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Ever had a complete freeze up? - Mac1337 - 08-12-2009
It is very, very rare but It just happened to me while I was visiting a site. The machine completely froze, like the old OS 9 days. No mouse, not even the force quite box would come up. I had to manually shut it down and restart. I was in the middle of typing a document and lost some work.
Re: Ever had a complete freeze up? - mattkime - 08-12-2009
I typically attribute those to a hardware.
Re: Ever had a complete freeze up? - Silencio - 08-13-2009
Yep, that is generally indicative of a hardware problem of some sort. Could be a failing hard drive, bad RAM, CPU overheating, bad logic board...
Re: Ever had a complete freeze up? - anonymouse1 - 08-13-2009
Well, there was this woman I dated once.....
Re: Ever had a complete freeze up? - AAA - 08-13-2009
stop
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Re: Ever had a complete freeze up? - Mac1337 - 08-13-2009
anonymouse1 wrote:
Well, there was this woman I dated once.....
Must have ben a hardware problem then.
Re: Ever had a complete freeze up? - bazookaman - 08-13-2009
mattkime wrote:
I typically attribute those to a hardware.
Microsoft has managed to do that to my MacPro several times over the years. Typing in Word than poof! Nothing. No keyboard or mouse. No nothing. Had to do a hard restart. These problems were on 3 different MacPros btw, so i don't think it was a hardware issue.
Re: Ever had a complete freeze up? - the_poochies - 08-13-2009
USB flash drives used to do that to my old G3 iBook and still do it to my old G4 PowerMac desktop.
Re: Ever had a complete freeze up? - decay - 08-13-2009
yes, it has happened to me on occasion. sucks.