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10.4.5 update... any problems?

Major 10.4.5 Start Up Problem

Could not login after performing update restart, but got past that hurdle yesterday. This morning, my PB wouldn't wake up. Did restart & have "BDoD" blue screen after start up is "complete". Will not start up in safe mode. Some times during restart, normal chime sound is replaced with higher pitched "whooooooo" sound & sleep light flashes erratically. Have zapped P-RAM, etc..

Has anyone else experienced such fun after this update. It's a first for me in all the years of using Macs.. :(
 
I find that I have a lot less free RAM since the update. 10.4.4 gave me about 200 MB free with only Finder and Dashboard running, now I have about 130-140 MB free!!??
 
Ever since I updated to 10.4.5 my DC PMG5 froze TWICE!

Yes, 'FROZE,' as in completely locked up and required a 10-second power button hold to shutdown.

I've had this machine since 10.4.2... No problems until now.
'Been using macs for 6 years. No problems until now.

What gives?

I'm thinking a back up and erase/install, but being that I have 650GB to back up before I do so...I'm NOT looking forward to it.

Anyone with a similar experience?
 
10.4.5 = no issue

I have completed the update on my all of my Macs (see sig below) to 10.4.5. So far, no issue I can find while using them. CS2 still works, MX2004 still works, Safari is as fast as it has been, and etc. I always take off the Firewire and USB external HD from my machines before OS updates (However, I sometimes keep the USB hub on with mice/keyboard while update for a few of my machines which are not using BT units).
 
Actually I do have a problem. I quit Mail but there is still a black arrow underneath. I can click on it and "Mail" appears in the toolbar, but the quit option is gray, not black because Mail is quit I guess. But if I right click Mail in the Dock, I can click Quit but it does nothing. This never happened b4 so it probably is a problem from the update.
 
My Apple USB keyboard seems to be having a few problems. Occasionally it's not being recognized by the mac, and requires unplugging/plugging in again.

Several people at work have reported some USB issues also. I wonder if it's just co-incidence or something more to it?
 
I have another issue on BOTH my PM and my PB running 10.4.5. No biggie, but noticable and annoying. Apple Mail take minutes (like 2-5) to get new mail from my .Mac. I'd also like to note that I erased/installed and updated clean, then re-integrated my data on both machines.
 
ever since 10.4.4 Safari has been slow and I seem to get the beach ball up at least once an hour!
 
I finally took the plunge and updated my Rev. A 20" iMac on 10.3.9 to 10.4.5 and no problems at all (except for the hours I had to spend downloading updates on dial-up.) Launch from start-up is a way quicker and running my most used programs seems speedier too.
I'm nearly ready to back-up. I'll give it a few more hours just in case anything untowards shows up.
 
Just done that, I will see if that works, even though I think I have done that recently! Thanks.
 
eRondeau said:
Anybody else notice the "Genie Effect" is much faster now???
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I noticed that. I wonder if it's something we'll be able to adjust in a progrm like TinkerTool or Onyx (obviously not right at the moment, but in the future).
 
dsharits said:
I noticed that. I wonder if it's something we'll be able to adjust in a progrm like TinkerTool or Onyx (obviously not right at the moment, but in the future).
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Thats because of updated video/openGL drivers, and the continued move towards offloading more & more of the gui tasks to the video card. GPU's are specialized, single-task devices, rendereing & displaying pixels on the screen is there only function, and they can do it so much better than a CPU, which has to contend with literally 1000's of jobs at once.......

it's doubtful if you'll be able to adjust the genie speed, unless TT or Onyx comes up with a way to control the offloading process. You can, however, use some renice commands/utilities to assign a higher system resource priority to the window & UI server processes.....this does help some, but it is not specifically directed at just the genie effect, but rather the overall GUI responsiveness as a whole :)
 
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