10.6 definitely won't stop random freezing on my MacBook 13"

Hello.
I have a MacBook white I bought two years ago.
When I bought it it already came with 10.5 installed.
A couple months after I bought it I upgraded its RAM from the original 1G to 4G, as well as changed its harddrive from the original 120G to a Seagate 500G.
Nothing stopped working, in fact I thought I had (or still have, hopefully) a very nice machine.
When apple released Snow Leopard I felt tempted to upgrade after looking through the neat new features. I went to the store and bought my copy of Snow Leopard and made an upgrade of my machine.
This is when I started experiencing ****!
From the moment I upgraded to 10.6 my once steady and consistent mac started random freezing and showing me that extremely obnoxious beach ball (a.k.a. beach ball of death).
From September 2009 (when I made the upgrade) until last month (March 2010) I kept trying and digging for solutions to this issue. I tried literally everything I could find in the forums, both apple discussion forums and other mac related forums. From resetting the SMC to doing a fresh 10.6 installation (yes, from scratch).
I'm very unfortunate to say that nothing, nothing worked. The random freezing kept happening on 10.6.
This was when I decided getting back to 10.5.
I even did a full RAM test using memtest (I left it running for a whole day on single user mode) and all tests passed.
10.5 is working nicely so far, I have been testing it full load for a couple of days and no freezes so far.
Now here's my question: why in the world 10.6 won't work for me? I really want it but I can't afford having a Vista like OS in my mac.
Anybody has any clues? Any probing suggestion I might have missed?
Thanks a lot!

Well, I only got to read your reply after exchanging the hard drives.
In any case I got 10.6 freezing with the old HD as well, which is sad!
Regarding the RAM I bought, I got it from a local electronics store and it is supposed to be a kingston module. I never verified the modules in the Kingston website though.
I'll get them off and try to verify the authenticity of the modules with Kingston, and will give a try with the old memory modules.
From the top of my head I can't figure what kind of incompatibility can there be with a working module that has the exact specifications of the macbook I own. In any case, it is worth the check.

