Weird Freezing Issues... with Screeching Noise!

It said to post here if it didn't fit any other categories. There was not a Post Topic button on the main page so I apologize if this is the wrong place. I have an Indigo iMac, bought from ebay, running 10.3.9 and 9.2.2. It arrived yesterday and I setup my admin account with no problem. But very, very randomly, it just freezes up. About half the time, when you hit the restart button the screen goes dark and there's a loud screeching noise while the power button flashes slowly. After which you have to hold in the power button to shut it off. turn it back on and it seems to run fine for awhile but then it'll freeze. Every now and then I get lucky and the restart button works normally.
Other issues that may be part of the same problem: I've received the "You need to restart your computer" warning in 4 languages about 3 times. when trying to Force Quit a System 9 Application it did a restart instead. LOL Icons in the dock will appear corrupted with see thru areas in them right before a freeze. I cannot not run Disk Utility to check for problems; it freezes immediately.
Other Information: I haven't had time to load most of my programs, I have no special fonts loaded yet (I'm a graphic designer), I'm using Verizon DSL for internet (but problems were present well before I loaded that up).
In short, I have no idea what's doing this. It's like nothing I've ever encountered. The symptoms are so random that it's hard to tell the cause. But one thing is guarateed. It will freeze up sometime during use. Every time. The computer is lightning fast for it's age, and when it works, it works great, so I don't want to return it. I just want to fix whatever the bug is. Any help is greatly appreciated. Let me know if you need other information I may not have thought to give.

Did you check out the RAM? Screeching noises are not good, you might want to run the hardware test and also see if the HD is in good shape. In the end, you might be better off returning it and getting another one, there are lots out there.
You can probably get a more informed reply if you post to http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=888, which covers the CRT iMacs.
Good luck,
Miriam

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Freezing issues with MSI 970A-G43 and AMD FX 8320

Hey all,
I bought my brother a new system a few days ago, but he has had serious issues with the machine crashing ever since.
The machine has had a fresh installation of Windows 7, it has all the latest drivers for both motherboard, sound, chipset and video card (Latest VGA driver tested as well as the latest Beta version)
I thought the problem might be with the VGA card, as the computer would just shut off during 3d Gaming, but it also seems to happen when surfing the internet or doing normal "2d" activities
What happens is the computer will just seemingly shut off, the LED lights on the front of the case, around the dials, start blinking and the only way to get it back up again, is to turn if off at the power supply unit and then turn it back on again.
I'll paste in what my brother sent me (As I live in the UK and can't see the machine crashing myself), he said:
I dunno what the issue is but, last night the comp just shut off in middle of game play on 3 different games, and the lights were flashing, I had to turn complete power off to the power box and back on to restart comp, I kept checking all my temps with speccy and speed fan and nothing seemed high at all, also when it shuts off and I re start it, a lot of my desktop icons move around to different spots,
Update: crashed a few times on me, once playing euro, once just browsing Internet 5 min after the first one, changed out ram just for shots and giggles and ran euro on ultra for about 5 min and crashed. I dl a gpu monitor gadget, was accurate on temp but said the gpu was 0% but with just Internet would randomly jump to 99% or 40% then back to 0 and would stay and eventually crash
Spec is:
AMD FX-8320 3.5GHZ EIGHT CORE
500GB SATA III 6GB/S 7200RPM 16MB
COOLERMASTER SEIDON 120M WATER COOLER
4Gb DDR3 / 1600 MHZ MEMORY
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CORSAIR 500 WATTS CX500 V2 80 PLUS POWER SUPPLY
ASUS XONAR DG 5.1 CHANNELS PCI XONAR DG SOUND CARD
AMD RADEON 7750 2GB PCI-E
There was a concern I did have when I did search earlier, via a thread on Tomshardware in which a similiar board had issues with the FX8350's wattage going above the stated 125 watts and causing the board to freeze.
It's a different board/chip, but I wonder if the wattage of the CPU goes above 125W and causes problems on the board? Hmm
I feel really guilty right now, because I bought this for him as a present, it was $700ish plus shipping etc and it's been nothing but problems ever since.
I'm going to see what version of Bios he's running when he gets out of bed, but the Live Update software said there were no updates, but I'll have him check manually.
Another issue I noted, was I sent him some ram before the PC arrived, which was:
XMS3 — 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1333C9)
He originally put that ram in with the existing 4gb of ram, so I thought it "Might" be a conflict, due to them having a different Mhz value
So I had him remove the 4gb stick that came with the PC
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So he removed that ram and put back the original 4gb stick and the bios worked
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I hope this doesn't count as necro-ing a thread (last post was in October), but it's the one closest to my situation.
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AMD FX-6300 cpu
ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics card
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16x r/rw DVD burner
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Nothing.
I then spent the next two hours rechecking everything, even unplugging everything and putting it back together. Still nothing. The best I could get was a flicker of the tower light and the fans doing a quarter turn before ceasing movement. The red LED on the front of the SD card reader stayed on the entire time, though, so I guess it was getting at least a trickle of power. I also removed everything but the PSU, motherboard, CPU, and one stick of RAM. Still no power. I think the new PSU may have been open box, so I'm returning it today for a different one, and even bumping it up to 850W.
I'm not sure that will solve my original issue though, so I'll be looking for a heatsink to put on the VRMS as mentioned. Just thought I'd get this down in a relevant thread in case anyone had other thoughts on what could be going on.

