Clean swap
imac G5 panther.
Just sucessfully installed a new hard drive in my imac. I am giving the imac to my sister for Christmas, so i didn't initiate the sign up process when asked. I wanted her to sign up as the administrator when she gets the computer. Will any data show up in the finder since the imac still has the same memory and logic board, even with the new hard drive installed? Someone told me that i had to change everything for a clean sweep. I think that person is wrong. Thank you.
jwhage
John:
Nice brother!
Will any data show up in the finder since the imac still has the same memory and logic board, even with the new hard drive installed?
If you installed the new HDD, formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and installed Panther fresh and shut down just before the setup, there is no data on the HDD. All data is stored in the Users Folder on the Hard Disk Drive (not on the logic board, or RAM memory). Your informant is mistaken.
Good luck, and have a Merry Christmas!
cornelius
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However, while the office iMac also only has 4 Gigs of memory, it can be upgraded to 16.......
What I'm thinking of doing is copying both machine to a partitioned EHD, then wiping both clean, swapping them, then reinstalling all the home stuff with Mavericks and upgrading it to the 16 Gigs, and taking the other one to the office and reinstalling everything with Snow Leopard on it, and maybe upgrading it to 8 Gigs, just because.
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EtreCheck version: 1.9.15 (52)
Report generated August 25, 2014 at 8:42:12 PM MDT
Hardware Information: ?
iMac (20-inch, Early 2009) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac9,1
1 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
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NVIDIA GeForce 9400 - VRAM: 256 MB
iMac 1680 x 1050
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OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 0 days 4:28:52
Disk Information: ?
ST31000342ASQ disk0 : (1 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (696.85 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S
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Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
HP Officejet 5600 series
Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Logitech USB Receiver
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Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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Mac App Store and identified developers
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How do i install os on new clean HD once swapped?
I have new macbook pro 13" with ivy bridge released on 6/11/2012. I want to install new ssd in it. I figured out hardware procedure but need some help figuring out how to put os on new hd.
How do i install os on new clean HD once swapped?
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Step Four: New Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
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How clean export/import (st02) swaps?
Hi
We are facing a big problem in PRD environment, point is, very low PRD time performance and users need to work; checking on ST02 systems shows Buffers "Export/Import" swaps values high ( red ), We were wondering if exists a T/C which help us to clean buffers?
Thanks your help!!!Hugo, (tu hablas español, si es asi hay un foro en español tambien)
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Did the server was working right and then turned slow from some time ago? or
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Hello,
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2: The RAM needs to be
Maximum Memory
3.0 GB (Actual) 2.0 GB (Apple)
Memory Slots
2 - 200-pin PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 SO-DIMM
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3: This User Tip can assist in installing 10.6 Snow Leopard, partition format etc.
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
Software Update fully immediately after setup.
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4: If not successful then the drive also likely needs to be replaced, if so choose a 7,200 RPM SATA I w/1.5Gb/s connection.
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Repeat #3
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* Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
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You can check the Virtual Memory settings here: Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance > Settings (Advanced tab)<br />
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MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
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2% firefox
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0 B Page-outs1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.
Don't be put off merely by the seeming complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.
2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can read it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of the script have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message.
Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
4. Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed:
☞ Copy a line of text in this window to the Clipboard.
☞ Paste into the window of another application.
☞ Wait for the test to run. It usually takes a few minutes.
☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.
The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. You don't need to copy a second time. Details follow.
5. You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode, under the conditions in which the problem is reproduced. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
7. The script is a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, though you may not see all of it in the browser window, and you can then copy it. If you try to select the line by dragging across the part you can see, you won't get all of it.
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MBP App Memory Clean showing a total of only 3.38GB RAM, although my MAC should have a total of 4?
Hello all,
Perhaps a question more for the tech-experts (I'm not one ) :
I have been running the (well-known) App Memory Clean for a while, and have been quite satisfied with its "Auto-Clean" function, as it saves me up on the Disk swapping.
However, as I open the App, there are a few options that can be seen:
Active
Wired
Inactive
Free
Used
Total
My MBP Retina (late '13) has a 4GB RAM installed- and yet the "Total" RAM memory that Memory Clean displays is a mere 3.41 GB and fluctuating. I have checked Activity Monitor as well as About this Mac>More Info>System Report> Memory, showing me that all slots are "OK".
