Since Snow Leopard Aperture 3 upgrades - multiple problems have all but disabled my computer
I recently posted an Aperture and Apple TV question and it was suggested to me that because I'm having the plethora of serious problems that I needed to bring up the other issues here to seek advice.
The following problems have been going on for many months and I've been using my computer less and less. I have posted about and followed most of these problems before but I'm going to revive my efforts to figure out how to get my computer working again because the situtaion is simply heartbreaking to me and unbearable to ignore. Now Aperture is crashing within seconds of opening it so I have no access to all my photographs and no ability to pursue my photograhy hobby any further.
First, a description of my set up. I have an early Mac Pro (Nov '06) with only 2 GB of RAM. It's a Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 3 GHz, with a ATI Radeon X1900 XT graphics card. I have a 500 GB primary drive where all my applications live and about 300 GB of free space there. My photo library is about 70,000 photos taking up 286 GB. I have all my photos residing on my second 1 TB internal HD with about 300 GB still free.
No matter what I'm working in, I have flashing artifacts all over my monitor. They flash several times a minute and are very distracting. Usually it's just random flickering about my desktop but it can also grab some part of my desktop or app I'm working in and make an odd, distorted area that hangs for a while. Sometimes the artifacts become quite bizarre. For instance, when my cursor is about to quit functioning (no click) sometimes it will form a track line of mulitiple colors as I drag it across the screen. I'd love to take a screenshot but when this happens I'm not able to click on anything and end up having to do a hard shut down with my power button.
I have horizontal lines that are sometimes confined to the browser screen but also go clear across my monitor. They are confined to my Apple Display and do not show up on the TV I have hooked up as a mirror monitor.
Crashes and instability have become the norm. I hold my breath on restarts hoping my cursor will click and my keyboard will work. I cannot estimate the times I've not been able to fill out a crash report or that I've typed a few short sentences and it's frozen before I can hit send.
The cursor is completely frozen in place only periodically. What is more common is that I can move it all around but can't select a thing. When that happens the keyboard is dead too. An action that tends to freeze the screen is when I scroll down within the first minute of my desktop appearing after restart and I get to the dock to pop up. At that second I'm often dead in the water. I can't click a thing.
The fans do tend to rev up when it's going to have the freeze up or dead cursor issues. I followed some advice to upload smcFanControl but I think I did something wrong. I can't select anything with it and it's done no good at all.
A recent annoying development is a half inch black band goes across the top and bottom of my monitor, robbing me of desktop real estate.
ALL of these annoyances with flashing, black bands and crashing disappear in Safe Boot, but that mode does not let me work in Aperture.
There have been a few more issues that I can't think of right now but these are the everyday problems. If anyone has the solution to these horrible disruptions, I will be eternally grateful.
I won't be able to try the Apple Hardware test right away because I don't have time to disconnect everything to run the test. I might also get into my computer to check for dust on the graphics card if I can find good instructions on removing it. While prowling the other topics from people having similar problems I came across this link:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/Graphics/radeon_X1900XT/X1900XT_dust_buildup.html#sto rytop
Having a unit that looks that bad is a definite possibility for me as I have cats and dogs.
I'm confused about your logic board comment. Why did you say that's a good lifespan for a portable when I'm discussing my Mac Pro? Is my logic board listed in "About this Mac"? If so, where? My hard drive accidently got fried by a tech just before my APP ran out and I know quite a few things got replaced but I can't remember exactly what. I'm wondering if that is newer that the stock logic board that came with the computer.
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Here is the console log (relevant info):
10/18/09 4:57:33 PM kernel System Sleep
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10/18/09 4:57:48 PM kernel System Wake
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Does anyone have any idea? While on, the keyboard never disconnects - i.e. I don't have any other issues with BT or the keyboard (this is the 2nd I tried).
Also, my apologies for double-posting this earlier in a different forum; cheers!
Thanks,
DanHi,
and thanks for posting that.
That's too bad. I am probably going to log off if needed, rather than going wired, but I can't believe that this might be more prevalent than just me and there is no 'fix'...
Anyone ?!
Thanks as always,
Dan -
My macbook came with snow leopard, if I upgrade to Lion will I be able to use my restore disks in the future and if I do use my disks that brings me back to snow leopard, Will itunes remember I purchased Lion or will I have to purchase a second time ?
At this point, you can no longer download Lion (10.7) from the App Store, only Mountain Lion (10.8) - make sure all your applications are fully compatible if you decide to upgrade.
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Matt -
I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks OS X, and lost all of my "on my mac" mail boxes. How do I restore them?
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. Thanks again for your help! -
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1. Go to the Apple menu in the upper left corner of your screen. It's located on the menu bar.
2. Click on it, and from that menu, go to About This Mac.
3. A window will pop up that will say Mac OS X Version ________.
4. If the version number is 10.6 or 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, then you are okay to drag the install icon to the trash. If the version number is anything with a 10.5, then DON'T delete the Install icon yet.
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