Mac Pro Screen Freezing Issue with NVIDIA 8800 GT too

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1358062&tstart=30
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1365277&tstart=0
I opened this new thread to show, that this problems occurs not only for the ATI card but for the NVIDIA 8800 card, too.
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In total, 2 screen freezes showed on my computer. The first one during working with the computer. The second one during booting into MacOS X. The screen freeze occured during the boot phase with the grey screen and the spinning wheel.
My configuration:
MacPro 2.8, Dual Quad Core
6 GB RAM
3 harddisks, 1 standard from Apple, 2 Samsung with 750GB
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Formac 20" Monitor
Perhaps others have this problem, too? Than we should emphasize, that this is not an ATI related problem.

I've actually been having the freezing issue for a while now but I didn't have the know-how to troubleshoot it (PC tech trying to support the only Mac lab in the building).
MacPro will freeze randomly (no trend in time, system strain, or open programs). The mouse will operate but will not interact with anything.
Specs:
MacPro - Model 1,1
Dual Core Xeon 2.66
2gb RAM
nVidia GeForce 7300 GT
Mac OS 10.4.11
The machine always has 2 displays connected to it so the workaround that was discussed for the ATI 2600 doesn't apply. I had 1 display connected here in my shop and it froze for that as well.
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Freezing Issues with multiple new MS-7028 (v1.0B) Motherboards

I build several MSI motherboard based machines for clients every week.
I have noticed a major problem with the MS-7028 (v1.0B) Neo2 and Neo2 Platinum Motherboards (I've had the same issue with both now)
Things that cause the PC to freeze (mouse pointer freezes, nothing but a reboot or forced power off)
1. Autorun of MSI "Drivers & Utilities" CD (several versions of the CD have been tried, all of them do it 90% of the time)
Once it displays the "setup is launching, please wait" screen. Bang. It freezes.
2. Running MSI CoreCenter (again tried several versions, including the most recent, downloaded of msi's website)
Runs ok for a little while, but if left running while usually freeze the whole pc within minutes, if I play around in CoreCenter, it crashes even faster
3. Running MSI Live Update 3 (again several versions have been tried, including the most recent release from MSI's website)
Seems ok on the Neo2 Platinum M/B, but Neo2-FR version always froze system at "search VG card BIOS version"
I have had this exact problem on 4 of 4 "MS-7028 (v1.0B) 915P Neo2-FR" and 2 of 2 "MS-7028 (v1.0B) 915P Neo2-Platinum" M/B's
Any Ideas???
edit:
Each time this has happened the systems have been as follows.
MS-7028 (v1.0B) Neo2-FR or Neo2-Platinum M/B
Intel P4 3000Mhz Prescott CPU
1G Geil Ultra DDR2 533Mhz (2x 512Mb Kit)
MSI 6200 or 7300 PCI-E graphics
Seagate 80-160G SATA Hdd
LG 8x DVD-RW
450+W PSU's always with 18A or higher on the 12+
I’ve tried updating the Bios (which I do to all m/b's used for new systems)
I’ve tried all the latest drivers
This is always on a clean install of XP SP2
happens on XP Pro and XP Home
GRRRRRR HELP ME!!!!!!
is the MS-7028 (v1.0B) Motherboard just a big stinky lemon?