Is this an app "bug"? If so, that would be relieving, but nonetheless brings me to a more deep-rooted question:
Is constantly "cleaning" the RAM bad for it and for the MBP's performance?
(I have heard that Memory Clean runs by "dumping disk cache"- which is supposedly bad for system performance...?)I also have your concerns. I have a first gen rMBP with 16 GB of RAM and I often see every bit of RAM being used!
So far I’ve been too chicken to upgrade my mid ’11 MBA since it only has 4 GB. I understand Mavericks utilizes RAM differently, but I’m still skeptical. Mavericks hasn’t been as stable as most initial releases so I’m waiting until 10.9 doesn’t seem so much like a beta.
I’d like to see a good explanation of Mavericks memory management system vs prior versions of the OS. Apple’s quick explanation was ok but far from comprehensive.
BTW, I switched to FreeMemory when I upgraded to Mavericks. It has all the same functions as Memory Clean but has the added benefit of having a menu bar icon with the familiar pie chart that Activity Monitor once had for a dock icon but lost in the upgrade.
For now I'll disable the auto clean feature and see how the system behaves, but I'll keep it installed just for it's monitoring capabilities. -
Can I create a system disk on one machine, and swap it into another?
I just reinstalled the Win 7 Pro operating system, using lenovo install disks, on my 3820/K1000m W530. I may end up getting a 3840QM/K2000M W530, and wanted to know if I can just swap the disk I just made into the new machine, this avoiding the issue of re-creating the disk. I have Windows Office 2013 on the thing. I was hoping to
1) Deactivate Windows 2013 (and adobe creative suite) on the source machine from the source disk.
2) Physically Install a clean Samsung 850 Pro 500 into the new target machine.
3) Put the source disk in a usb-based disk case and attach it to the target machine.
4) Boot to a diskcopy program from the optical drive on the target machine.
5) Copy the system disk, with all my ancillary programs and such, onto the target machine
6) Restore the source disk to the source machine.
7) Boot the target machine and (here's what I'm hoping) have the target machine validate/activate windows 7
8) reactivate office on the target machine, and reinstall the Adobe license
9) reactivate office on the source machine
I would then have two functional machines, a main (target) and a spare.
Will this work? Or must I install win 7 from scratch?
IF this is not possible, do the W530 Bioses have a windows s/n that is version specific? In other words, if I can dig up Windows Ultimate (I'd like to get bitlocker), can I install that instead of pro?
Thanks!
Jim
Two W530s, i7-3820QM, 2.7Ghz, 500Gb Samsung 850 Pro, 1920x1080, nVidia K2000m/100m, Win 7 Pro
T510, M540, 2.53Ghz, 1Tb hybrid drive, Win 7 Pro
Two T61ps, T9500/T9300, 2.6GHz, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 Evo, 1900x1200, nVidia 256Mb FX 570m, Win 7 Pro/UltimateI have to disagree with you, DSperber. First of all Microsoft doesn't care if you install Windows, as long as you have a valid COA and your version matches that COA. You can actually download the Windows 7 ISOs for the Windows version you need! I understand that they legally require a COA on each Win machine sold, to allow folks to rebuild blown systems. This is discussed on the microsoft Windows 7 forum:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/where-can-i-download-wind...
You can download the ISO, load it, and then use the COA key to validate. Apparently while Microsoft requires this printed COA, they prefer it to be used only in extreme cases, as when the oem SLP does not work. I take this to mean that Microsoft WANTS you to install the OEM software, rather than bother them. Because if you use the printed COA activation key, you have to contact MS to validate it.
Some more information is here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/what-is-different-between...
The point is, the COA sticker on the computer vouches that you are entitled to have a valid Windows license on that computer. It may be that Lenovo doesn't want you to use the recovery disks from another computer. If so, your note would seem to imply that Lenovo is actually more restrictive about their software than Microsoft!
