HELP ME! My MacBook Keeps Freezing!

Ok, I really have no Idea whats going on, some things freeze and some things don't.
Preview, Microsoft Word, started freezing first, at that time I got a pop up saying I had a courrpt font and it was going to be disabled, but I never say that again.
Anyway I figured it was probably a bad font so I tried to open font book, but it freezes, I tried to to open disk utility to repair my hard drive maybe, BUT IT FREEZES TOO!!!
Also Utorrent freezes, and so does Chrome on certain websites (like keepvid.com a youtube downloading website.)
And get ready for the big on Console Freezes! So I Can't even read my crash logs.
When my programs freeze I am able to force quit them with in a minute so I don't have to restart, but If I leave them to see if they will run the whole computer freezes.
Also, yesterday there was a number missing from my MacBooks digital clock, the time read 9:4 AM instead of 9:45 AM, ***?
I have my OSX disk should I just reinstall eveything? and if so how would I go about doing that?
Any help would be greatly apperciated!
THANKS

Try to repair disc permissions. Also see if MSOffice is compatible with Lion.

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I have a mid-2012 13" non-retina display Macbook Pro that I got this year in September, and the past few days I've been experiencing issues with it. It keeps freezing and will not respond at all unless I hold in the power button. I bought it standard but I upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 8GB last month. It was able to run all the same programs at once even with 4GB. I did happen to drop it about 3ft a few days ago. It landed on the top right corner, where the power button is located and the casing did take some damage. The case is dented in a little where it landed, it somewhat dislocated the allignment of the screen with the body when it's closed, and a dent popped just below the power button but it still works perfectly fine. It is running Mavericks and I know some of my friends who have Mac experience some issues with Mavericks. And last night when it froze, I held in the power button to shut it down as it would not respond at all and when I turned it on and the Apple logo appeared, these huge, black bars appeared on my screen in random spots for abot 3 seconds and then went away. It never started up until I shut it down yet again and it started back up normally as if nothing happened. The RAM upgrade I bought wan't from Apple either. I got it from another company called Crucial Memory, and I did order a RAM upgrade for my last laptop from there before I got rid of it. And if I replaced the ATA drive in my Mac with an SSD, would it speed up?

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Help! i tunes keeps freezing

Ok - first of all i am new to all of this...been using a PC and just gone to an I mac.So be kind! Basically any advice on a very simple question but it is driving me mad..I have been happily using i tunes but today it opens up and then keeps freezing. the coloured circle keeps spinning round even when just trying to play a song. Even after a force quit it just keeps on doing it. Yesterday it was all totally fine. Any thoughts?...i haven't exactly given a great deal of info there have I?..

Welcome to AD!
First off, get the Sony Content Watcher software sorted on your Vaio. It seems to deliberately conflict with the itunes library database file.
Here's a link to some older topics with fixes.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9345281

Seriously tried everything and my macbook keeps freezing...HELP

I have a white macbook 2,1. Running 10.7.5 with two gigs of crucial memory, installed 3 years ago (passed Rember test yesterday), installed new HD, I only have the OS loaded and Rember. No other programs. Everything works fine, but after anywhere between 1 minute and 15 minutes after start up, it will freeze. The freeze is more like being super slow. Super slow as in it will take the 3 minutes for the pointer to get caught up to where it was moving. I ran hardware test holding down "d" while starting up. All passed. My screen is fine, no flickering. I am at a total loss. After reseting the PRAM it seems to last a bit longer before freezing, but it still ends up freezing. If I close the cover and open it back up it is guaranteed to freeze immediately. I am open to any suggestions. I even clean the logic board, fan, heat sink, new thermal paste and nothing has helped. Please HELLLLLLP!

If you don't have the Applecare extended warranty then you will need to pay for the fix. The fix is a New Logic Board. It seems as your Graphics card is failing in some way. No there is no software fix for this.
The Graphic chip is soldered to the logic board and the only way to change/fix it is to replace the complete logic board.
Good Luck and Best Wishes

HELP ME! My MacBook Keeps Freezing!

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