Leopard partially freezes up.

I'll return to my brand new 24" iMac to find network activity is dead, the Dock is completely unresponsive (mouseover does nothing, likewise any other attempted interaction), command-tab is dead, the Apple menu can be accessed, but nothing results from it, I cannot bring up force quit either from the KB shortcut or the Apple menu, some programs will have the spinning beachball of death, others that can be accessed (by clicking on their window, if I'm lucky and it's not covered by a hung program's windows) but upon closing a window or quitting the app it too hangs.
This has happened six times now over a two week period.
To summarise: the Mac's networking is unresponsive (other Macs on the same LAN are fine, it isn't anything other than this one Mac), the Dock is totally frozen, Force Quit cannot be accessed, and apps hang when I do anything more serious than look at them.
I can no longer trust this new Mac to stay up and running while I am gone. This is but one of many annoying issues I am having with it. I've been through three wipes of the HD and clean reinstalls of Leopard to try and fix earlier problems (which still continue to occur). This is also my second iMac. The first was declared DOA in under eight hours. So I'm not having a lot of luck here.
Also - these forums appear to be suffering serious issues. It took several tries to try and post this message. I am getting the errors:
"500 Unable to insert thread into the database: No operations allowed after connection closed.
Resin Professional 3.0.23 (built Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:25:17 PST)"
"Not allowed to post messages more than once every 30 seconds." (but I haven't)
Plus upon login I was asked to create a user account???
Oh, and the drafts saved are incomplete. Nothing is working right with these forums.

What are you calling a clean install? This article explains the different installation options available:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607614
If you mean erase and install, it does sound like you have a hardware issue if you are getting partial freezes with no non-Apple devices connected to the computer and no non-Apple software installed. If any of these conditions is untrue, you have to eliminate all other potential causes this way after backing up your data at least twice to verify you definitely have a hardware issue with the computer. Bad RAM can cause such issues as my FAQ* here explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/badram.html
And can often start without warning because no RAM can be tested for errors accurately. If it reports errors in a test, you can believe it. If it doesn't report errors in a test, you can't believe it.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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Greetings,
since I've installed Leopard 10.5.4 on my MacBook Pro the day it came out, I have this weird behavior that sometimes Leopard completely freezes on me, i.e. doesn't accept mouse or keyboard input, nor does any application respond, no crashing or warning prompts.
This happens while I am either doing regular routines or on the Internet and my only chance was to hit the power button. In total 3 times over the past weeks. I can't say which application or setting might cause this. For example it happened when I switched from VMWare to Entourage. Another time after closing XCode or by working in MS Office for Mac.
I know that this decription isn't very specific, but I was wondering if that's a known bug and if anyone else experienced this?
Should I run any system tool after this type of reboot which I believe is everything but best practice?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
-Alex
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Is the cache cleaning for you s standard practice after each OS X update? If not i recommend it. Try with Leopard Cache Cleaner or Onyx.
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My iMac 10.6.8 w/ snow leopard keeps FREEZING/CRASHING??