I understand that using the recovery disks from another computer may seem to deprive Lenovo of the 50 bucks they get when you order them. I wish I could have saved that money several times. But hey, these disks aren't customized. You call in with your model number and serial number, and Lenovo sends out recovery disks with the approprate version of windows originally sold with the machine (sorry, Vista customers!), with the OEM SLP. So its not a licensing issue, it's a (very small) revenue issue. And every time someone is able to resurrect their Lenovo machine without a hassle and without that $50, it's worth far, far more in terms of good will. Perhaps saving that 50 bucks is what pushes me over the edge to buy a new W541 or W550!
Jim
I currently have:
2 T61ps, both Pennryn, both 8Gb Crucial RAM, both 1Tb hybrid drives, T9500 and
1 T510, (I forget the specs)
2 W530s, both i7-8420QM, 16Gb and 8Gb, both Samsung 850 Pro 256Gb SSDs, K1000m and K2000m, with 1080p screens.
Two W530s, i7-3820QM, 2.7Ghz, 500Gb Samsung 850 Pro, 1920x1080, nVidia K2000m/100m, Win 7 Pro
T510, M540, 2.53Ghz, 1Tb hybrid drive, Win 7 Pro
Two T61ps, T9500/T9300, 2.6GHz, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 Evo, 1900x1200, nVidia 256Mb FX 570m, Win 7 Pro/Ultimate -
Cleaning a schmotz off the iBook screen... and HD and Optical drivequestion
FIRST: I was hoping to find this info in a FAQ somewhere, but couldn't come up with it. I have an iBook G4 (14-inch Late 2004)/1.33GHz/768 MB RAM/ATA 40GB HD/Slot-loading combo -- NOT Super -- drive) that I bought second-hand from some leased-computer salvage yard. The price was right and it works fine, but in its former apparently corporate life, it looks like somebody blew their nose on the screen, then made a half-hearted attempt to wipe it off with a dirty sock. There's a schmotz almost dead center in the screen (that you can really see when the Book is on) as a maybe 1 mm gray smudge, and when the Book is off, you can see a larger, streaked area where someone apparently tried to clean off the original blemish, whatever it is. Could someone suggest the safest, least screen-threatening method of cleaning this muck off the display?
SECOND: I have a couple Aluminum (I think, though the ports arranged at the rear -- not the sides -- make them look like TiBooks) 15" PBG4s. One has a 40GB, and the other has a 60GB 4200-rpm Ultra ATA/66 HD (though I thought the bigger one was 80GB or 100GB -- is this possible?). Both PBG4s are in full working order, except their displays are dead (one from me dropping one of the 'Books on a tile floor from a height of about 4 feet, the other from the dreaded display-cable-through-the-left-hinge-flex-and-finally-break syndrome. Since the HDs in the PBG4 are Ultra ATA/66/4200 rpm, and the iBook G4 HD is a 40GB ATA/100 4200 rpm, is it possible to swap one of the PBG4 Ultra ATA HDs for the plain old ATA HD in the iBook G4?
THIRD: Is it possible, or even worthwhile, to replace the iBook G4's Combo Drive for one of the PBG4 SuperDrives?
Thanks for your help!
Bart BrownBart:
The HDDs from the PBs should work fine if they are still functional. Any 2.5" ATA/IDE drive should work.
In terms of the smudge, try a damp lint-free cloth. You may need repeated applications. Wipe in circular motions. You can probably try a mild soap like ivory, but wipe it off with a damp cloth immediately. Soaps other than ivory may have caustic substances that can hurt the display.
In terms of swapping the optical drive for a SuperDrive it may work, although I am not sure if they both need to be the same make. Try it and let us know.
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No backup possible, even after a clean re-install
I - NEED - HELP!!!
This is what happens before I encountered my problems with backing up my hard drive:
I'm using a MacBook Pro 17" Unibody. The hard drive was partitioned into two partitions. The first one was the bootcamp partition, 50 GBytes in size, running Windows 7 Ultimate. The second partition was the Mac OS X partition, 450 GBytes in size and running Mac OS X 10.6.4.