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X.Org X Server 1.6.3
Release Date: 2009-7-31
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.30-ARCH i686
Current Operating System: Linux jadelazuli 2.6.30-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 17 18:04:53 CEST 2009 i686
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drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:00:02.0
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(==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
(==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
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(II) intel(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
(II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0 28.32 720 738 846 900 400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 49.50 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0 36.00 640 696 752 832 480 481 484 509 -hsync -vsync (43.3 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0 56.25 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync (53.7 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0 94.50 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync (68.7 kHz)
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz)
(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "HWP", prod id 1259
(II) intel(0): Output VGA connected
(II) intel(0): Using user preference for initial modes
(II) intel(0): Output VGA using initial mode 1280x1024
(II) intel(0): detected 128 kB GTT.
(II) intel(0): detected 8060 kB stolen memory.
(==) intel(0): video overlay key set to 0x101fe
(==) intel(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) intel(0): Display dimensions: (320, 240) mm
(**) intel(0): DPI set to (101, 108)
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libfb.so
(II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.3, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
(II) intel(0): Comparing regs from server start up to After PreInit
(==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
[0] -1 0 0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[b]
[1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
[2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
[3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
[4] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[b](OprD)
[5] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[b](OprD)
[6] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[b](OprD)
[7] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
[8] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[b]
[9] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[b](OprU)
[10] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[b](OprU)
(II) intel(0): Kernel reported 50176 total, 1 used
(II) intel(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 200700 kB available
(II) intel(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
(**) intel(0): Framebuffer compression disabled
(**) intel(0): Tiling enabled
(**) intel(0): SwapBuffers wait enabled
(==) intel(0): VideoRam: 131072 KB
(II) intel(0): Attempting memory allocation with tiled buffers.
(II) intel(0): Tiled allocation successful.
(II) intel(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
(II) UXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
(II) solid
(II) copy
(II) composite (RENDER acceleration)
(==) intel(0): Backing store disabled
(==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) intel(0): Initializing HW Cursor
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 0 at 0x07fff000 (pgoffset 32767)
(II) intel(0): Fixed memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x007df000: end of stolen memory
(II) intel(0): 0x007df000-0x07ffefff: DRI memory manager (123008 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x07fff000-0x07ffffff: overlay registers (4 kB, 0x000000000b43b000 physical
(II) intel(0): 0x08000000: end of aperture
(II) intel(0): BO memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x007df000: start of memory manager
(II) intel(0): 0x00800000-0x00ffffff: front buffer (8192 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x01000000-0x01004fff: HW cursors (20 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x07fff000: end of memory manager
(II) intel(0): Output configuration:
(II) intel(0): Pipe A is on
(II) intel(0): Display plane A is now enabled and connected to pipe A.
(II) intel(0): Output VGA is connected to pipe A
(II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
(II) intel(0): DPMS enabled
(==) intel(0): Intel XvMC decoder disabled
(II) intel(0): Set up overlay video
(II) intel(0): direct rendering: DRI2 Enabled
(WW) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" is not used
(--) RandR disabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
(II) Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Initializing built-in extension SYNC
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
(II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control
(II) AIGLX: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap backed by buffer objects
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i915_dri.so
(II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 0
(II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 320 x 240
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.6.3, module version = 2.2.4
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: always reports core events
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Configuring as mouse
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Macintosh mouse button emulation" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) Macintosh mouse button emulation: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: initialized for relative axes.
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Logitech USB Optical Mouse
(**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: always reports core events
(**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event5"
(II) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
(II) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
(II) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Configuring as mouse
(**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Logitech USB Optical Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00
(**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms
(**) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: (accel) set acceleration profile 0
(II) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: initialized for relative axes.
(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event1"
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
(II) intel(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel
(II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch
(II) intel(0): xf86BindGARTMemory: bind key 0 at 0x07fff000 (pgoffset 32767)
(II) intel(0): Fixed memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x007df000: end of stolen memory
(II) intel(0): 0x007df000-0x07ffefff: DRI memory manager (123008 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x07fff000-0x07ffffff: overlay registers (4 kB, 0x000000000b43b000 physical
(II) intel(0): 0x08000000: end of aperture
(II) intel(0): BO memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x007df000: start of memory manager
(II) intel(0): 0x00800000-0x00ffffff: front buffer (8192 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x01000000-0x01004fff: HW cursors (20 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x07fff000: end of memory manager
(II) intel(0): Output configuration:
(II) intel(0): Pipe A is on
(II) intel(0): Display plane A is now enabled and connected to pipe A.
(II) intel(0): Output VGA is connected to pipe A
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Logitech USB Optical Mouse: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
I use Xorg version 1.6.3, as shown in the log, Intel driver version 2.7.99.902-1, and kernel version 2.6.30-ARCH.
"Do you know this exactly or just a guessing ?"
A lot of people were talking about how a version of the Intel driver was released to stop the freezing, so I assume Arch Linux would have this version by now.
I have yet to install SSH to remote-login, so I haven't tried killing it, except with Magic SysRq.
The last time Xorg froze, I had just used the command "mmaker -vf Fluxbox" while Fluxbox was running, which made it freeze soon afterwards, so I now think it might be Menu Maker that somehow makes Fluxbox unstable. I was installing a lot of programs for my new installation, and ran it almost every time after I started X to add them to Fluxbox's menu.
Last edited by Mugendai (2009-08-22 19:55:38)

WSJ App Random Freezes

Recently the WSJ app in Newsstand will randomly freeze. The only fix is to close then reopen app. It happens at least once per reading session (day). Anyone else experience this w/ iOS7.1 + iPad Air w/ the latest update from last month?

Hello, Harry.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I would recommend going through the steps in the second article below when experiencing this issue.
iOS: Using Newsstand
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4943
iOS: An app you installed unexpectedly quits, stops responding, or won’t open
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1702
If none of the steps resolve the issue I would recommend reaching out to the developer.
Contact the developer
If you see the issue again, contact the developer of the app for help:
Find the app in the App Store.
Tap the app and tap Reviews.
Tap App Support.
Cheers,
Jason H.

