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    Unexpected quits from safari and itunes

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by CanadianDude, Mar 20, 2011.

  1. CanadianDude

    CanadianDude Notebook Deity

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    I replaced my WD Scorpio black with a Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive, and installed an 8 GB kit into my revision 5.1 unibody MBP 2.53 ghz.

    I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard, did all my updates, installed the latest Adobe flash plugin, moved over my important data. Good to go. Or not...

    Safari quits ALL THE TIME...every time I visit my site for watching TV it quits unexpectedly. I know the whole Flash plugin story jibberish but prior to my HD and Ram upgrades this rarely occurred! Now, every single time I go that site, or any flash based site it WILL freeze and quit.

    iTunes is the same story. It quits unexpectedly every single time I open it. It will play music for a while, then quit by itself 'unexpectedly'.

    This is making me lose faith in the OSX stability. The thing that bothers me the most is that before I did the upgrades this never happened. No freezing, no quitting unexpectedly etc etc...

    What could be going on?
     
    CanadianDude, Mar 20, 2011
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  2. steve p

    steve p Notebook Evangelist

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    My sons MacBook was doing the same with Safari and Facebook last night... I updated Safari to 5.0.4 and the freezes went away (so far...).
     
    steve p, Mar 20, 2011
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    Well, you could be having hardware incompatibility issues. I know that Crosair (not that you have that brad of RAM, I am just using them as an example) lists their RAM as working with the MBP line (and it technically should) but many people run into similar issues when using it and there are some instances when their MBPs don't even recognize the RAM.

    The first thing I would do is put the factory RAM back in and see if the performance changes. The RAM will be the cause of your problem if the issues go away. Otherwise I would move onto the next step of taking the hard drive out and putting the factory one back in. I know others have issues with newer Seagate and Western Digital hard drives as they will spin down when they aren't being used. So you can open a program, the hard drive spins up, go for a small period of inactivity where the hard drive spins down, and come across issues when the OS (whether it is Mac OS X or not) tries to read something else.
     
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Sounds like a ram issue to me. Try putting your original ram back in your MBP as kornchild2002 suggested. If that fixes the problem, install 1 ram at a time and see if you can isolate which one is bad.
     
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    I have restarted the computer and everything seems fine now. I havent had any quits since restarting. A fresh restart may have been needed to finalize my updates...perhaps that was the problem.

    I do have my old ram and hard drive close by just in case the problem comes back. Thanks for your suggestions!
     
    CanadianDude, Mar 20, 2011
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