Computer makes clunking sound after installing OS Lion

Ever since I installed OS Lion, my iMac now makes a quiet regular clunking sound all the time in the background, as if it is processing something. ....Never noticed this before. Any ideas what this could be?

Computers don't make clunking sounds when they are processing things. You can't hear the processor. You might conceivably be hearing a malfunctioning fan.
If the sound is audible, take your mac to an Apple store for a hardware test.

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Ive just upgraded my late 2009 macbook, and things are not working properly. First of all, when I started the computer first time after installing Mountain Lion, some message advised me that some files were impossible to install.

Ive just upgraded my late 2009 macbook, and things are not working properly. First of all, when I started the computer first time after installing Mountain Lion, some message advised me that some files were impossible to install. Once I wrote my password, and for now on, everytime I start the session, another window advise me that "Java SE 6" is missing, due that, the computer can't run some "CS5Service Manager". If I try to install it, the download ends with an error. If finally, you skip the istallation, you arrive to the dock, but the menu bar at the top of the screen doesn't show up.
In addition, my trackpad doesn't works either. I can move the arrow but i can't click anywhere, probably because the option of clicking by touching is disabeled and I can't performance a regular click.
I'll be very glad if someone know what the heck is happening with my computer. Anyway, I'm going to the genius bar next Saturday. Thx!

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After install the lion ، the computer it's became slow

hi
After install the lion ، the computer became slow , i don't know why . my macbook Pro Core I7 4GB ram
and Adobe photoshop cs5 very very very slow i can't work with it please Help Me , My job depends on Photoshop
i thinking to back the snow leopard by Time machine if i don't find any Solution ,,, please help me

Is their any way I can delete or remove the lastest update ?
You can't "downgrade" with the present (newer) system in place. The only way you can do it is if you either saved the previous installer or made a bootable clone (or Time Machine) before you updated. The reason: you need to boot off a different drive, wipe your disk, and then fresh install the previous system (or clone it back).
You can also check in Activity Monitor (Applications > Utilities) to see which processes/apps are consuming a lot of RAM, and, check on the bottom to see how much RAM is being used, swapped, etc.
here is an example of what that looks like:
First shot is showing that the main use of RAM is by Firefox and kernel_task (part of the system):
Second shot shows the RAM being used/available (lloks good here):
If indexing has finished, can you post similar screenshots of your machine please?
And, a last question: how much free space do you have left on your hard drive? Pleae post that info as well.

After installing Mountain Lion. Under sound, where it says select an output device, it say no output devices found and there is no sound. How do I fix this? I have reinstalled the os twice and still the same. I have also repaired permissions.

After installing Mountain Lion. No sound. Under sound, where it says select an output device, it says no output devices found, and there is no sound. How do I fix this? I have reinstalled the os twice and still the same. I have also repaired permissions.

Try resetting the PRAM and SMC...
PRAM Reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
SMC Reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Hope this helps!

HT1199 my computer displays grey screen and apple logo for 10 minutes or more during start up and shut down. sometimes it refuses to shut down . this issues started after installing OS lion. what do i do?

my computer displays grey screen and apple logo for 10 minutes or more during start up and shut down. sometimes it refuses to shut down . this issues started after installing OS lion. what do i do?

I don't think it's exactly an incomplete installation brody, but most likely in-correct permissions somewhere along the line that either happened, or became magnified during the upgrade. Also, it could be corruption as well.
First thing to do, is boot up holding down Shift key to do a safe-boot so we an clean up any corrupted OS caches, after that do another reboot, but go to the Lion recovery, and scan the HD for errors, repair any if you find them, and then try to do a Repair Permissions job.
That should fix the issue, if not, we can start doing a PRAM reset and SMC for good measure.