I had to change the size of the bootcamp partition due to a Windows game installation. For this I bought an used "CampTune 8.0" from Paragon Software. The repartitioning using "CampTune" didn't report any errors so I assumed everything was fine. But then I saw the slow dying of a Mac:
Trying to boot into Windows lead to the error message the the installation was damaged and I should repair it using the repair option of the Windows install DVD. I did as I told but was always caught in the startup loop:
"1. Insert install DVD
2. Restart your computer
3. Choose the repair option"
Trying to boot into Mac OS X shows a strange behaviour ranging from getting stuck in file system checking up to not being able to log in as normal user. Instead I was only able to log in as administrator. And when I was able to log in, there where more and more kernel panics during access to all kinds of volumes (internal hard drive, external USB hard drives, USB sticks...)
Fortunately I was able to save (NOT backup) my users home folder by hand.
And now the strange things started...
I decided to do a clean install of my Mac OS X 10.6.4 and all of my applications. For that I repartitioned the internal hard drive to one partition, chose the GUID-patition table, then formatted the drive using the option "overwrite with zeros".
Then I installed my Mac OS X and the applications and tried to do a bootable backup to an external USB hard drive. This drive I had partitioned with one partition, GUID-partition table and formatted it also using the option "overwrite with zeros".
I used the software "Data Backup 3" from ProSoft Engineering. But during backup there was a kernel panic and after that the B-tree of my internal drive was corrupted. I couldn't be repaired by Mac OS X. But the internal drive was still readable.
I tried again and again with "Data Backup 3", always ending in a kernel panic. But the active thread always was different (sometimes it was launchd, CleanApp deamon, Kasperskys kav deamon) without a repeating pattern.
I was able to make a backup using "Carbon Copy Clone 3.3", fortunately, and started from the backup. After that I used "TechToolPro 5.0.7" to find out if there were surface errors or problems in the directory structure. But even "TechToolPro" caused a kernel panic when accessing the hard drive...
To restore the contents of my external drive to the internal one I used "SmartBackup 3" from Solesignal Ltd. because I thought "Data Backup 3" caused the kernal panics. But it was the same with "SmartBackup 3": accessing the hard drives during backup causes kernel panics...
My last idea then was to use the restore function of Apples disk utility. And it worked. But when I copied the contents of my saved user home folder, I caused a kernel panic when the size of data copied exceeds more then approximately 80 GBytes. And after that the B-tree of my backup drive was corrupted.
This all is strange to me, because I installed a fresh system.
Does anyone encountered similar problems using backup software? And is there a solution for this?
Regards
Ansgarwhatever I tried I couldn't get the camera to work. So took it into local apple store and they swapped immediately with a new iphone 5.
loads of chatter on the internet about it.
This discussion has had 19000+ views
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5327076?start=90&tstart=0 -
Windows vista 64 bits + xfi xtreme music + logitech g51 + SWAPS CHANN
Hello ! I am heber from argentina! bs as! federal discrict! Hey guys! you are soo cool! you help me a lot of times! but now i have to write to you becausa i dont get a solid solution to my problem. I search and see that there are some users with the same problem but i dont see a solid answer. The things that i do to try the fix the problem was clean and unninstall the drivers and soft with tools like driver sweeper etc and install the last driver but the result is the same. The only thing i found like a temporal solution when the problem happend its do the the assignement in the panel thx. I want to ask you if there is a solution, a permanent one...plz! becausa i am going to the thx panel like 30 times per day!!! i am going crazy! For more details i copy and edit a message from a user that have the same problem that i , read it plz : Ever since installing the latest drivers, 2.5. or whatever they are, I have sound and 5. support now using an X-Fi Xtreme music with Vista 64 bit (2GB), The card just randomly swaps channels on me. What I mean is, if I start from a fresh boot, I'll get all 5 speakers working in a 5. movie or video game or mp3. Shortly after though, it will swap all the sound to only the back channels and then only teh front channels, and sometimes only the center channel. Most of times it does in pairs , meaning that it wont be like front left and back right, always both back speakers and then both front speakers. Either way, it totally breaks the surround sound and it's rather annoying to hear the sound travel from front to back etc. Is there some way to fix this or anyone know the cause of this I'm about done with Creative and their crappy support for Vista. I might have to go back to on board 5. support if this keeps up. Well if you need something else! please let me know! and if you give me a hand i will be very happy ^^ . Thank you and a big hugh from argentina! PD: PLZ CREATIVE! YOUR SOUNDCARDS ARE THE BEST ! IN MY OPINION! BUT YOUR DRIVERS AND SUPPORT NEEDS MORE ATTENTION! PLZ!!! DO SOMETHING! FOR YOUR BEST!!!!!!
