Weirdest problem I've ever had
Here's a mystery for you. It's beyond me on what is going on with my computer.
When I start my computer up in my office it does something weird. Everything loads up normally except for a couple of items on the rightside in the menu bar (wireless network and language icons). If I roll my mouse over any of the items that have loaded in the top right part of the menubar, for example the volume icon, I get a spinning beach ball which goes away if I move the mouse away. It appears as if the system is still thinking or working on loading up the menu bar items. The Apple and other menu options on the left work okay.
During this time, if I open anything to do with system preferences the whole computer freezes and leaves me with spinning beach ball. This includes trying to use the items on the right side of the menu bar.
If I don't go into system prefs I can open applications and use them normally with the exception of anything needing an internet connection. Safari and Mail simply act as if they are not connected to the internet (btw I connect via built-in Airport Card).
If I wait about a half hour. The spinning ball goes away and the final menu tools load up including the Airport one which opens with Airport turned on. However, the airport card isn't connected to any networks and there are no networks available in the drop down list when there should be at least four or five (I'm in a neighborhood where just about all my neighbors have wireless hubs).
Now here is the rub. This only happens if I boot up my computer or wake it up from sleep in my office. So right now I have to go to the dining room (20 or 30 feet away) turn on my computer. Wait till it fully boots up than walk it to my office. Then everything works normally.
I thought it would go away if I did a clean install of the system software, but it still does it. It's as if my office is at a nexus where all the wireless hub signals confuse it. Well okay, that's a stretch since all the signals are available in the dining room too.
I'm just dumbfounded. Anyone have an idea? Possible microwave or electromagnetic waves causing it? Aliens? Ghosts?
Thanks ahead of time.
Jason
Jason,
Can't help you, but let me know if you get an answer.
My e-mac is freezing up in a similar manner.
Sometimes the windows freeze in the middle of a zoom.
Sometimes i get the spinning beachball and sometimes the beachball freezes.
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Thanks.
P.S. I haven't have the patience to wait and see if the beachball stops spinning.
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