ok lets see if i can type this without my computer freezing.
SO. to begin, i have a iMac 10.6.8 which also has snow leopard. I have recently downloaded many things, that ended up not working so i deleted them. I dont know if thats whats been slowing it down (the downloads still being installed but deleted from trash?) but lately my computer has been very glitchy. I dont have apple care or whatever, so i cant call.
This morning there was a "software update" so i decided, whatever, i'll do it. When i did, i rebooted and now my computer is freezing like a mother.
It is VERY ANNOYING and i dont know how to fix it. It just freezes randomly to. I go on safari for a minute, freeze, then hold power button to reboot.
or i click on another thing, freeze, hold power to reboot.
pretty much everything sets it off. I need to know WHY!? i have had it for a long time and its never been this bad. Another thing that sets it off is runescape. i play it from time to time when im bored, and now it freezes every time. but runescape isnt the only thing that freezes it, it freezes on everything else to. its so frustrating!!!!!!!!
i dont know what to do!?
i have tried these:
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i dont know what else to do. is there something i can download to clean up un-used apps. or unistall items?
i just want to play my games and have my iMac run smoothley. if anyone can help thatd be awsome.
skype me: castrojake
i just want someone who has had this happen, and fixed to help me out.
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Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
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Good morning,
Been using Snow Leopard on a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac pretty much since the day of launch. Initially was very pleased, no real problems, seemed to run even smoother than regular Leopard, however, recently, my system has developed a bunch of issues, particularly when running word and/or transmission (possibly other apps, but I have noticed with these two so far).
The main problem is, very randomly, the system will lock-up. This can be after 1 hour or 24 hours, there is no real correlation. After the lock up, you are able to use open apps, ie Transmission, Word, Safari, Finder, etc, but they do not function correctly...for example
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Check your Activity Monitor and see what your CPU power and memory are doing. How full is your hard drive?
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Re comparing to Irfan View:
For what it's worth, Irfan Skiljan's marketing strategy is just different than Adobe's. He may actually be more wealthy for having written that one application than most any Adobe engineer has made from Photoshop (well, maybe not Mr. Knoll). I know I've paid Irfan for my copy. By some counts he has hundreds of millions of copies in circulation. If only one in a thousand people paid him the $10... And who knows what Google pays him for piggybacking their stupid toolbar (grrrrr, but it's deselectable)...
I agree with you that recovering a corrupted file at all costs is way better than "nope, can't open it for you", don't get me wrong.
Just keep in mind that IrfanView is not chopped liver - it's Irfan's lifetime achievement, and he may well have a few unique tricks all his own up his sleeve. In some parts of the software world a bright individual can still shine, even amongst the giants.
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2. Start-up times are very long, like 3 or 4 minutes. This also happens every time.
3. Now after a fresh snow leopard install it doesn't even start up completely, as it stays with the blue background and I can hear the music of the introductory animation.
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--Bob

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I'm having the same problem:
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- The mouse continues to work and the system remains otherwise responsive.
- Keyboard eventually comes back.
- These problems are new since leopard
I wanted to add another observation:
My "delete" key continues to work while the rest of the keyboard is unresponsive. Anyone else notice this?
A couple of questions:
1) Does anyone think that this problem happens more when they are using PowerPC vs Universal(Intel) programs? It is hard with an intermittent problem, but I think this might be the case for me.
2) Do most folks who are experiencing this problem have Parallels or VMWare installed?
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Leopard Sleep Freeze

If your computer freezes after going into sleep mode... I found if you delete all the WIDGETS this will take care of the problem... Most widgets are for 10.4 and not working on Leopard.
Hope this helps the many of you having problems.

I just wanted to clarify your advice. Do you mean to remove your widgets from the Dashboard, thereby making them inactive? Or do you mean delete your widgets from your computer completely?
While I'm at it, when my computer freezes coming back from sleep, it will often freeze up after the reset leading to a kernel panic that describes a problem with the ATA device. I recently upgraded my start-up drive, and I'm wondering if this problem is 1)purely Leopard-related 2)purely new HD-related or 3)a combination of both. I did (yesterday) reset my PRAM . . . which I should have probably done as soon as I removed and replaced my start-up drive.
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I just removed the widgets to make them inactive... I had read in another discussion group, that some widgets, like weather widget can cause the system to not wake up after going to sleep... This is what was happening to me after I installed Leopard... I've had issues with an older USB card reader that was not mac friendly... I replaced it with a mac card reader... Also Parallels was a pain in the butt, so I'm now using Leopard Boot Camp with VIsta... That was working great until I downloaded CA Security for windows... Then all **** broke loose so I deleted CA Security and all is running fine. So far as a six month new user of imac and apple products, I find most of my problems are related to third party issues... Except for Apple Aperture which is an awful, outdated and over expensive piece of software.

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Hello,
My wife's black MacBook was having some crazy issues I have never seen before. The finder was incredibly slow, the corners of every single window you opened were black (just the tips of the corners) and it would take around 3-5 minutes to open even a folder, then an additional minute to load any items within.
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Have you run the +Apple Hardware Test?+
If it's an Intel processor: [Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509].
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My Snow leopard machine hangs during startup at the screen with the Grey Apple logo. It appears there is a SW issue with my OS X boot partition. Here are facts I have learned:
The computer boots fine if I hold option at startup and select my boot camp partition
The compute boots fine if I attach an external HD with OS X 10.6
Running a disk repair from the external HD, I see the following two issues that are repaired. Also, note the last line about boot partitions
After this disk repair, the disk will still not boot, it hangs at the Grey Apple logo.
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I then tried 10.6.5 which says the disk is not properly configured to accepted the installation:
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Thu Jan 3 19:44:25 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A7BED): Kernel trap at 0x00000000, type 14=page fault, registers:
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