Quote from: Maesus on 10-May-06, 23:08:36
When you said clean install, does that mean you started off from a 100% blank HDD?
Correct
Quote from: Maesus on 10-May-06, 23:08:36
What version is your WinXP?
Windows XP Home SP2 (OEM) and Windows XP Pro SP2 (Oem) (happens on both)
Quote from: Maesus on 10-May-06, 23:08:36
Forget about the CD, Corecentre.. etc, get the drivers from the websites instead. and you don't have to get them from MSI websites. Intel INF drivers, get from intel.com. Display card get from nvidia.com.
I get around the problem by downloading the latest bios from msi's website
I install the latest inf from intel.com and the latest nvidia drivers from nvidia.com
and uninstall corecenter.
It would just be nice to be able to have corecenter running, and to know WHY this happens
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Hi rhonnywhoop, and welcome to the Dev Forum!
rhonnywhoop wrote:
I installed xcode on it, then removed it ... i tried to install xcode again.
There's no such thing as a weird issue with Xcode after an uninstall-install again cycle. Almost anything can go wrong and weird is the rule, not the exception. But yes, most of the strange problems show up after the installation (e.g., Xcode won't open, Xcode starts up but gcc always fails, Interface builder won't read nib files, etc., etc.). If I needed disk space for a video, I'd probably get another drive before I'd uninstall Xcode, but then I use Xcode all the time. Plus it's too late for that advice, so I'll try my best to point you in the right direction.
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\- Ray

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Well I get random freezing during games. Sometimes it freezes for 5-10 seconds then comes back, while other times it just freezes and the sound comes back but not the game.
I had this problem when I first upgraded.
K8N Neo2 plat
1gb corsair xms 3200
athlon 64 3500
aslo have:
420-30? antec tru power supply. I cant remember exact number.
6800gt ultra
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The "freezes" that are mentioned in other threads here appear to be due to a wide variety of different issues. Looking at the relevant posts I'd reckon about one in thirty of them at the most are due to an unusual issue with a few of the current MBPs. The other 29 are simply the regular array of things that cause freezes on any computer - out of date software, corrupted directory structures, the migration of already corrupted software from older computers, duplicate or corrupted fonts, badly written third party software, the occasional shonky HD or RAM module, etc etc etc.
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Hi,
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Nokia phones (Owned 1999-Now):
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from dvbobjects.PSI.PAT import *
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self.private_indicator = 0
^
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
Python 2.7
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./PSIP_MP2.py", line 7, in <module>
from dvbobjects.PSI.PAT import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dvbobjects/PSI/__init__.py", line 5
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xa9' in file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dvbobjects/PSI/__init__.py
on line 5, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
Never had this issue on Ubuntu or Fedora when I ran these. How can I import these modules without having to edit them? Or whatever other solution is available?
Thanks.

The errors you get are pretty self explanatory:
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
There's no way you can "fix" this without editing the file. Whoever wrote that code used both tabs and spaces for indentation, when he/she should have stuck with one or the other.
To fix it, you need to open the file in an editor and do a search/replace-all to replace all tabs with four spaces. Or you need to manually ensure that all indentations in the file are either four spaces or a single tab.
Last edited by rune0077 (2014-06-17 19:36:59)

