I'm about fed up with it
Why is it that every single computer we get (no matter how ****ing good it is) ends up being a lemon? I thought that OS X was supposed to rock solid and stable, never freezing or crashing. Well guess what. It just did. Completely locked up the system. Also, I installed the OS X drivers for my printer (an HP DeskJet 935C) and then tried to add/select the printer. Guess what? Everytime I try the Printer manager conveniently quits. So how the hell am I ever going to have a printer to work with this computer? Example B: Upon booting the machine up today, everything had changed. Desktop picture gone....resolution changed...looks like this computer can't remember it's settings, something my problematic G3 would do before. A lot of times I also have to force quit applications as I can't quit them any other way. Also, when trying to change the theme, I simply can't. It gives me some thing about opening it up with an application yet how am I supposed to do that? Half the time I can't even choose one when searching for it. Also some of the themes I've downloaded unzipped and then it takes me to iDVD for some reason....like its a theme for iDVD yet still nothing happens. I'm really tired of this. I don't hear anyone else with G4s and OS X complaning about their system acting up like mine does so far. Also apps like iDVD take a painfully slow time to open as well as other apps. Please tell me WHAT THE BLEEP IS WRONG WITH THIS.
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Sounds like you need to initialize and re-install software.
[edit: Did you add 3rd party ram? If so, take it out and see what happens. You've got a dual gigger, right? The time without the extra ram won't kill and it will rule out that possibility as causing your difficulties]
[ 03-04-2002: Message edited by: torifile ]</p>
back up to DVD? Won't that take forever (or a lot longer than CD)??
I should not be having these problems.
<strong>It's not me ok.
back up to DVD? Won't that take forever (or a lot longer than CD)??
I should not be having these problems.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Dude, chill out we are trying to help. You can sit there and burn 10 CDR's or you could dump everything on a DVD-R and let it burn for a half hour and be done with it.
Save some CD-Rs, Tiger. Use a DVD.
[ 03-04-2002: Message edited by: Tarbash ]</p>
<strong>I am chilled out. I don't appreciate getting the same kind of response like "Oh Macs never go wrong it's probably your fault". That's not help.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Umm, I was just kidding. That's what this
Its funny .... not to troll (too much), but I always thought one of the reasons macs were better than windows was because "You can be working instead of re-installing windows again ..."
Are you using Duality? Looks like other people have had occasional problems. <a href="http://versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13130&showRatings=&db=mac"; target="_blank">link</a>
If you're using metamorph (a beta program) things are much worse. <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11162&showRatings=&db=mac"; target="_blank">link</a>
Interface hacks are a kludge. Pure and simple. If you want a stable system, don't run them. We have about 600 Macs where I work, and the ones with interface add-ons always have problems, until we remove the add-ons that is (kaleidoscope, duality, metamorph et al).
Don't get me wrong, the stuff is cool and fun to play with. Just don't think it doesn't increase the risk of instability.
You've probably got junk software installed. Could be something else, but probably junk software. That includes the poorly QA'd HP drivers.
[ 03-05-2002: Message edited by: seb ]</p>
tonton: As beautiful as ever to me. How did you still remember?
Tiger, run Norton or a similar program to see if there is something wrong (or boot up in safemode (cmd-s) and run fsck -y).
If there is a "Finder Preferences" file in OSX, try deleting it.
[ 03-07-2002: Message edited by: Fobie ]</p>