Conatacting Bruce offline with (minus attachments here):
On Dec 15, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 15, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Bill Connelly wrote:
Another thing I just realized I have been doing ... plugging /
unplugging my Firewire webcam while the system is booted up.
Could that be a cause of my woes? Since Firewire is not hot-
swappable?
FW was designed from the beginning to be hot-swappable. ONe of the
first FW external drive reviews I read, the reviewers unplugged it
mid-write, thne plugged it back in...the system continued writing.
now that's hot ...
I saw one time in my system log, that an Ecamm plugin was somewhat
confused (I think)
This is possible
Maybe the cpu has just gone bad.
Unlikely, it would just freeze. Is the mouse pointer frozen when the
Finder freezes?
yes
Are you seeing a SPOD?
possibly
Can you command-tap to other running programs when this happens?
no
Send me your system and panic logs, (off list obviously!) so I can
take a look.
thx
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