totalnoob Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Has anyone else had lockups where the mouse still moves, but everything else on the desktop freezes up completely (even the clock)? I notice it happens when i have several tabs open in Chrome when i'm reading long forum threads. it's happened at least 10 times now. i've done a memory test with memtest86+ and it passed, so i don't think it's the ram. everything else in the system did work fine in Windows Vista until i upgraded (only had a single BSOD). Only thing I have really done is apply the combo update. could it be happening because of that? if anyone else has had this please tell me, so i know whether its my hardware or something OS-based. I have the Intel GMA X3100, not the Nvidia. Also currently have 2gb ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted April 5, 2012 Administrators Share Posted April 5, 2012 could be... repair your permissions with disk utility... apple updates make a mess of em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totalnoob Posted April 5, 2012 Author Share Posted April 5, 2012 could be... repair your permissions with disk utility... apple updates make a mess of em. thanks i'll try that. there aren't any negative consequences of doing this are there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted April 6, 2012 Administrators Share Posted April 6, 2012 Dear total, Repairing permission is good maintenance practice for your system Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totalnoob Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 could be... repair your permissions with disk utility... apple updates make a mess of em. Dear total, Repairing permission is good maintenance practice for your system Cheers! repairing permissions didn't help, i just had another lockup. i have had 2 different sets of RAM now, so it can't be that. i'm at a loss now. is this something to do with OS X or with the hardware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totalnoob Posted April 6, 2012 Author Share Posted April 6, 2012 is it worth running multifail to try and remedy this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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