*bang* *bang* *bang* *bang* is the sound of my head hitting my desk

[spacebug]

Okay.

So, after realizing about eight different ways that trying to get a backup at work was going to suck, I took Apple-store-genius friend J's advice and hauled the eMac down to Southdale so they could help me. From St. Paul, during rush hour, in a car with no AC. That was fun. And then I hauled it from the parking lot to the store, giving myself handsome bruises on my hipbones in the process. And then, after waiting an hour or so and seeing about a quarter inch of status bar and nothing that struck my fancy up in the "Trendz" section of the mall, I decided to go home. S4 brought it home after work was done. Yay. And then I hauled it up to work today, and I plugged it in.

I highly appreciate everyone's time and effort and everything. I really, really do.

...but it's still doing the *exact* *same* *shit* it was doing before it was wiped.

People who tell me macs are oh-so easy and maintenance-free compared to PC's can line up and kiss my bony little white butt.

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[lokey.livejournal.com]

People who tell me macs are oh-so easy and maintenance-free compared to PC's can line up and kiss my bony little white butt.


HA!

[lokey.livejournal.com]

I still remember plotting a Mac bonfire for the end of my electronic art class at the U years back. Every person in the place was up for it as we'd all at one point or another lost immense amounts of work when the damn things chose to freeze up on us for some unknown reason or another.

Sorry this one is proving so much a hassle for you though.

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yep, that's this one's problem- it's freezing up all the time. It seems to be behaving better- it will take K coming back and putting it through normal use to know for sure, I think...

[yaaren.livejournal.com]

:( frustrating. I wish I had the magic advice for you.

[burnunit.livejournal.com]

please remind me what the "shit" was again? I only recall your file transfer-to-backup problem.

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Mostly- random freezing up, sometimes as often as several times within a half hour, sometimes less. The lesser variant of this was the mouse freezing up sporadically. We ran disk warrior on it and it didn't find anything wrong, so this was the next step. I'm hoping that it's not a hardware problem, as S4 tells me with emacs you basically just have to replace them.

[omaha.livejournal.com]

it could be a less drastic hardware problem -- bad ram.

[djnoise.livejournal.com]

The behaviors you're describing are consistent with a hardware issue. The least troublesome of this kind of hardware issue is something as silly as dusty contacts between components, or malfunctioning or faulty memory (which doesn't always show up on memory tests), the more annoying can be loose contact or solder points, or contact corrosion between components.

These things are difficult to diagnose, but especially if you see the same behaviour after the system has been wiped, the next thing to consider is always hardware.

[star5.livejournal.com]

well, i never say macs are perfect and don't have problems. but in general, they have less problems. still that's not much consolationn for the people who happen to be the ones to get the ones with problems.

good luck.

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

;) I know. I'm still thinkin' about getting one, despite bitchy ranting...

[hexagonalcarbon.livejournal.com]

I haven't worked on a mac in a long time, but in general, if you've erased the harddrive and installed a clean OS and a computer suffers random lock-ups, it's a hardware problem. Most often this is caused by bad RAM, motherboard, CPU, or malfunctioning cooling system. Less often you might see a failing harddrive or bad powersupply. I assume it's beyond warranty?

[r0ckc4ndy.livejournal.com]

I hate waiting inn line but in this case it might be worth it.