Lumia 620 randomly freezes and reboots

I knew a cheap windows phone is too good to be true. I've been getting random freezes and reboots without any reason at all. This is unacceptable, nokia should address this windows 8 issue afflicting wp 8 phones. Please don't tell be to do a soft or hard reset because we already know it won't fix the problem.

Hi, everyone. I've been having problems with random reboots ever since I bought my Lumia 620 and it was driving me crazy. It freezes up sporadically too, but I think I found a fix for rebooting issues.
When my cousin bought her Lumia 620 I immediately asked her if hers rebooted sporadically as well. She said it hadn't, not once. Then, one time her battery was dying so I gave her mine, and she left me with her battery and on charger while she went home. Anyway, hers started to reboot frequently, whilst mine was behaving ok.
When we replaced the batteries again, mine began rebooting again.
Finally, I checked both our batteries and found out mine was moving around the device more freely than hers. Hers was held firmly in place while mine danced around. Then I tried moderate, yet gentle tap on the side of my device and it rebooted EVERY TIME I tapped it. After I inserted a small, neatly folded piece of paper between the device and the battery, the battery clicked in place tightly and it couldn't move at all. Reboots stopped, no matter how strong I tapped the sides of the device.
This hasn't resolved any freezes, but at least it's not rebooting all the time. So check your battery, maybe it is a hairline thinner or smaller or whatnot from the rest of them and it can move around. A millisecond is enough for it to lose contact, half a millimeter of movement is enough to cause your phone to reboot. Hope this revelation of mine will help someone

Macbook Air 2011 11" - random freezes. Roaming wifi causing it?

I have MacBook Air 11" Mid-2011 (4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, i5). Ever since getting the machine I've experienced random freezes - spinning beachball, screen becomes unresponsive, holding the power button to force it to close being the only thing I can do. The console logs don't show anything that indicates a problem. They just stop logging anything until I restart. I took it to an Apple store Genius while still under warranty and they kept it in for a few days and ran a suite of tests and found nothing.
The problem was completely random and unreproducable. Sometimes it would happen a few times in a row, then nothing for weeks. Also, it was only happening when I was staying in a particular hotel during the week for work. It was Hilton hotel with the wifi being provided by BT Openzone. It would only happen there, never at home, family members house, Starbucks (which also use BT Openzone here in the UK, airports).
I recently made some changes to my home wifi setup and the problem has reappeared, but this time at home. Where previously I just had an Airport Extreme, I have now extended the network over ethernet powerline to a second wifi access point. The second wifi access point has the same SSID as the main network.
All my wireless devices should seamlessly switch between access points as I move them around the house. Our iPhones, iPads and Dell laptop seem to have no problem doing this. When I move away from one access point, once the signal strength drops to certain point, the device connects to the second access point. The MacBook Air also does this, but it seems to freeze if I am in an area where the signals are overlapping. This also describes the situation in the hotel. The BT Openzone hotspots were spread across the hotel. If my room was in an area where the signals from access points were overlapping I would be more likely to experience the freeze.
If I look in the Wifi logs I can see messages stating that some sort of threshold has been reached and the wifi is starting roaming. These messages are always present at the time of the freezes.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is it something Apple would fix eventhough I'm now out of warranty? If it could be a hardware problem, would replacing the wifi card myself help?
cheers.

