Haveing some issues.

Okay so in the last week or so I have been getting Spinning beach ball of death just doing stuff like web browsing, word processing, etc. They will last aboot 10 seconds or so. And now today My external monitor will dim and come back consistently on certain web pages. It seems to change depending on where my mouse is on the page.

I have lots of hard drive space left and Plenty of RAM.

I don't have a clue what to do.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

have you tried restarting pram?

 

what does that do?

how do we do that?

 

Okay I reset PRAM. My monitor seems fine now. It's still hanging tho.

 

Do you use Onyx or MainMenu? When's the last time you repaired disk permissions?

 

Okay I just tried Onyx it said there was a problem with my volume. So I booted into my OS X DVD and repaired my disk, Let's see if that works.

Thanks for the help guys.

 

Okay so it went away, But then came back 2 or so days later. I posted a thread on macrumors maybe some one there knows something.

 

sign of the hdd dying? My friend had the same issue then he got he's hdd replace

 

S.M.A.R.T says it's fine. But I was thinking of that. I guess I could boot from my USB back up and see if that makes a difference.

 

Does anything strange happen in Activity Monitor when you get one of these beachball spells? Perhaps something is using up all your CPU or RAM?

 

No, The only thing that happens in the activity monitor is that it says the program I am using is not responding. But nothing is really usable. I can click a window it will bring it forward but I can't do anything else with it.

 

This happens with mine but very rarely. I guess os x needs a good reformat.

 

Ditto, at this point it's best to do a full erase, reformat and install of Mac OS X. If you're still having issues then it has to be failing HDD.

 

Okay so I tried booting from my external HDD that is a image of my current drive. It does not have this problem and it is wayyy faster, I never realized how slow it had gotten. So I am going to go with something being wrong with my hard drive... But now I have come upon another problem. I went to the western digital site to download a hard drive diag tool and I try to boot to it, it just goes to a black screen. I also can't boot into windows anymore. It just goes to a black screen too. I can boot into it windows with VMware fine.

 

If youre booting on another hard drive, does it not have bootcamp?

Or are you speaking of the bootcamp on your internal hdd?

 

Windows is on my internal drive, my external does not have a copy of windows on it.

 

Okay so it is getting worse by the min. I tried to get disk utilty to clone windows but disk utilty would freez. I restarted to boot into my external but it locked up at the white sceen on start up. I can't get into os x no matter what I am on my iPod touch now lol

 

Did a diag , verdict to many bad sectors.