Bluetooth inactive after installing mountain lion - your computer restarted because of a problem

Good day
I read up on forums, and I think my reboot error is due to my bluetooth that is inactive, which happened after installing Mountain Lion
My Bluetooth worked before under Snow Leopard
I have deleted the file under library to no avail
I have rebooted with cmd option P R to no avail
I have repaired permissions and this is the only message that pops up, and bluetooth still does not work after reboot.
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
This is my CONSOLE error report
Fri Sep 14 11:27:24 2012
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8002eb7b95): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f83acc6c2, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000008, CR3: 0x00000000050d2000, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0x7fffffffffffffff, RDX: 0x0000000000000200
RSP: 0xffffff808170bd70, RBP: 0xffffff808170be20, RSI: 0x00000000000001ff, RDI: 0x0000000000000001
R8: 0x0000000000000001, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x0000000000000001, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0xffffff800fe37401, R13: 0xffffff800d8b1e00, R14: 0xffffff800e1bb000, R15: 0xffffff7f83b06500
RFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff7f83acc6c2, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000008, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff808170ba10 : 0xffffff8002e1d5f6
0xffffff808170ba80 : 0xffffff8002eb7b95
0xffffff808170bc50 : 0xffffff8002ece4ad
0xffffff808170bc70 : 0xffffff7f83acc6c2
0xffffff808170be20 : 0xffffff8003247b6a
0xffffff808170be80 : 0xffffff7f83ace2f4
0xffffff808170beb0 : 0xffffff800323b708
0xffffff808170bf40 : 0xffffff8003236b65
0xffffff808170bf60 : 0xffffff8002e3dcae
0xffffff808170bfb0 : 0xffffff8002eb2677
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.AppleBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport(4.0.9f8)[AFA59211-C064- 3DA0-83BB-DA8DD75CBED5]@0xffffff7f83ac6000->0xffffff7f83aebfff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(5.1.6)[3D499FAA-A5C4-3ED8-BF37-3B561ED21D64]@0xffff ff7f83463000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[A35915E8-C1B0-3C0F-81DF-5515BC9002FC]@0xfffff f7f83981000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7)[8C9E06A4-13D0-33F5-A377-9E36F0ECC229]@0xffffff 7f83441000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
12B19
Please assist and I hope my thinking is correct that this is what is causing my restart error.

I have been having the same problem for the past 2 days.I installed Mountain lion 5 days ago.There wasn't any problem for the first 3 days but after that my computer won't shut down,it always restarts when i ask it to shut down and i get the same message as dan1101.what is going on????

My macbook pro is very slow after installing mountain lion

my macbook pro is very slow after installing mountain lion? Is anyone else having this issue?

If you don't use an SSD and bump your RAM up to 8 Gb's you may experience slow speeds, but I noticed slow speeds with your general configuration in SL.
one thing you should consider right now is, Spotlight is Reindexing your hard drive, that takes time and resources, (resources which you don't necessarily have to spare).
If you continue feeling like your performance is slow, you have a few options with this computer (I have the same one).
the express card slot can house a wintec SSD drive. That little door on the side of your machine is pure gold for a really quick solution for speeding up your machine. I have one in mine right now i'm using as a scratch disk for CS6 but I used to boot from it, and the speed boost was out of this world.
You could take out the internal HDD and put in a new SSD (I have a Vertex 4 from OCZ) it is completely over kill but my experience is pretty fast and I keep up with the later MBP models colleagues have.
There are some other options for you like taking out the optical drive (however I don't know if I'm supposed to talk about that here). Google Data Doubler.
You need to also set it to always use the 9600 chipset, this will increase performance a lot too. to do this go to system preferences>energy saver>Better Performance. This switches the video card to the better one and makes a world of difference.
Lastly, your RAM. after an EFI Firmware update, our computer support up to 8GBs of RAM. Do it!
Late 08 MBP 2.53 GHZ 9600 chipset 8gb ram, Vertex 4 SSD

After installing Mountain Lion two drives on my network cannot be accessed. I am using Parallels to utilize QuickBooks ERP. The programs and data are on the drives that I can no longer access. Suggestions?

