hello Ronni thanks for all the tips & tricks, the problem is when it crashes it's not always blue screen, but always the situation that the mouse/trackpad cursor can be moved around & the buttons & also the whole keyboard is locked up, the only button that works is the power button force shutdown & start again is the only way it's always when i quit an app, never before or after i'm following up the suggestion with 10.6.8 combo update (......but i have 10.6.8 installed) a rerun doesn't hurt i assume James
SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. On 06/02/2012, at 9:04 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi James, > > This will happen if you have some software running that has crashed and will > not properly Quit at Shutdown. > > Do this prior to the next attempt to shutdown: > > Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the > Processesdropdown menu. > Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. > If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time, then select the > process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. > Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. > > See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you > can track down the cause of the problem. > > If no process stands out then one at a time select an opened application (one > you started) and try to quit the application via Activity Monitor Quit > button. > If you find one that won't quit properly that's the culprit. > > Also, open the Console application. Examine the log entries around the time > of the previous attempt to shutdown. > There may be an entry indicating a failed attempt to quit a process. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.7.3 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > On 06/02/2012, at 8:53 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: > >> i have the same blue screen sometimes after quitting applications, in my >> case skype & some 3rd party apps are most likely to produce that problem >> it seems to connect to a firmware update i have done last october, because >> on crash there is no report produced so apple never will know about this.... >> James >> >> SAD Technic >> U3 6 Chalkley Pl >> Bayswater WA >> Australia >> +618 9370 5307 >> mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) >> sad...@iinet.net.au >> http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ >> >> Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties >> disappear and obstacles vanish. >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