I have MacBook Air 11" Mid-2011 (4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, i5). Ever since getting the machine I've experienced random freezes - spinning beachball, screen becomes unresponsive, holding the power button to force it to close being the only thing I can do. The console logs don't show anything that indicates a problem. They just stop logging anything until I restart. I took it to an Apple store Genius while still under warranty and they kept it in for a few days and ran a suite of tests and found nothing.
The problem was completely random and unreproducable. Sometimes it would happen a few times in a row, then nothing for weeks. Also, it was only happening when I was staying in a particular hotel during the week for work. It was Hilton hotel with the wifi being provided by BT Openzone. It would only happen there, never at home, family members house, Starbucks (which also use BT Openzone here in the UK, airports).
I recently made some changes to my home wifi setup and the problem has reappeared, but this time at home. Where previously I just had an Airport Extreme, I have now extended the network over ethernet powerline to a second wifi access point. The second wifi access point has the same SSID as the main network.
All my wireless devices should seamlessly switch between access points as I move them around the house. Our iPhones, iPads and Dell laptop seem to have no problem doing this. When I move away from one access point, once the signal strength drops to certain point, the device connects to the second access point. The MacBook Air also does this, but it seems to freeze if I am in an area where the signals are overlapping. This also describes the situation in the hotel. The BT Openzone hotspots were spread across the hotel. If my room was in an area where the signals from access points were overlapping I would be more likely to experience the freeze.
If I look in the Wifi logs I can see messages stating that some sort of threshold has been reached and the wifi is starting roaming. These messages are always present at the time of the freezes.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is it something Apple would fix eventhough I'm now out of warranty? If it could be a hardware problem, would replacing the wifi card myself help?
cheers.

Text won't stop deleting, delete key appears to get "stuck"

Sorry if this is in the wrong topic, I have never used the support forums for any of the multitude of problems I have had with my Mac, but this one is severe and odd enough that I couldn't even find anyone else discussing it (although I'm sure someone is, but I tried many search key combinations on Google and only found unrelated things), so I decided to at least get it documented.
I have had an issue that has happened at least 3 times I can remember (I am fairly certain it has happened more, closer to 7-8, those are just the times I am 100% confident about), although very spaced apart and infrequent, where my delete/backspace key seems to get "stuck". However, at least one time I can verify that I never even hit the key. Whatever text I currently have open immediately starts deleting at lightspeed, and I can do nothing to stop it. None of the other keys on my keyboard work, and though my mouse works, if I click somewhere else, it starts deleting the text there. When I force it to go to another window where there isn't an open text box, I get the general Mac error sound, and it repeats non-stop, and faster than I've ever heard it. I have to do a hard shut-down, although once it led to a kernal panic. When I have stopped whatever is happening before it panics though, when I restart, I don't receive any kind of error message, nor the message about OS X not having been shut down properly.
Every single time it has happened when I was typing something that couldn't be saved, like a message on a forum, a private message on a site or an IM chat window. Sometimes I lost a half hour's worth of work or more.
The first time it happened, I honestly thought someone had managed to hack into my computer, but another time I was using a physical modem and Airport was turned off, and when I ripped out the cord, it didn't stop.
I have a MacBook Pro from 2007, running the most recent version of Tiger. I haven't had the money to upgrade. All security updates are up-to-date, with one exception: I have not upgraded to the most recent version of iTunes.
Honestly, I currently am having and have been having a bunch of other severe issues with my Mac, so troubleshooting will be quite difficult as it's not at all impossible it's a result of one of my other problems. I also currently am dealing with some health problems that make me unable to try to find the root of the problem, specifically I have a problem with my hand and wrist that makes typing very difficult.
If someone does recognize this issue and already knows why it might be happening, I'd appreciate the help. I'd also appreciate anyone letting me know how I can prevent it OR what to do when it begins and how to stop it. But I probably will be unable to go through a typical troubleshooting rundown.
As I said, I just wanted this documented, and I also would like to know if anyone else has had this problem. I have never experienced an issue like this with any of my past computers, including Macs and PCs. I do know however that the key is NOT physically getting stuck - as in getting lodged down and continuing to be pressed. There is at least 1 time I can verify I never even hit the key (I wasn't typing anything at the time). I am fairly sure the problem is entirely unrelated to the actual delete key itself.
I'll describe the symptoms one more time:
At a random time, with no discernible warning, text contained in whatever text box I have open begins deleting itself. Several paragraphs disappear in a matter of seconds.
Pressing escape or any other key on the keyboard does nothing. If I click to another area in the text, it will immediately begin deleting wherever I have placed the cursor. If I go to another window with text that can be edited, it begins deleting there. It does not delete in more than one place simultaneously.
If I bring another window without any kind of "deletable" text to the front, one of the general Mac error sounds (I'm not sure which one it is) starts happening and repeats without stopping at a rate that could induce a seizure. To stop it all, the only thing I have found can be done is a hard shut-down. Another time it continued to end in a kernal panic. I wish I had the details of the error, but it was so long ago and I have no idea which panic is the right one in the logs.
I have no way of knowing what programs were running at the time, as obviously that's not something I'm able to pay attention to when it happens, and it has happened so randomly and infrequently it's nothing I've been able to document. Since I have to restart to make it stop, I've then lost that info and I have no time to try to write it down or something beforehand.
I have not had any similar issues that I know of (for instance, for the "g" key keeps repeating and won't stop typing "g's") and I've never experienced this on any past computer.
Thanks for anyone who can help!
If you aren't able to offer advice but have had this issue yourself, PLEASE let me know. I can't seem to find anyone who has experienced this particular problem.

