Ok, so it's not the RAM, and the cable seems fine after a simple visual inspection.
I'll clone to the HDD and see if that helps. Also, does the attached image help any diagnosis? You'll see that when it loads apple.com, it struggles to show all the graphics. A minute or so after this screenshot, the Mac became unresponsive... the cursor would move, but nothing would respond.... AP On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 10:48:05 PM UTC+1, mac98aop wrote: > > Dear all > > A while back my wife's Macbook HDD failed, and many of you pitched in > helpfully. I duly bought a new one, and installed it using a clone of mine > to get her up and running asap. It worked well, thanks again. But.... > > That put her on Mavericks, and for speed she was keen to have Snow Leopard > once more. So, tonight I erased the HDD, and rebooted with the original > Snow Leopard install DVD. All seemed to go fine, but it seems the install > is corrupted. It looks fine, but once you're logged in, after a few minutes > it won't load a web page, or a window or app you've asked it to. The pizza > wheel spins ad infinitum, and you can click and select other objects, but > nothing works. The only option is to long hold on the power button to force > a shutdown. > > I've rebooted from the DVD, and run Disk Utility > Repair Disk and Repair > Permissions. All seems fine. Except it isn't. It's unusable :( > > Now, in having chatted to my wife through the frustration, she's confirmed > that with Mavericks installed, it wasn't simply slow, but at times Safari > and system requests were occasionally unresponsive. The OS never froze > though, and she could simply select Restart from the Apple Menu to get up > and running again. That's no longer possible. > > Any thoughts? > > Do I clone Mavericks again and see if it works? > Could it be something other than the HDD that's causing the problem and > for some reason it plays a little better with Mavericks? > > Would really value any help. It's been such a great workhorse, but can't > think it's for the knackers yard yet! > > Adam > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
