Random crashes on the Mac Intel

Question

I seem to be suffering quite a few random crashes on my newish Quad 3gz Intel Mac: certainly many more than on my Quad G5. There seems to be no pattern to it all, and it's both baffling and irritating. Anyone any ideas, please? Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you run maintenance routines yet? These are regularly scheduled for
around 2am
it's 3AM.. (i know cos I've been up then and heard the disk drive start doing its business..)
to the OP: when you say random crashes, do you mean truly random.. happening at different times when doing all sorts of different things? or are there specific things you do that always or almost always guarantee a crash?
I had some trouble with instant crashes on trying to hit bounce, or open the audio hardware prefs pane. but it was isolated to one logic song only, of course it was a bit project with a deadline, but that sure isn't surprising.
anyway, if you narrow it down to what you do that always gives you crashes people can give more pointed advice.
in my case, I think the song in question I was working on got corrupted, or possibly it was due to the combination of plug ins I had open for that song, including a demo version of DUY tape. every other song I've worked on since has not had the problem. but I can imagine that if my autoload song itself became corrupted, then every song I start from that basis would inherit the same problem. perhaps you could try trashing your autoload and creating a new one.