karavite
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iMac, 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM, OSX 10.6.5 installed over 10.5 six months ago
I have had intermittent crashes of Chrome, but now and experiencing more frequent application crashes with everything from Mail to TextEdit. textEdit is now very weird - when I open it opens with my last doc, but I cannot Save it or do almost anything without it crashing. I also had the computer freeze with a blank blue screen when I came back to it the other day. In addition, now my computer will not go to sleep from a user login, but when I log out I can select sleep from the user login panel and that works. All very odd and not fun.
Are there inherent issues with 10.6 and was I foolish to get it, even after it was out for a while?
Any suggestions? Please note, the days of enjoying troubleshooting or reinstalls are way behind me. So, if I should just do a complete clean install, I would rather do that then guess and experiment endlessly. I booted in safe mode, repaired permissions, all with no apparent effect. <rant>I'm a little peeved that 10 years after starting to use OS X and loving it to death, I now have the most unstable OSX computer yet. </rant>
I have had intermittent crashes of Chrome, but now and experiencing more frequent application crashes with everything from Mail to TextEdit. textEdit is now very weird - when I open it opens with my last doc, but I cannot Save it or do almost anything without it crashing. I also had the computer freeze with a blank blue screen when I came back to it the other day. In addition, now my computer will not go to sleep from a user login, but when I log out I can select sleep from the user login panel and that works. All very odd and not fun.
Are there inherent issues with 10.6 and was I foolish to get it, even after it was out for a while?
Any suggestions? Please note, the days of enjoying troubleshooting or reinstalls are way behind me. So, if I should just do a complete clean install, I would rather do that then guess and experiment endlessly. I booted in safe mode, repaired permissions, all with no apparent effect. <rant>I'm a little peeved that 10 years after starting to use OS X and loving it to death, I now have the most unstable OSX computer yet. </rant>