Weird glitches since the last Leopard upgrade to 10.5.5
Since I upgraded to 10.5.5 on my mac pro about a week and a half ago, I've been experiencing some weird glitches. Here's a list...if you have any ideas I'm open to suggestions.
- computer not always waking from sleep mode (have to shut down manually and reboot)
- one of my games, Soldier of Fortune II Double Helix with Gold Patch crashes after every change to a new map - it's not related to the server I'm connecting to because I play on multiple servers and it does them in all, it just started doing this since the upgrade...I even reinstalled my game
- another game I played last night - Unreal Tournament 2004, I played on a local LAN with my husband and my video froze...my screen went completely black although for a few seconds I could still heard the sounds of the game and then completely black and no sound, I had to manually shut down my system to get out of it
- tonight, as I was logged into msn messenger chatting, I noticed that when I had the program maximized (it nests on the right hand side of my monitor) that all of my files on the desktop, including my mounted disks looked like they had scooted over to the left...so I minimized it and then maximized it again and the files and mounted disks were underneath the window as they should be
As I sit and describe these, it's obvious to me that all of these instances are video related somehow, or appear to be. If anyone knows specifically if there was a video update of some kind in the 10.5.5 update, that might explain it. The only other thing I can think of that might be attributing to this is that I have enabled time machine to do backups. That is the only other thing that is different than before aside from the update to 10.5.5. Actually, I just looked at my settings for time machine and I turned it off the other day. Thanks Jen
Absolutely. Let me just clarify here. I love my mac and have never been more satisfied with a product the way I have been with my macs (iMac G5 & Mac Pro). The reason I made the investment in 2005 was because of Windows crashing on me on almost a weekly basis, with me finally ending up loosing very important data. There is no contest - to me - between the stability of the Mac OS versus Windows. I could never see myself going back to Windows. I am very impressed with the support I receive through Apple Care and overall find it comprehensive. With that said, I would have to say that with both my G5 and my Mac Pro, both computers have ended up having bad hard drives and had to be replaced. Now, after getting my computer back, I am more inclined to believe that 99% of my problems had to do with a bad hard drive than anything else. I cannot believe how quiet my machine is now versus when I took it in. Perhaps the upgrade to 10.5.5. pushed it in limits that finally revealed it's problems, who knows. I personally will not be rolling back to an earlier version at this point because so far all of the problems I was experiencing are gone. Thanks to all of you for a very enlightening discussion. Thanks Jen
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