THIS IS A 3RD PARTY METHOD AND OF COURSE THERE IS NO SUPPORT !!!
BEFORE YOU PROCEED PLEASE UNISTALL EVERYTHING AND USE DRIVERSWEEPER OR DRIVERCLEANER TO CLEAN YOUR REGISTRY TOO !!!
Ok here's a new alternative way that new driver will work 100% both XP and Vista (32/64)
install the 2007 suite (please do custom and do not install the audio drivers except everything else)
http://rapidshare.com/files/09758046/2007Suite-PAX.part.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/09760807/2007Suite-PAX.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/09763635/2007Suite-PAX.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/09766722/2007Suite-PAX.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/09769992/2007Suite-PAX.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/09770659/2007Suite-PAX.part6.rar
(please burn the suite on a CD or DVD)(some applications have been moddified from the original 2007suite-pax, please re-download the suite!!!)
Ok after the installation of suite is finished do not restart your PC and install the following drivers:
http://rapidshare.com/files/09755063/SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_5_0006_FX.rar
Now you can restart the PC. Tested with all versions of windows (Windows XP / Vista both 32 and 64 bit !!!)
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Apple apps crashing after clean install
After having massive problems with fast user switching I did a complete clean install of my system a few months ago. Worked fine at first, but after a while I began to experience new problems.
Here's the pattern: after I power on and boot up and open a few applications, within the first 10 minutes one of the apps will hang up with the spinning beach ball. In Force Quit the app is "not responding", so I force quit. The app disappears from the list, but is still showing as running in the dock and the app's window is still visible. I return to Force Quit, the app is back on the list and still "not responding", force quit a second time and then the program closes. From there, the other programs won't respond, and when I try to restart everything closes and it gets down to the point of the menu bar disappearing but won't complete the restart. I have to press the power button, forcing the shutdown. I power back up, and everything works properly now. Once I eventually shut the computer down, though, this whole chain of events repeats itself every time I power back up.
The one common thread is that it's always an Apple app that crashes...I've had it happen with the Finder, TextEdit, iCal, Mail, Safari, Address Book, and Logic Pro. Sometimes there's a Rescued Items folder in the trash with a file from the crashed app, sometimes not.
I did the usual troubleshooting (repaired permissions, ran DiskWarrior), even tried installing the 10.4.8 update again from the combo updater, made no difference.
What's going on here? (and please don't suggest to just leave it powered on all the time...)
Thanks,
MikeThanks for the further suggestions.
I ran a hardware test, and everything comes out fine. The only change to my setup over the last year has been swapping out the one hard drive, which is mostly a storage archive and would not be causing these problems.
Looking at the crash log for Logic, here is a consistent problem that must be from the kernel panics that happen intermittently when quitting Logic Audio:
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 <<00000000>> 0xfffeff20 objcmsgSendrtp + 32
1 com.apple.AppKit 0x93799dd0 -[NSTableView _drawContentsAtRow:column:clipRect:] + 252
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x93799854 -[NSTableView drawRow:clipRect:] + 220
3 com.apple.AppKit 0x93799610 -[NSTableView drawRowIndexes:clipRect:] + 108
4 com.apple.prokit 0x962c2b94 NSProApplicationLoad + 50680
5 com.apple.prokit 0x962c2634 NSProApplicationLoad + 49304
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372d858 -[NSView _drawRect:clip:] + 2128
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372ce18 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 404
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372fb60 _recursiveDisplayInRect2 + 84
9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907ec3c4 CFArrayApplyFunction + 416
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372cf2c -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 680
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372c3e0 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 196
12 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372c9a8 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 1676
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372c9a8 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 1676
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372c9a8 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 1676
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372c9a8 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 1676
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372c9a8 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 1676
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x9372c9a8 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 1676
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x9374d044 -[NSThemeFrame _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectFor View:topView:] + 192