"Cleaning the keyboard is the first step in troubleshooting sticky/stuck keys."
Okay, I guess I misunderstood, although I am still confused. You're saying that since the other user did an extensive clean of their keyboard and this did not solve the problem, it is "most likely" a hardware problem, correct? Wouldn't a thorough cleaning without any results show that it's probably not physically related to the keyboard?
"The "delete" key may be defective or the cover you are using somehow is making the key stick. If you have ruled out the latter and everything else, your only other alternative is to take the MBP to your local Apple Store or AASP. The staff will check out your keyboard (free) to confirm if you are having a hardware problem. If you have AppleCare or ProCare, the repairs will be free. If not.................."
Well, I had just said in my most recent post that it has now happened with other keys, and in my initial post that it happened at times when my hands were nowhere near the keyboard. It is not a defective delete key and the cover is not making the keys stick - it doesn't adhere to them and does not have any sticky substance on it of any kind. I am an experienced computer user, and I know my computer very well. While I am not a psychic that can always know what is causing a problem, I am able to discern with much accuracy what is NOT causing it.
Also, I have significant health issues so getting to an Apple store would be a huge challenge for me. And although I have AppleCare any repairs won't be free. Due to some small physical damage my laptop obtained a few years ago, I have been completely refused almost all service that I paid over $300 for, even though the damage is completely superficial. After fighting this, I was told they WOULD repair my computer, however, they would also repair the physical damage despite my insisting NOT to; I had no choice in the matter and the cost would be a minimum of $1,500 (I also would not be informed the exact price until after and my credit card would be charged without my knowledge - I had to give them my credit card number and sign away their right to make any charges and when I requested being contacted before they charged me for the repairs I didn't want done, I was told they did not do that). My family is struggling to pay for my $5 medications.
When my logic board died (that same issue that affected thousands of computer users), I had to print out Apple's report from their site, which stated that they would replace and repair them free of charge to ANY Mac owner with a computer that met certain qualifications (which mine did). When it happened, completely out of nowhere, I knew immediately that was the problem, yet still had to go through the insulting and idiotic "Is your computer plugged in?" list of things and a customer WITH AppleCare was being refused a service they'd offered to people WITHOUT AppleCare, for a known manufacturing defect that has occurred widely in nearly every brand of computer made.

KT6 Delta - Random freezes and LAN Issues

Just built a new PC, installed Win XP, installed all the drivers etc.
I get random freezes - as in the machine will just stop responding totally. I could run for an hour before a freeze, other times its frozen before I've even logged in.
Also the LAN keeps dropping out too. The timing of this is also random, just to make things interesting. I could be downloading a 20MB file, get only 2MB into it, then it just sits there. The only way to get the LAN back up and running is to reboot. Once I've rebooted, its a case of just waiting for it to fail again
The specs are as follows:
KT6 Delta-FIS2R (Gigabit LAN etc.)
AMD 2800XP+
1GB Crucial (2 x 512)
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
80 Maxtor HD
400W PSU
I've got the FSB set to 166 and also set the memory up correctly (333 and 2.5 cl) but to no avail.
I was running with a Soundblaster Audigy card, but took that out and still got the same. I even tried taking out one of the memory modules.
I don't think its a temperature issue as the CPU is currently running at about 47 Degrees and I've got the side off-of the case.
Please - anyone got any ideas???