Freezing Issues with Video Playlists - Windows 7 x64, iTunes 10

OK, I've been troubleshooting this problem to the best of my ability for weeks now. I can't come up with any solution, if anyone has any insight I would greatly appreciate it.
When playing videos from a playlist when one video ends but before another begins itunes becomes unresponsive. Sometimes a new video will start right away but it's rare, mostly an outright freeze, sometimes a new video will begin after about a minute or two of unresponsiveness.
This leads me to believe that when itunes is updating the library database files it is somehow getting stuck.
Interestingly enough, if I skip to the end of a video just to test if it will play the next in sequence it works perfectly. It only does this behavior when a video plays all the way through.
What I have tried already:
-Complete re-install of my entire OS after a clean format.
-Added all itunes files to the exception lists of my virus software (NOD32).
-Uninstalled virus software completely (same behavior without virus scanning software at all)
-Ran itunes as an administrator.
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-Ran itunes in compatability mode (Vista, XP)
-Completed all suggested items for "unexpected freezes" in the itunes help section.
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Running itunes 10.2.1.1
I briefly tried to downgrade to itunes 9, this seemed to clear up the problem. This is not a solution to me, I want the shared library features for my ipad.
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MSI K9AGM4-L motherboard
X2 64 4600+ AM2 processor + stock cooler
2 x 1gb Kingston 667 DDR2
PNY 7600GT PCI-E
Antec Solo Quiet case + 12cm fan
HEC 350W power
Tested with WinXP SP2 and Vista 64Bit
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- Processor temp never exceeds 47-49C when playing, so can't be it either.
- SATA harddrive temp is 47C according to "Everest".
The only thing that seems hot to touch is the NB heatsink (which is very small on this mobo, btw). So I made this test: I used an open case and put this huge 40cm fan next to it and played the game. It still started to freeze even though the heatsink wasn't very hot.
I also thought it's something with the drivers/software, so I tested everything with Vista 64bit + different drivers/software, didn't help. Also I tested one ATI card, same symptoms.
I also checked that the NB heatsink is properly seated.
SO.... any ideas what can cause this? Is it the NB afterall, that needs a better heatsink...or?
Any help to solve this will be welcomed, thanks in advance.

"But I've ran a P4 2.8 computer with that PSU for over a year without any issues at all."
That doesn't prove anything. Don't trust to cheap PSU's.
Also for your current build its too weak:
HEC-350LD-T. AC Input: 115/230V~, 50~60Hz, 8/5A, Fuse Rating: T8AL, 250V~.
DC Output: +3.3V~20A, +5V~33, +12V~15A. +5Vsb~2A, -5V~1A, -12V~1A. MAX OUTPUT POWER: 350W. +5V&3.3V Combined 180W.
Get a single rail PSU with high amperes on +12V +30A or above.
Add-on to read:
>>> PSU's---2 x 12v---The Dual Rail Myth <<<
>>> Is your problem caused by your PSU? <<<
Good PSU suggestions:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=112039.msg836246#msg836246
"with that PSU for over a year"
One more reason to be suspicion.

Powerbook freeze issue with video (help please)

I've had some difficulty with my Powerbook G4 freezing up while surfing the web. It happens usually when on a website with video, i.e., Youtube, etc. Also, occurs when watching downloaded programs on ITunes.
I ran the hardware test (everything came up clean), I ran the Disk Utility (everything came up clean), and I reinstalled my software bundle. Yet, I still encounter this problem with some frequency.
Just some background: I bought my Powerbook August 2005, I run Mac OS X 10.4.8. It has 1.5 GHz processor and 1GB DDR SDRAM.
Any assistance that you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
When you look at about this mac (click blue apple, about this mac), does it show 1GB of memory?
How much free disk space do you have? You want to keep approximately 10% of it unused, for systems usage.
If you bring up your Activity Monitor, on your hard drive in applications/utilities, under system memory, what does it say for page ins/outs? If out's are 10% or greater of ins, then you have a memory constraint for the programs you run. The counts reset when you reboot, so the size of the ins/outs isn't important, rather the relationship is.
Have you looked at your activity monitor when these symptoms come up, to see if anything is causing your CPU to go to 100% usage?
If it were me, considering what you've already done, and disk space and memory considerations were OK, I'd take these additional steps. If you don't have it already, download OnyX from http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
1) Under Unix Utilities, choose the plutil tab and run it for all accounts. This ensures your preference files aren't corrupt.
2) Run all cleaning tasks. Note the next reboot may take slightly longer than normal.
3) Run all maintenance tasks, including complete optimization.
Now if that doesn't fix it, I'd ask if you've noticed this problem since installing 10.4.8, and if so, did you install 10.4.8 via software update? If yes, reinstall using the combo update from http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1048comboupdateppc.html . Sometimes the software update function doesn't update everything correctly, creating odd problems.

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