[staronejazz]

Hey! First of all hello to MacNN happy to be here. Anyways..I just purchased a new Macbook three days ago...im new to the mac world...Ive had two problems already.

I have
Macbook 1.83ghz
512 Ram
60 gig hardrive
using Bootcamp with Win Xp installed
10.4.6 tiger

First issue...my date and time is all wrong so I hit that icon on the corner to adjust it and while its trying to open system prefernces....the little multi colored wheel is turning for at least 2 minutes. System preferences finally opens...and then i click inside of there and the same round wheel pops up and loads forever.

Whats the problem here? This is a brand new computer....3 days old...the win xp side of my setup is working flawlessly.

Second problem:
When I start mac os x it gives me a warning that i did not shut my computer down properly?? How i shut down....press shut down during the window you have two minutes and it will shut down immediately...i just click shutdown. WHats up with that.

Any info greatly appreciated....this mac world is new to me and like i said my windows side of things is working flawlessly.

One point thats kinda funny... I make music....I loaded Propellerheads Reason in both mac osx side of things and the windows side of things. When loading the demo song in both environments. Windows kills it...plays it great....in Mac i get a warning computer too slow...glitches and stuff....

hmmmmmmmmm

[ibook_steve]

Reset your PRAM to fix the clock problem: reboot and hold apple-option-p-r together until you hear the boot chime at least twice. Then let go and let it boot. Then set the time. It should work OK.

You should basically never have to shut down your computer. Just put it to sleep. Not sure why the machine thinks you are not shutting down properly unless you are doing something to it after clicking "shutdown" and not waiting for it to shut down on its own.

Steve

[staronejazz]

Originally Posted by ibook_steve 

Reset your PRAM to fix the clock problem: reboot and hold apple-option-p-r together until you hear the boot chime at least twice. Then let go and let it boot. Then set the time. It should work OK.

You should basically never have to shut down your computer. Just put it to sleep. Not sure why the machine thinks you are not shutting down properly unless you are doing something to it after clicking "shutdown" and not waiting for it to shut down on its own.

Steve

Thank you steve for the quick response...Im kinda trippin you know? Do you think the error in the time is what is causing the slow response? its a new computer you know...nothing even really downloaded. I will try and let you know my findings.

For now on I will put the computer to sleep. I guess like humans....I wanna go to sleep at night I dont wanna be shutdown! lol. Maybe too much to drink I get shutdown.
HA!