WTF is going on with my school lab.
In Visual Communications and Yearbook class' we have a medium sized lab of iMacs and Powermacs. G3 500-600's, G4 400-733's. Running 10.1, and Photoshop 7.
They all crash repeatedly. Several times each day. Just hard freeze. This supprised me since I though 10.1 would solve a lot of their stability problems with 9, guess not. This doesnt exactly please the PC guys, who allready complain about how much money the school could have saved if they had bough PC's.
Any ideas on what the hell is going on? I probably didnt give you enough info, but I dont have the class anymore, but I still want to try and fix this for my friends.
They all crash repeatedly. Several times each day. Just hard freeze. This supprised me since I though 10.1 would solve a lot of their stability problems with 9, guess not. This doesnt exactly please the PC guys, who allready complain about how much money the school could have saved if they had bough PC's.
Any ideas on what the hell is going on? I probably didnt give you enough info, but I dont have the class anymore, but I still want to try and fix this for my friends.
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I'd do reinstalls as BuonRotto suggested. When you do, double-check permissions on /Library and /System to make absolutely sure the casual user can't do anything in them. Also, I'd leave the root account *off* like Apple has it by default.
Of course, details would help greatly here. Is Photoshop the only major app people are using? Have they installed any "hacks" like TinkerTool, unsanity goodies, or anything else that works globally? Also, are they using any Palm software or Norton Utilities? I've heard that both of these are pretty buggy -- especially Norton.
I have personally never had problems running Photoshop 7 on 10.1 yet. I've actually been surprised with its stability. Photoshop has been rock-solid for me.
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Anyway, the most likely culprit is a bad .kext in the System folder. Are you aware of any non-Apple software asking for an admin password when installing?
Also check for bad peripherals.
<strong>It happened to one of my labs when a Apple file server crashed. All macs connected to it also crashed.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yea. My gut reaction was that it was a networking problem. But I wouldn't know how 10.1 does in that setting.