I have a KT6 Delta LSR and am having probs with the onboard Broadcom 4401 as well.
After Initial boot of machine I have 2-5 minutes to surf the net or whatever. At that time I lose connection. Also if I linger on one page long enough to read, I lose connection. Or shutdown a net connected program, it loses connection.
When I play Tribes - the connection stays till I leave the server - then I have to reboot.
This is driving me nuts. I have disabled the Lan in bios and installed a Netgear 10/100. XP recognizes it but cannot get rid of "Cable not plugged in" message. So I reinstalled the 4401.
I have RR and am behind a Phoebe 4 port router. None of the other computers have a problem with the router, and I have tried changing plug in ports around among the computers.
I have the same version of driver for it as the latest at MSI. Flashed the latest bios lately as well, in desperation.
Any ideas? I sure would appreciate it.
Oso
KT6 Delta-LSR
XP SP1
Gig of DDR
400w power supply

Random freezes with kernel 2.6.34 and xorg 1.8

The other day I upgraded the kernel to version 2.6.34 and at the same time xorg-server to 1.8 (along with input drivers and video drivers). From that moment, I suffer from random freezes, the system is completely locked up; the screen doesn't blank, though. The system appears to be perfectly fine, but after some minutes it will freeze.
As far as I can remember, the freezes only occur when using a webbrowser. Chromium is my default browser, but also Firefox and Konqueror caused the system to freeze completely when I want to open a webpage. Other network programs such as irssi can run for hours and they didn't seem to cause any havoc.
At first I thought this might be caused by some instability in the latest xf86-video-ati driver, so I downgraded back to xorg-server 1.7. Still the same symptoms, so I am pretty sure now there's something in the kernel. So I went back to xorg-server 1.8 and downgraded the kernel to 2.6.33. So far, the system hasn't let me down, yet. Also, I uninstalled the madwifi packages on my system so I'm using the ath5 drivers shipped with the kernel. That change doesn't seem to make a difference.
I am not exactly sure what exactly could cause this, there's no trace in any log file to be found. My suspicion is that it's network related.
The hardware is a Thinkpad T42 with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (r300) chip and an Atheros wireless card.
Anyone else with similar experiences with this hardware? I can't think of a way how to properly debug this. I know I can bisect, but that's time consuming and perhaps it's quicker to ask around first before I walk down that road. Any suggestions are welcome on how to track this down.

The last time I used arch was to do the updates, just got back to using it and crash!
Mine boots up to the point of the UDev events, but when I change the boot line to use /dev/sdxx instead of the /dev/disk/by-id/ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I go to the next step where the video mode changes, then it freezes. Half the other time it would stop at udev and either blank out totally or just stop. I don't even get a full bootup (standard or fallback). My other archs boot just fine.
Downgraded the kernel to the immediate previous kernel before .34 and booted upto the point of the window manager, so I think it's a problem with either the video driver or the xorg, because they were both updated at the same time, but the kernel may be a bit buggy also. (Of course, using the chroot and the arch install CD appropriate for my arch). Also, it only shows up on one screen on the dual headed setup, which makes obvious which one isn't working.
When the kernel calls the videomode (same one that can be called from kernel command line), that's when it is dying. The only machine I'm having trouble with is the same one that will be the only one to do any updates, maybe this will fix the problem.
The updates didn't make any difference. It still hangs at the videomode change. Was able to get a read out one time that one of the video cards had wrong ROM contents?
Have had to use the top level ftp.archlinux.org just to get the most recent updates, without having to fish through mirrors.
My presumption is that the kernel/video hardware is just not working in console mode or the graphics mode.
Strangely enough both of my hardwares, one is a mobile intel 945 and the other is a desktop 945. The mobile works without a hitch, and the desktop freezes.
Last edited by nomorewindows (2010-08-15 21:23:56)

10.6 definitely won't stop random freezing on my MacBook 13"

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