19 com.apple.prokit 0x962d4800 NSProApplicationLoad + 123492
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x93726054 -[NSView _displayRectIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:] + 384
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x9371b348 -[NSView displayIfNeeded] + 248
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x9371b1b8 -[NSWindow displayIfNeeded] + 180
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x9371b064 _handleWindowNeedsDisplay + 200
24 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907dc73c __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 352
25 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907dc9dc __CFRunLoopRun + 420
26 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907dc47c CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
27 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93205740 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264
28 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93204d4c ReceiveNextEventCommon + 244
29 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93249ee4 AcquireNextEventInMode + 72
30 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93249cd4 RunApplicationEventLoop + 132
31 com.apple.logic.pro 0x001e99a4 0x1000 + 2001316
32 com.apple.logic.pro 0x0000bcd4 0x1000 + 44244
33 com.apple.logic.pro 0x00003584 0x1000 + 9604
34 com.apple.logic.pro 0x0000342c 0x1000 + 9260
Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x00000000fffeff20 srr1: 0x100000000200f930 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x44822224 xer: 0x0000000020000000 lr: 0x0000000093799dd0 ctr: 0x000000009379a378
r0: 0x0000000040271c10 r1: 0x00000000bfffdca0 r2: 0x0000000000000000 r3: 0x000000000d427930
r4: 0x0000000090ab7a04 r5: 0x000000000d88bb30 r6: 0x000000000cede5f0 r7: 0x0000000000000000
r8: 0x0000000041600000 r9: 0x000000000d88bb30 r10: 0x000000009004380c r11: 0x000000006f557a04
r12: 0x00000000018f141b r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x00000000bfffe890 r15: 0x0000000000000001
r16: 0x000000000da6e350 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000000000 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x00000000a62a2690 r21: 0x00000000ffffffff r22: 0x00000000bfffe004 r23: 0x0000000000000000
r24: 0x0000000000000000 r25: 0x0000000000000000 r26: 0x000000000d88bb30 r27: 0x0000000000000000
r28: 0x0000000000000000 r29: 0x000000000cede5f0 r30: 0x00000000a37186cc r31: 0x0000000093799cd4
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x72636573
Thread 0 Crashed:
It's all greek to me...can anyone interpret?
Thanks,
Mike -
What is the best way to clean up your mac and make it faster and run to an optimum level?
Hi Everyone, Hope all is well
Iv been running my mac pro for a long time now, its a Mac pro, 2x 2.26 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon. 12 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 Ram
Over time now it has become slower, at the moment its still running fine but im sure over time it has probabally collected unwanted data etc. i just dont want it to become a problem as its only going to be used more and more... i now notice that some of the regular programs which i open do take a little while longer to open and i sometimes see that little round Mac loading the sign (the round multicolor wheel).., is there a way to clean the mac up? so that it can run more smoothly and just a better over all feel.,,, the machine is still running beautifully but its time i give it more care and revive it a little more..
What are the best ways to do this, i dont trust any of these non apple based products which claim they can clean ur Mac etc.
Any solutaion and advice that u guys can give would be great and i would be very thankful
Thanks in advanceFor immediate speed improvements, upgrade to a Solid State Drive and upgrade your conventional hard drives to new ones, because the newer ones are faster at reading and writing than the ones from 5 years ago.
By Re-installing your OS onto a solid state drive, the system will boot much faster, and your programs will launch much faster.
I use a small SSD (only 60GB) which contains only OS X and all my apps. All of my personal files are on the large mechanical hard drive. If you still use the drive that shipped with the Mac, then it might be a good idea to replace it.
Depending on what kind of work you do, then additional RAM will help. Swapping CPUs should only be done if you are really in need of the improvements they would bring.
You appear to have the 2009 dual-CPU Mac Pro, which is the most challenging model to swap CPUs into. -
Hello people I have got a Laptop PC with 320GB hard drive installed and I want to swap it with my current 120GB hard drive on my Macbook... So for the 320GB hard drive i’ll have to format that to Mac OS Extended? Then with the 120GB i’ll have to format it to NTFS? Then obviously installl the operating systems on each?
There's no such thing as a windows or Mac hard drive! Just hard drives that have one or the other installed on them. As long as the drives both have the same specifications just wipe them clean, format them properly and install new OS on each.
Yes, in order for the Mac drive to be bootable you MUST select GUID.
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