my computer was fine until this monday, but after that it has crashed about 10 times maybe 2 times a day, it's starting to get annoying, because one of the reasons i switched to a mac was because i thought mac os 10 was a lot more stable then windows, but i guess not
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1) Hardware issues are the most common cause of this. Bad RAM, for instance.
2) Have you installed any haxies, system extensions, or such?
my computer was fine until this monday, but after that it has crashed about 10 times maybe 2 times a day, it's starting to get annoying, because one of the reasons i switched to a mac was because i thought mac os 10 was a lot more stable then windows, but i guess not
What procedures do you usually use to self administrate your OS, and how often do you do them? How do you insure a good running OS?
OS X is exceedingly stable. There are two exceptions:
1) Hardware issues are the most common cause of this. Bad RAM, for instance.
2) Have you installed any haxies, system extensions, or such?
Hmm... that the same only two exceptions why Windows goes down...
Er, glad you have that (completely not like my) experience with Windows there...
Five+ years, five kernel panics, three from bad RAM before I found it, two from a horrendous Nortel VPN client kernel extension that never should have needed to have been placed in /System to begin with.
The only time I reboot is when I upgrade the OS.
Contrast that with a vanilla XP box at work that has a nasty issue of going down once a week or so, BSOD. Linux on the same box, no issues, so it's not hardware. *shrug*
Hmm... that the same only two exceptions why Windows goes down...
Yes, bad hardware and bad low level programs do usually bring any computer down, thats why they are called bad
my computer was fine until this monday, but after that it has crashed about 10 times maybe 2 times a day, it's starting to get annoying, because one of the reasons i switched to a mac was because i thought mac os 10 was a lot more stable then windows, but i guess not
Hardware, Software versions?? What you were doing at the time??
Details?? Do you want help, or are you just wasting time complaining....
Mac OS X is a lot more stable than Windows, but there's still regular "maintenance" to be done on it.
Make sure in Disk Utility to Repair Permissions on your system hard drive and see if that helps. You can also reboot while holding down command+option+p+r to reset the PRAM. Check out the sticky thread in Genius Bar for more information.
Do you ever boot into single user mode, and fsck -fy your system? Correcting your permissions from within disk utility before doing it, and after, is a good idea too.