After installing Mountain Lion on my Mac Book Pro, I can no longer access two shared drives. Diagostics cannot solve the problem. I am using Parallels to run Qucikbooks ERP on these shared drives. How do I get my Mac to see these drives and access them?

Don't know what to tell you, but I also have an AEBS-Gen5 with a MBP Retina and Mac Mini using WiFi. Both are running Mountain Lion and I don't have any WiFi connection issues. Two iPhones in the household use WiFi with no issues along with a printer and 2 Windows 7 laptops.
First thing I would try is to shutdown all computers connected to the AEBS. Then power off the AEBS and finally the cable/DSL modem. Then reverse the order and power on the cable modem, wait for all the lights to be solid, power on the AEBS, wait for the light to show solid green; then power up a computer that uses WiFi.
If the above doesn't work, you might try repairing permissions via Disk Utility. If that doesn't help maybe a PRAM reset would work.

Virus in safari after installing OS Lion

Shortly after installing OSX Lion, I downloaded content from three "Rorshach" sites, and now whenever I open Safari, three windows open and a dialogue box pops up in front saying I have won a free iPad. There is no way to close the pop-up, and I have to force quite Safari to use my computer. I can't uninstall and reinstall Safari, because it is part of the operating system. What should I do? I have time machine backups of my data, but not my OS.

As Kirk says, you don't have a virus.
In Lion, apps re-open whatever windows were open when they quit the next time you start them up. So, you quit Safari with those pop-ups open, so it's trying to re-open them every time you launch it again.
Why can't you close those pop-ups? All Safari windows should be closeable, and I'm not aware of any way to prevent that. Can you provide a screenshot? Use command-shift-3 (or command-shift-4 to select only a part of the screen), then upload the photo here by clicking the camera icon in the editor.

Isight problem after installing osx lion

after installing ox lion, i can't start up my cam in some internet sites.
can somebody help me?

In Lion the Finder folder is now invisible. To make it permanetely visible enter the following in the Terminal applicaiton window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button on the keyboard.
OT

Why won't iTunes 10.6.3 work after installing Mountain Lion?

Why won't iTunes 10.6.3 work after installing Mountain Lion?

Instead of downloading from Apple updates on my computer, I went to apple.com, loaded it from there and the update worked fine.

Portege 3110ct has no sound after installing XP Pro

I'm a novice when it comes to laptops, so here is the problem: My 3110ct has no sound after installing XP Pro. Didn't have sound when I bought it with another operating system on, report says no sound device installed.
Does this mean I need to get a chip for the laptop or is it a driver I need & where can I find the part or the driver for this.
Please help.

Usually if the sound driver was not installed you will get no sound but also a yellow exclamation mark should appear in the device manager.
If the sound card chip is damage I presume you will be not able to see the yellow exclamation belonging to the sound card in the device manager.
You bought this Portg as a second hand unit. Am I right?
So possibly the sound card is faulty.
The computer uses a ESS ES1978 (Maestro-2E) and ES1918 sound chip.
Check if you can find an XP sound driver in the internet.

After installing mountain Lion my wireless mouse stopped working

After installing mountain Lion my wireless mouse stopped working my wireless keyboard still works so I can get to the Bluetooth menu via search but once I'm there I can not figure out how to scroll down and select the mouse that is still listed as a linked device. I have already tried restarting the computer and changing the batteries. Called apple thinking they would help since I just bought mountain Lion but silly me apple does not give anything away for free. I was I never payed $20 for this p.o.s So-called operating system

You can bypass GateKeeper.

After installing Mountain Lion finder quits when I open desktop folder - why?

After installing Mountain Lion, finder quits when I open desktop folders. Not all folders.. I does it to new ones.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the process. The report name starts with the name of the crashed process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

After installing Mountain Lion, Expose no longer works.

After installing Mountain Lion, Expose no longer works.

Unfortunately the Expose feature as you know it from Snow Leopard was removed by Apple in Lion and Mountain Lion.
You can make all windows for an app 'expose' by putting the cursor on the Dock icon and using a 4-finger swipe-down.

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