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I am a tech person at a school and support several of our faculty and staff. I have a faculty member that has a Powerbook Aluminum (15") running OS X.3.9, 1.5 GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, and Office 11.2.
He normally has no problems with any part of his PowerBook, other than an occasional Kernal Panic (which is expected from time to time). But, when he plugs his computer into a projector to display PowerPoint for his students, it freezes. He thought it froze while on the same slide for 15 to 20 minutes; but just the other day, he found it froze after three minutes. To stop the freeze, he held the power button for five seconds to shut it down and rebooted his system. After getting everything running again, he found PowerPoint froze again after a few minutes.
He states PowerPoint doesn't freeze at all when not connected to a projector. He can work on it at home, leave his laptop running as he takes an hour for supper with his family, then come back to work on his presentation some more.
I'm curious on what might be causing this. Is there a driver that needs reinstalling? Is there a problem with his video card? Any suggestions on what to try would be helpful.
Thank you,
Brad
G5 Tower (Dual 1.8 GHz), Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Will this effect the general running of the computer? I'm wondering if the speed of operation will be changed. Can I purchase an update to what I have or am I starting over again?

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On some 12-inch PowerBooks, this may happen if your AirPort Extreme card is slightly out of place and you touch the case in the wrong area. Reseating the card often fixes this issue; this problem was previously discussed in another thread which archived off long ago.
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Idvd08 freezes when rendering chapters

I have a brand new MacBook Pro with Leopard installed and IDVD 08. I have made a long movie in IMovie which has a number of chapters. I created the DVD in iDVD 08 a few weeks before Chrstmas, but when I went to burn the DVD, it kept freezing after a while whilst rendering chapter menus.
I understand this is a known issue between iDVD08 and the Leopard operating system. Does anyone know if this issue has now been resolved or, if not, what is the ETA for a fix?
Many thanks
Joe McCrea

Hello All,
I've been struggling all week-end on a project my son called me in for rescue. I've experienced too that total freeze of my brand new MBP (15"). To make things short: The problem is not solved yet, but I've isolated several facts.
First, it's started with a problem my son had with his school project on a PB-G4 and iDVD fron 08'. It choked because we had imported some 30fps elements into a 25fps project. It choked on muxing those heterogenous elements, even tough "properly" imported by iDVD.
Second. I copied his project to my MBP to benefit from the processing speed increase. On that same project, I didn't reached the point to generating the movie and got the freeze when creating the assets.
I spare you all the events in between. But after clearing that 30fps vs 25fps conflict by regenerating all components in 25fps natively, I identified the exact moment of the crash.
That project uses the Revolution theme from Theme 7.0. I've successfully generated an image file using another Theme like the Concrete Theme from www.dvdthemepak.com
The freeze appears when iDVD comes on generating the first "Scene selection" menu screen from the project. It's kind of odd as this project has 8 chapters requiring an additional scene selection menu. I see the 2nd scene selection menu being processed Ok, and the Top menu too. All menus use the same additional content for the one drop zone the Revolution theme has.
That "freezing" is very odd to me. I'm a unix geek. A system never freezes under Unix. At most, one process can go wild and hog all CPU and never relinquish a cycle before being terminated by kernel. In the case of MacOSX, the freeze is only apparent: the window manager process gets hosed. It's very probable that you can ssh to it from another unix system and shut it down being root. In this freeze. The dual cores of the Intel chips gives more chances accessing the shell level before the machine is brought to a stand still. Here: no CPU overheating. Just a plain solid freeze. I've not tracked any kernel event letting me know of a kernel issue. This is plain odd to me. I'm learning new stuff here.
Back to the issue. I was even fearing at one moment it was disliking the accentuated characters we've used in the menu texts. I eliminated this option too be removing all accents from the vowels.
Needless to say that this Project compiled without a glitch on the PowerBook. At least, we were able to finish that assignment.
Now, my MBP is still not fixed. Gotta call AppleCare for that.
Some additional clues: I got this MBP with iLife loaded in. It was missing the Old Themes I like, plus www.dvdthemepak.com themes. iDVD is smart and proposes you to load those Old Themes from the MacOSX Install disk 2 .... but this fails !!!! As I'm a bit smart I gave a try popping in the iLife 08' DVD and it allowed me to install the missing Old Themes. Now something went wrong because iDVD 7 doesn't behave like iDVD 6 and splits the lastest Themes away from the oldest and custom Themes by copying them to the user's Library folder. It keeps under the /Library only the latests themes.
I manually copied from another Mac the www.dvdthemepak.com themes and this was my mistake. iDVD went totally haywire not even recognising its installed themes, displaying a "Broken Theme" image in a hugly kiddy art crayon chalked letters. Anyways: stand still.
I decided to trash both Themes directory (user and system), pop-in the iLife DVD and reinstall iDVD. I was NOT given the choice to re-install iDVD ! So, I trashed iDVD app and tried again installing iDVD through the iLife DVD. Well, not much luck: The installer doesn't let me install iDVD but only the additional old themes. I went on with this option. "Miracle!" iDVD app was installed, with the additional themes ... but NOT the main themes (5, 6 and 7) Arrrrgh ! I'm choking.
So, I copied from another Mac with iLife 08' the 5, 6 and 7 Theme. And it worked.
Well, not that god as now iDVD freezes with the Revolution 7 theme. It may not be at all linked to all the problems I got updating iDVD from the default instal of a new MBP. At least, by reading this, you people are aware that you can only get the Old Themes from an Web install, or the iLife DVD. But NOT from the supplied DVDs.
I would need to try compiling this project with another Theme from the Theme gallery. That would identify that Themes 7 as being part of the problem (as www.dvdthemepak.com are operational).
Also, I'm eager to learn of a SAFE procedure to reinstall iDVD.
Last: I've not been able to do a "repair permissions" yet on this machine as I don't have a Leopard DVD. The Install disks that come with the MBP are not bootable. There is a different procedure that requires a specific set of actions in "to reinstall Leopard" in order to boot on those DVD. I'm scared this new procedure really reinstall Leopard, which will be a catastrophe of biblical proportions to me!
Very last. I still need to dig in the archived system logs to see if iDVD reported something before the freeze.
Hoping this help. I promise I'll post updates here when available.

