osx crashed.. wierd prob

[drunknbass]

ok i had a computer crash (i think) one night after i left work..

 

now when i boot and get into osx after it boots up the os runs supppper slow.

 

one file i know was open in illustrator is damaged and on the desktop i think might be the cause of the troubles. if i click the file on the desktop it dissapeers. i have to kill finder and relaunch it for the icon to show up. and as soon as i click it it will disapeer again.

 

if i look at it in finder all the info for that file like size etc is ----

 

i tried to use terminal to delete the file but it says file not found.. so i need to figure out how to get this thing gone to see if the system starts to run correctly again..

 

also when i use disk utility and do a repair disk it says

 Verifying volume “MAC OS X”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid number of allocation blocks
The volume  needs to be repaired.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit


1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair

 

i found a post somewhere on how to fix this from single user mode but dont remeber how now, but either case the prob came back ... id like to not have to re format and start over.

[drunknbass]

ok the wierd thing is. if i pull this hd and put it in another osx 86 system and run verify disk it says there is no problem.

i also had a fresh build on a hd that never even had registration info entered in. i plugged it in (the bad system) and did a verify disk on that and it has the same error. so would a hardware issue cause this error to pop up?

 

when the prob first came up i tried everything and finally by removing 1 stick of memory i got the system to boot into osx (it was getting a circle with a line through it on boot)

 

so im 99.9% sure this stick or ram is bad, that leaves me with 3. ive tried booting with 1 stick, 2, and 3, and tried all the different slots to see if maybe 1 slot was damaged. but anyway i try it the system runs super slow and i cant narrow it down