Done that Daniel. I'm wondering if a special Finder background image app I have may have caused problems. It's a moving video of various scenes. I also forgot to unplug a USB backup drive the first time.
Is it okay to run the updated in safe boot mode to stop any background oddities interfering? T Sent from my iPhone On 13/11/2010, at 3:33 PM, Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tim > > I'd reinstall the OSX 10.6.5 update from the dmg file just to play it safe. > Shouldn't hurt it, but may fix anything that wasn't installed 100% the first > time. > > Kind Regards > Daniel > > > On 13/11/10 3:12 PM, "Tim Law" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> All, >> >> Instead of relying on Software Update to upgrade to 10.6.5 on my Mac Mini as >> I >> normally do, I thought I'd try the combo update route promoted here and >> downloaded the 10.6.5 combo update file which ran to a 1Gb file. >> >> i diligently repaired permissions, twice, and went ahead with confidence, >> having never had any problems with an upgrade. >> >> Once I checked the upgrade was running smoothly I went away only to be >> alerted >> to 'the computers having a spaz attack' by an alert family member. >> >> The screen was flashing in a way I'd never seen it before. Only the top of >> the >> screen was visible, and only momentarily in between flashes. I have uploaded >> a >> short movie (5mb) of the fault to: >> http://gallery.me.com/peoplehelp/100247 >> I've no idea why the image is upside down on Gallery. That's odd!! >> >> The only way I could control the Mac Mini was to hold down the power button >> until it turned off. No keyboard shortcuts would make a difference >> >> On restart the finder came back as expected. >> But once the screen went to sleep, it wouldn't wake, so another hard restart >> was needed. >> >> I checked under "about this Mac" and it is indicating I am now running 10.6.5 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