Computer "freezes" when left on for several hours.

I have had my MacBook Pro since late February. It seems to "freeze" when I leave it on for prolonged periods of time (several hours) without using it. By "freeze" I mean when the display wakes up, the trackpad will allow me to move around the screen, but not click on anything. Occasionally, I will get the colored spinning wheel when I click on one thing, but it never allows me to access any program or even to shut down the computer normally with the trackpad. I am forced to use the power button for a forced shutdown. It then restarts normally.
The computer has not been asleep, and has been attached to the power outlet the entire time. This is also not a kernel panic. (I have witnessed those with my previous computer.)
Prior to this, I owned a 12in Powerbook for nearly 5 years. It never grew unresponsive like this. Is this a common problem with the MacBook Pros, or is there something wrong with my unit?
Please let me know if you would like more information about my computer.

mavenue, you should really post this as a separate topic as the probability is that your problem is not the same.
(A) after such a forced restart have you done anything to check system integrity?
(B) are you saying that Safari is set to open at startup/login?
(C) which version of Safari are you using?
(D) is Safari set to open on a blank page or access a website?
(E) is the computer attached to a network at the time or not?
(F) have you examined the logs in Console (if not, have a look and post them in discussions.
Have a look at those points and start another thread with some of the information suggested above (including the log).

Computer freezes when battery installed

A few weeks ago, my laptop started freezing at various times during usage. After doing a little trial and error, i discovered that it only freezes when the battery is in. I tried a friend's battery to see if it was my battery that was screwed up but it did it with any battery i put in there. The only way i can use the computer is if i run it on the power adaptor without the battery. I can't remember anything that i could have done that would suddenly cause this problem. I'm debating wether or not to send it in. Thanks to whomever can offer any help.
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My Powerbook does the same exact thing. I decided to buy a brand new battery and I am still having the same problem. It's pretty frustrating I must say. Have you figured out what the problem is yet?
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IMac 10.6.2 freeze when using iSight

Hello
i have Problems - after i upgrade to 10.6.0 from 10.5... everything was ok .
Then i installed 10.6.1 - still not big problems sometimes hang up - only power off helped .
Since i use 10.6.2 - System freeze when using iSight , ini Chat or Skype after 20 sec.
I tried to go back to 10.6.1 - freeze after 20min .
With 10.6.0 so far no freeze .
I need help .

