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Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / June 2007system problems?
i know this isn't the proper place to ask this but i'm going to ask anyway. this latest server (10.4.10) update brought it back into focus so i thought i may as well ask. i'll give my system specs and test results below. when i reboot after installing something or somehow corrupting or changing the prebinding information (installing system updates) or resetting the NVRAM (option-command-o-f while rebooting and typing what apple told me "reset-NVRAM" and "reset-ALL") or resetting the parameter ram (option-command-r-p while booting), it takes 2 reboots to get the computer running smoothly again. after the first reboot, it doesn't recognize the dvd eject button and when rebooting, the dialog box is centered on the top left pixel of the screen allowing me to only see the blue "reboot" button. several other odd things happen if this reboot is left to run and all of them are too odd to mention or remember. after i reboot the second time, everything is running flawlessly. i have reinstalled the system software that came with the system and the same problems occur. i ran the apple test dvd and it told me everything is fine. quad core g5, 4 gb ram, dual 500 gig drives in non-raid configuration, osx server 10.4.10 build 8R218 maybe one of you folks out there can either tell me a) this is normal and shouldn't upset you b) something is really messed up and you need a new set of system disks or something c) just use program "xxx" from the terminal mode to fix it right back up, you should have known about it. > i know this isn't the proper place to ask this but i'm going to ask > anyway. I know I'm just going to end up encouraging the behavior by rewarding it, but if you know this is the wrong place to post why don't you post to the _right_ place? The number of groups that start 'comp.sys.mac.' isn't so huge that you're likely to miss 'comp.sys.mac.system' when you're posting a message with the subject "system problems." > maybe one of you folks out there can either tell me > a) this is normal and shouldn't upset you This is absolutely not normal. As you've been told before. Also not normal is any ongoing need to reset the NVRAM on any Mac ever shipped. > b) something is really messed up and you need a new set of system > disks or something That one is my guess, leaning toward the "or something." I don't imagine that defective installation media would exhibit the behavior you're seeing and if there was a bad run of install disks we'd probably have a second report of this behavior at Macintouch or MacFixit or someplace. Here's a question in two parts: 1. How long have you had your machine and, 2. Does it spend a significant amount of time not connected to a live electrical outlet? (Do you unplug it or turn off a power strip every night, or do you often lose power for extended periods of time?) > > i know this isn't the proper place to ask this but i'm going to ask > > anyway. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > isn't so huge that you're likely to miss 'comp.sys.mac.system' when > you're posting a message with the subject "system problems." thanks for posting the group i should subscribe to. i won't bother this group again with questions of this sort (unless you want to ask specific questions about THIS problem). > > maybe one of you folks out there can either tell me > > a) this is normal and shouldn't upset you [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > electrical outlet? (Do you unplug it or turn off a power strip every > night, or do you often lose power for extended periods of time?) 1) a little over a year. 2) it operates s a server and is on all the time. we had a power failure for 5 hours once during the time i had this machine and i also noticed we must have had a power failure yesterday but that one didn't even make my account log out. (i have a relay with a sealing circuit -where the contacts connect across the power on contacts to seal the circuit on, an industrial wiring normal- and that supplies power to my tv. my tv wouldn't turn on last night and i found out the relay needed to be reactivated therefore i must have had a power failure sometime) could "too close to the power lines" be the problem? walking around the house with the "fox and hound" looking for a specific wire in the walls gives me an extremely loud background hum until i get about 20 feet away from the house then it goes silent as it normally acts. i'm thinking the power main lines running ten feet behind my house may be inducing electrical currents within my machine in a similar way as an electrical transformer and if that's the case, i'll be able to do absolutely nothing about that. |
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