Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 lol, thanks, i had set sleep to never for the battery option, but I forgot to do it for power adapter option, hopefully this fixes it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38525-random-freezelockup/#findComment-274962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adaminc Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 yeah, that was it, thanks again realfolkblues Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38525-random-freezelockup/#findComment-275022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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