TnT Sweden wrote:
Hello , once again
i tried these steps with reset , .... did not work .
Also in another account .
So i think i will try to make a clean Installation .
As i am "new" into Mac - what will be the best way .
I had Leopard from the beginning - now bought Snow Leopard .I have Time Capsule for Backup.
My questions - with what System CD i should start to make the clean install ?
10.5 or 10.6 ?
And How ?
What Data will be lost - or is all backup with Time Machine like Photos ,......
Thanks in advance -
If you follow your plan, you will learn a lot and not be nearly so "new" to Mac. Here are my responses to your latest questions/statements:
So i think i will try to make a clean Installation .
In our jargon, a "clean" install means that you will erase your disk and individually reinstall your system and applications, and then restore your data files. This method is very thorough and will give you a pristine system, but it requires considerably more of your time and effort than other methods that may correct your problems.
Easier alternatives are available for your consideration. Before you undertake a system reinstall, read the rest of this post and then study this document and the links in the document that are applicable to your problem and plans:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1388
If you decide to reinstall your system, carefully consider your installation options:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1545 (also applies to OS 10.6)
As i am "new" into Mac - what will be the best way .
"Best" can mean different things to different people. For example:
• The method explained in the User Guide (manual) that came with your Mac is the easiest way.
• The "Erase and Install" option from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1545 is quicker to reinstall, but requires more work for apps and data after the OS is installed.
• Archive and Install with the "Preserve user and network settings" option eliminates the need for reinstalling apps and reconfiguring network and other user settings by "preserving" these things during the OS reinstall. Unfortunately, it sometimes also preserves the problem that is causing your difficulty.
• Secure erase before installing OS assures that NOTHING unwanted remains on your disk to cause problems after the reinstall. One pass of writing Zeros is sufficient for your purpose. Note that secure erase will take hours, depending on the size of your disk. The help article below applies to your 10.5&6 as well as the 10.4 it states,:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1011.html
Perhaps easiest of all (as least for Time Machine users) is to use your Mac's Leopard Install DVD and your Time Machine backup to "Restore" your system to a configuration dated BEFORE you did the update that has caused your problems. This method will get you working quickly, but it will not help you use Snow Leopard. If you have not already figured out how to do this "Restore," see:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
The section entitled " Using Disk Utility" will help you use your Time Machine backup to take your entire system back to when Leopard was working. After it works again, either stay with Leopard, or uninstall or update whatever software is causing your Snow Leopard conflict before again updating to Snow Leopard.
My questions - with what System CD i should start to make the clean install ? 10.5 or 10.6 ?
Use Leopard Install CD if you want to backup to Leopard.
Only use Snow Leopard if you want to try a fresh install of SL to see if you can get it working.
And How ?
Depending on your needs and whether you bought your Mac and SL update locally, and especially if your time is valuable to you, the best way may be to contact your retailer for an appointment so he can either help you or fix your problem for you. If you can use this as a training exercise, you will find it easier to do than to read and write about, and you can ask questions during the process. If you retailer does not consider proper installation of the SL software you bought from him to be part of his service, and if he offers "One to One", you may find it well worth your time and its cost:
http://www.apple.com/retail/onetoone/
If you have plenty of time, or if you merely like doing things for yourself, follow the instructions for the Disk you are using (or the instructions in the links I cite above if you want to try one of those methods.) Remember, you can try an easy/quick way first in case it works without all the manual effort on your part. If that fails to correct your problem, you are only out your time. You can try the next easiest way, and keep trying increasingly complex methods until you find the one that works for you.
What Data will be lost - or is all backup with Time Machine like Photos ,......
This answer varies depending on which method you use to restore your system or reinstall your OS:
• NOTHING IS LOST when you Archive & Install
(if you "preserve user and network settings" before installing)
• EVERYTHING IS LOST when you secure erase.
• Other methods may keep data but lose application or user configuration settings.
(1) I use SL on two Macs and it work GREAT on both. I WANT to use SL because I like it MUCH better than Leopard.&ensp:You did not ask this, but here is how I would proceed to get SL working:
♦ Unless you already have it, I would make another, separate, backup of all important data in addition to the one you already have in Time Machine. One backup is not enough for me. In addition to your music, photos, and other data files, consider items like those listed here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2980
♦ THEN, I would securely erase the startup disk and follow the instructions that came with the SL DVD to install SL.
♦ Immediately after the restart that completes the install, I would use Mac's Disk Utility to repair permissions.
♦ Then configure your internet connection, and download and install the Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update (Combo):
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959
♦ Immediately after the restart that completes the Combo Update, repair permissions again.
♦ Once you have reinstalled SL, use  > Software Update... to update any other Apple software as needed. I repair permissions before and after any installer than asks me to enter my Administrator Password.
♦ Now you can test your iMac using http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 to verify that the problem is resolved. If your problem persists at this point, see your Apple Authorized Service Provider for professional help.
♦ You can restore your data files either now or after reinstalling third-party items.
♦ Now, you can reinstall necessary third-party software. Install only one item at a time and test thoroughly before adding another so you can tell if one of them is causing a problem.
(2) If you would rather retreat to Leopard and not bother trying to fix SL on your Mac, the easiest fix will be to restore your Leopard system from Time Machine. You can then restore any data newer than your last working Leopard system from your backups.
EZ Jim
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