[macbain80]

So the last couple of days (after installing iLife...hmmm), my 1 ghz TiBook (OS 10.2.8) has frozen in a way I've never seen or heard of before...

I'll be in the middle of something benign, like closing a finder window, etc., when suddenly the computer freezes. A closing window stopped right in the middle of it's animation and sat floating above the dock, halfway minimized. Here's the really bizarre part... the mouse moves around just fine, but clicking on anything is useless. Not even force quit comes up with the keyboard command, nothing.

Even weirder has been the solution. Twice I've shut the powerbook, and a minute later it goes to sleep. Then, when I open the lid, it comes out of sleep and all seems fine, for the moment.

Any ideas or thoughts? It's scary because it's not a kernel panic, and it's not just the processor overloaded and taking a while. It's an honest-to-God OS9 style freeze...

[Detrius]

It's also not an OS 9 style freeze because the mouse still moves. I have seen similar stuff before in much older versions of the OS where putting my laptop to sleep and waking it back up would bring it back to life. Don't know what to say other than that. I haven't noticed this in Panther, though.

By the way, for people that find this by searching for freezes in OS X in this forum... an actual OS 9 style hard freeze where the mouse doesn't move is ALWAYS faulty hardware and usually processor related. This comes from an Apple Certified Technician (me). If your machine is hard freezing in OS X, software won't fix it.

[Krypton]

If you have Synergy 1.0.x installed that is the likely cause.

[macbain80]

Wow, I do have Synergy 1.0 installed. Nice call. Have removed it, we'll see what happens.

Thanks!!!

[rsamayoa]

Not really I have the same issue but I have the beach ball of dead in my system. It has todo with a corrupted file. I have about 20 systems doing the same thing from internet explorer and appleworks.

I read another discussion and they are talking about reseting some preferences inside the root\library folder.

what you guys think about this.

I think is the same issue that we are experiencing.