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Any 10.4.7 issues?

Transparent Dock

Transparent Dock 2.3.7 seems to be completely disabled on my 17" Powerbook. I am waiting on updating the rest of my machines, with all the issues that seem to be happening with this update.
 
g0ld2k said:
Hows this for issues, I installed the update on both my iMac and my MacBook, and on both I recieved a message saying that there was an error during install. Afterwhich I could not open any of my Apps and when I did try to reboot, my system hung on shutdown and after about 30 minutes I manually cut the machine off. When I booted the machine up all I get is the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning thinker thing. I let that sit there for another 30 minutes, and cut the machine off. Now each time I attempt to boot I get nowhere, just the Apple Logo and the spinning thing. This happend on both my iMac and my MacBook.

I'm currently trying to archive and install on the MacBook so we will see how that works.

So for now I'm stuck on a PC waiting for my Macs. I never thought I would be writing that.

Anyone have any ideas??
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Same thing happened to me with my intel imac. But the archive and reinstall worked. After archive and installing, restarting, running OnyX, doing combo update, restarting, running OnyX, doing softaware updates, restarting, running OnyX and restarting, all is right with the world again. But all of this took a couple of hours.
 
My only problem is that certain web pages make Safari stop existing. It locks up my Mac something fierce. I don't get the kernel panic screen but I can't bring up the force quit window either. I can still SSH into my Mac but can't figure out what is causing it. I thought it only locked up on sites that had video as Apple's trailer site and video.google.com both killed my machine. But for some reason xboxaddict.com also killed it.

I removed Flip4Mac PPC version and PithHelmet and have no other hacks running on my machine so I'm not sure what's doing it. Firefox works just fine so I don't think it's an issue with a plugin specifically. I've also pulled the plist files, cleared the cache, reset safari, installed the combo updater, repaired permissions... pretty much everything except an archive & install.

I'll just use Firefox until 10.4.8 I guess...

Intel iMac 2.0 Core Duo, 2GB RAM, 256 MB Video RAM.
 
Everything is fine on my PB, but on the Intel iMac, whenever I go into Time and Date settings I get the beach ball and System Prefs. stops responding. :confused:
 
i'm not sure when this happened, but i am just now first noticing that i lost one of my sticks of ram. i guess i'll run some diagnostics.

(G4 powerbook, by the way.)
 
ifjake said:
i'm not sure when this happened, but i am just now first noticing that i lost one of my sticks of ram. i guess i'll run some diagnostics.

(G4 powerbook, by the way.)
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Could be that you have just experienced the Lower Memory Slot Failure (check the Apple website). Although nobody knows the real cause, it seems to crop up mostly after a software update. I sent mine in a while back to be fixed (Apple will do those in a certain serial number range for free (you get a new logic board), but it should include all of them). If it goes out again I will just use one slot and get a 1GB chip for it.
 
danny_w said:
Could be that you have just experienced the Lower Memory Slot Failure (check the Apple website). Although nobody knows the real cause, it seems to crop up mostly after a software update. I sent mine in a while back to be fixed (Apple will do those in a certain serial number range for free (you get a new logic board), but it should include all of them). If it goes out again I will just use one slot and get a 1GB chip for it.
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Yeah i think this is the case. Diagnostics returned an error on the lower slot. Thanks for the heads up.
 
max_altitude said:
Everything is fine on my PB, but on the Intel iMac, whenever I go into Time and Date settings I get the beach ball and System Prefs. stops responding. :confused:
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I haven't noticed any problems yet (but I haven't tried everything yet). But after reading this I went to try the Time and Date settings, and the Preferences icon was no longer in my Dock. Now, I may have accidentally dragged it off at some point, but I know it was there earlier in the week.

Dragging it from Applications to the Dock worked fine though.
 
benthewraith said:
Did anyone with a MBP have their whine get worse?
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I dont have a MBP, but on my MacBook it seems to have completly gone (this may not be accurate as I am using MSN). Well, its not as loud as it was before. I can't hear it unless I press my head right against the laptop.
 
As I posted in one of the other 10.4.7 threads:

One very strange thing I've noticed is that when I'm charging my battery on my MBP it doesn't seem to know when it's full! It gets to 100% charge and then just keeps saying "Calculating...until full" and the light on the charger never changes from amber to green.

This definitely didn't happen pre 10.4.7! I just hope that this isn't damaging my battery in any way.
 
PatrickF said:
As I posted in one of the other 10.4.7 threads:

One very strange thing I've noticed is that when I'm charging my battery on my MBP it doesn't seem to know when it's full! It gets to 100% charge and then just keeps saying "Calculating...until full" and the light on the charger never changes from amber to green.

This definitely didn't happen pre 10.4.7! I just hope that this isn't damaging my battery in any way.
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That has been happening on laptops for me since i started with OS X at about 10.2.4
 
Glad it's not just me then although I have never had this happen before last night. Haven't seen the green light since installing 10.4.7.

Might try resetting the PMU.
 
PatrickF said:
Glad it's not just me then although I have never had this happen before last night. Haven't seen the green light since installing 10.4.7.

Might try resetting the PMU.
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I have the green light it just will randomly say that calculating message
 
PatrickF said:
As I posted in one of the other 10.4.7 threads:

One very strange thing I've noticed is that when I'm charging my battery on my MBP it doesn't seem to know when it's full! It gets to 100% charge and then just keeps saying "Calculating...until full" and the light on the charger never changes from amber to green.

This definitely didn't happen pre 10.4.7! I just hope that this isn't damaging my battery in any way.
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Ditto here, never was like that before....
 
I updated all my work computers (~100+) without a hitch.

I brought in my home Mac to update (it was 10.4.3)... Got about 1/2 way thru the 10.4.7 combo intaller and by coincidence, my harddrive went belly up. I got I/O Errors when trying to install, and all Apple-apps would crash on launch (and I mean ALL), with the same I/O errors.

I ended up having to wipe the drive and restore from my last backup. Ran the updater again, no problems at all.

So.. just in CASE, back up before you install. It's always a good idea. Because you might be in that small % where you have troubles and want to kick your own ass for not backing up. ;)
 
Firefox is crashing after update

After installing the 10.4.7 and firmware updates to my MBP 17, I've noticed that Firefox crashes on launch, or after opening a couple tabs... it's wierd!

I disabled all Firefox extentions thinking that might be the problem... it did not help. Since then I also installed Bon Echo (Firefox 2.0 alpha) to see if it would run better... it crashes exactly the same way -- sometimes right at launch, sometimes after opening a site (like digg.com or apple.com) and sometimes when opening a second tab. Like I said, wierd! Anyone else have these problems?

I'm writing this from Safari, which is running fine. But I sync my Firefox bookmarks, etc with other computers and really miss it. Firefox never crashed before this OS and firmware update. I don't know what else to check to get this fixed.
 
Help!!!

ive just downloaded the new version of tiger, 10.4.7 and my mac wont go past the grey apple screen. just hanging on the logo, nothing happening for about 1 hour. it wont let me start up with the tiger install dvd by holding down c whilst dvd in drive (has to be in external dvd dive as internal is on the blink). i havent had any problems with an OS before so any help would be greatly recieved...........
 
Just bought the new Myst game. I've been playing it for a few days and then as soon as I dled the update the program crashes as soon as I open it.
 
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