random crashes in photoshop, office, fw...

[phoebus]

I am getting random crashes (the application closed unexpectedly) in Photoshop CS2, some Office Applications, Fireworks MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004. Other PPC apps run fine. I am using a 2.8 SSE2 P4 with Maxxuss 0.2 and 0.3 patches. The crashes are really random, I can launch an app, do nothing for a while, then pof. Photoshop crashes almost immediately, the other apps wait a little longer.

[mehve]

I am getting random crashes (the application closed unexpectedly) in Photoshop CS2, some Office Applications, Fireworks MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004. Other PPC apps run fine. I am using a 2.8 SSE2 P4 with Maxxuss 0.2 and 0.3 patches. The crashes are really random, I can launch an app, do nothing for a while, then pof. Photoshop crashes almost immediately, the other apps wait a little longer.

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on my box, Maxxuss .2/.3 + 'better patched' oah750d = very often crashes

Maxxuss .3 + original cracked oah750d = not-so-often crashes; iTune 4.9 very slow

Maxxuss .2 + original cracked oah750d = quite stable, very few crashes, but Finder may freeze occasionally and I have to reboot the whole system (a 'relaunch' of Finder just doesn't work)

[phoebus]

on my box, Maxxuss .2/.3 + 'better patched' oah750d = very often crashes

                Maxxuss .3 + original cracked oah750d = not-so-often crashes; iTune 4.9 very slow

                Maxxuss .2 + original cracked oah750d = quite stable, very few crashes, but Finder may freeze occasionally and I have to reboot the whole system (a 'relaunch' of Finder just doesn't work)

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I've switched to a P4 with SSE3 (one of the few socket 478 Prescotts, it heats incredibly..) and I've removed the patch. BUT, the problems remained, with only a slight improvement.

 

The solution ? I had dutifully put platform=X86PC into /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist to atvoid letting kernel_task getting 100% of CPU usage. Deleting platform.. from com.apple.Boot.plist and rebooting has done the trick.

I'm finally able to launch Fireworks MX, I can apply a Photoshop filter, Firefox is rock solid! To solve the kernel_task CPU hogging (that's what usually slows down Mac OS both in VMWare and in native mode) I've used the quick and dirty trick, moving AppleTPMACPI.kext out of /System/Library/Extensions ...