Zaxusername
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I have a macbook 2.1ghz with OSX 10.5.8 running with 4gb of 667mhz DDR2
Recently I have been getting spinning beach balls of death on a constant biases. They come when I try to open web pages such as google, youtube, espn.com... ANYTHING actually. They come when I try to open applications, they seem to come when I try to do almost anything. I cannot force quit when they come. I have tried waiting for them to go away, sometimes up to an hour and nothing happens. They have come when I try to open utilities to try to figure out what is wrong. They come in safe mode.
I freed up hard disk space, over 60 gigs of the 120 gig hard drive. NOTHING.
I have run disk permissions like someone suggested to you, and that has done nothing.
I made another account for the computer, and that still receives the same amount of beach balls.
I tried updating software. Nothing.
I reinstalled the OS, nothing.
I switched the ram out with the ram that came with the computer, and I still get the beach balls.
I ran Onyx, and it said the drives are fine.
Yesterday out of sheer desperation I reformatted the whole thing. (former PC user) At first it looked ok, but then I began to update software and it locked up. Also, now when I open web pages I get a beach ball that SOMETIMES goes away after 5 minutes. Usually it just spins and spins mocking my existence.
What else can I try? What else can I do? I live in a place that makes it VERY VERY difficult to take to a mac mechanic. (South Korea) I've got a fresh install of the OS, am running 4 gigs of ram, have 80% of the hard drive free, have nothing downloaded on it.... WTF!!!???
I don't want to have to buy a POS PC netbook. Please advise.
Recently I have been getting spinning beach balls of death on a constant biases. They come when I try to open web pages such as google, youtube, espn.com... ANYTHING actually. They come when I try to open applications, they seem to come when I try to do almost anything. I cannot force quit when they come. I have tried waiting for them to go away, sometimes up to an hour and nothing happens. They have come when I try to open utilities to try to figure out what is wrong. They come in safe mode.
I freed up hard disk space, over 60 gigs of the 120 gig hard drive. NOTHING.
I have run disk permissions like someone suggested to you, and that has done nothing.
I made another account for the computer, and that still receives the same amount of beach balls.
I tried updating software. Nothing.
I reinstalled the OS, nothing.
I switched the ram out with the ram that came with the computer, and I still get the beach balls.
I ran Onyx, and it said the drives are fine.
Yesterday out of sheer desperation I reformatted the whole thing. (former PC user) At first it looked ok, but then I began to update software and it locked up. Also, now when I open web pages I get a beach ball that SOMETIMES goes away after 5 minutes. Usually it just spins and spins mocking my existence.
What else can I try? What else can I do? I live in a place that makes it VERY VERY difficult to take to a mac mechanic. (South Korea) I've got a fresh install of the OS, am running 4 gigs of ram, have 80% of the hard drive free, have nothing downloaded on it.... WTF!!!???
I don't want to have to buy a POS PC netbook. Please advise.
