Beach Ball Hell

[dannster]

I reset the PRAM but it did no good.

I called Apple and their solutions solved it!

1) They made me reset my hardware by doing the following:

Turn off your MBP.
Hold down Shift + Control + Option and then press the power button. The MBP won't do anything - this is normal.
Release and press the power button and your MBP should boot up as normal.

2) They made me delete my cache, which seems to have solved this issue:

Go to User > Library > Cache and delete everything in that folder, but don't delete the Cache folder itself.
Empty the trash and reboot.

 

[getz76]

Turn off your MBP.
Hold down Shift + Control + Option and then press the power button. The MBP won't do anything - this is normal.
Release and press the power button and your MBP should boot up as normal.

I have never heard of that start-up command before. Does anyone know what that actually does, if anything?

 

[Smoothie]

It's an SMC reset command.

 

[getz76]

It's an SMC reset command.

Got it. Thanks for the help.

 

[Imola Ghost]

I was having tons of beach balls and freezing with my Seagate 500gb hard drive and after calling Apple they walked me thru the steps mentioned above about the SMC and a few other things like the post above and my 13" MBP is running very smooth.

For the past 4 days I haven't seen a beach ball at all and I'm very happy but I'll continue to monitor it though!

 

[jay1118]

Will definitely try this out and will report back.

 

[t0mat0]

Just to link to the click beep threads - having gone through the entire Apple thread on this, there seems to be several issues
- Some getting just clicking
- Some getting clicking and beeping with momentary freezes
- Some getting less click beeeping, but getting longer >10/20-30 second system wide freezes with or without beachballing.

My advice is to have a video camera on hand, or maybe get a free trial of screenflow etc and capture the pausing, as it's the easiest proof to show a Genius, bar them seeing the issue itself, which being sporadic through the day, isn't really easily triggerable. Wessto's linked to the Apple thread and the other macrumors MBP thread - i'd add a comment to both so you can be counted as having the issue (the longer ferezes are less common within the set of people having the click beep issue).

 

[getz76]

I had a lot of beach balls in Firefox; any Flash page or heavy Java page would induce it.

I cleared caches, reset PRAM. No help.

I just swapped my BTO Seagate 320gb/7,200rpm drive with a Fujitsu 320gb/7,200rpm drive. No more beach balls.

 

[tsa1]

i had random beachballs in safari for like 10-15secs, i reset my PRAM again, and no more beachballs, not a single one.

should i reset my SMC just for the hell of it?

 

[IBradMac]

Still getting it. Very annoying.

 

[CoolJoe57]

I reset the PRAM but it did no good.

I called Apple and their solutions solved it!

1) They made me reset my hardware by doing the following:

Turn off your MBP.
Hold down Shift + Control + Option and then press the power button. The MBP won't do anything - this is normal.
Release and press the power button and your MBP should boot up as normal.

2) They made me delete my cache, which seems to have solved this issue:

Go to User > Library > Cache and delete everything in that folder, but don't delete the Cache folder itself.
Empty the trash and reboot.

THANK YOU! This worked perfectly, as the pram didn't. I never had time to call apple myself with school and all. I've been going two days without a single beach ball. My entire computer feels noticeably faster. So thanks again.

And to anyone who is having this problem, you need to do this, it perfectly worked for me.

 

[swerz]

A little maintenance goes a long way.

I've had a lot of trouble with spinning beach balls on my MBP recently. Yesterday I reset PRAM, cleared out everything in Cache folder and also ran Onyx.

Seems to be much better now. Fingers crossed.

I reset the PRAM but it did no good.

I called Apple and their solutions solved it!

1) They made me reset my hardware by doing the following:

Turn off your MBP.
Hold down Shift + Control + Option and then press the power button. The MBP won't do anything - this is normal.
Release and press the power button and your MBP should boot up as normal.

2) They made me delete my cache, which seems to have solved this issue:

Go to User > Library > Cache and delete everything in that folder, but don't delete the Cache folder itself.
Empty the trash and reboot.