Have you re-installed the OS?

Could be hard-disk fault - not sure if MACs have an equivalent to chkdsk?

I thought MACs were immune to viruses (virii police click here) ??

First thing to try is to Repair Permissions. You need Disk Utility:

Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility

Click your hard drive at the top left
Click the "Repair Disk Permissions" button.

I would also consider deleting any virus checking software. There are no mac viruses in the wild. The antivirus will probably mess up your mac more than anything else.

Applemacster

Applemacster
Thanks I will try that now. I guess the term visus is wrong but there seems to be lots of Trojans. Are they termed the same? Don't know, but I will try what you said now. Thanks :ok: ooh it just did it again:ugh:

Get a PC.:E

How much memory do you have?

How full is your hard drive?

Had this problem with my old Mac Mini (in spite of 1GB of memory)
Repairing permissions helped, but the 60GB drive has only 10GB free and a lot of the wait is disk thrashing as it pages in and out.

I'll get a new Mini in September when Snow Leopard comes out.

:ok:

(Never been a problem with my Macbook (2gb/160GB)

Now I know it is a little premature, but by Jove sir I think you may have done it! It is suddenly much faster already. Yippeeeeeeee!:ok:

Tarq

Wash your mouth out with Draino!

We call it "caustic soda" in this part of the world, ZB.:hmm:

AppleMacster
well I was premature, I am afraid I am still getting the spinning thinks bubble thingy. Aaaaaagh! By the way Mac The Knife, out of 110 G or so hard drive, 60 are spare.

Sorry to hear that you're still having issues. Here's a checklist:

Make sure all Apple updates have been done: Apple Menu>Software Update

Remove the antivirus and anti-spyware software.

Go back to Disk Utility, select your hard drive again and try the disk repair buttons on the right-hand side.

If all that fails, it may be a logicboard failure. Under warranty, there is no charge for the repair. Out of warranty, it's around £500.

Applemacster

£500...? As the man says, get a PC! you'll get some change as well!

WP

They do cost more but I tell you "Once you gone Mac there ain't no goin back'. Didn't Linda Lovelace come out with that quote? Oh it wasn't Mac, sounds like:E

Thanks again AppleMacster I will try what you have mentioned. Just like now as I was typing, the letters stop coming up when i hit a key. The only way to start retyping again is put the cursor in another text box outside this one (i use the heading box), hit a couple of keys or hit space, cursor back in here then continue. It is driving me nuts.

Other things to try:
If you feel confident, google for & install Applejack, which allows you to run low-level tests.

Is it just Safari that locks up, or everything? If it's just Safari, have you any 3rd party addons? You could always try downloading Firefox (simply put it in your Home folder if you like - you don't have to be running in an admin account for this. See other posts I've made about not running as an Admin. If you run as a User (not admin) then there's no (realistic) way rouge software can compromise your OS without you typing the admin password. Worst it can do is consume 100% CPU, or steal or erase your data, but not bring down the whole machine. That might read as flippant, but I don't mean it to.

Does sound like it might be a hardware problem, however. Try googling for some SMART monitoring software, which will at least track you HD's state over time & might give you some clue if there's increasing degradation.

Sorry for the rushed post but I'm sitting in semi-darkness in the garden & my Macbook battery's well into the red.

OnyX
 

how about some info about your system? You've said you have a macbook pro, but what type? How old? What OS, what memory have you got? etc

I reckon it's probably down to memory shortage (Even if you are running a MBP) or maybe to software running in the backround,

hope this helps?

Shinobi

Laptop in Trouble?
 

I own a 4 yrs old iBook G4. Am still working with 10.4.11 on that.

This evening, I saw one white line stretched across the screen, about an inch from the bottom edge. I did a restart, hoping the line would vanish -- but no such luck. :ooh:

Since then, I have realised that every time I shut the lid and reopen, some more lines keep turning up along which there is no display of any of the pictures or text or whatever in that area. As of now, there are about NINE such line across the screen, fortunately all within about a centimeter of each other. :{

So, I intend to avoid shutting the lid from now on -- just switch the laptop off instead!

I took a screenshot with Cmd-Shift-3, but the lines did NOT show. So, have now taken a picture of the screen with my mobile and this is what it is at, right now:

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...ss/Desktop.jpg

The question is: Is this the end of my laptop? Or, is there a solution for this problem?

HELP!!

Great MAC experience
 

I've never had a problem with the MAC, nor a virus.

If it isn't a memory issue (which it might be) then maybe it's just a "bad apple" from the lot. They usually are fantastic to work with once you figure out it isnt' a PC.

KB

Sounds like the cable to the display from the logic board is on the way out.

You cane either give it back to apple and let them change it or do the job yourself although it involves totally stripping down the iBook

Before you dismantle the iBook, did you try a PRAM and NVRAM reset?

PRAM/NVRAM reset

Applemacster

The elastomeric connector at the edge of the screen has separated from the screen itself. If you apply very gentle twisting pressure to the screen you'll probably (but not necessarily) see a change in the white lines. That's why you were seeing a change in the lines when you opened and closed the laptop screen.

The reason you don't see the lines on a screen grab is because the video ram is working fine and has a complete and correct copy of what the computer wants to display, so that's what's turning up on the screen grab. The fault occurs at the very last physical connection between the computer and the display.

There are two options : You can replace the screen, or use an external display. The lines will not appear on an external screen for the reasons explained above.