It's a long and descriptive story, but I'll try to keep it as short as possible.
One day I was using my MacBook Pro (which was performing perfectly fine) until all of a sudden the computer was completely frozen and unresponsive. I rebooted the Mac and then it eventually froze again, so I rebooted again, and the cycle repeated until all of a sudden, it works completely fine, but now the MacBook is saying that I don't have an Airport card installed.
I know for a fact that the Airport card didn't die out, because every once in a while I would boot up the computer (and not because of freezing issues) and the Airport would come back on, but I would then face the inevitable freezing and unresponsiveness.
I thought I would be fine without the Airport being able to turn on most of the time because the computer would run fine. About a month and a half goes by when one day I was playing a video game, when the program became unusually sluggish and unresponsive sometimes. It seemed like the more I would restart the computer, the MacBook got progressively worse. It got to the point that running any program would make the computer slow and unresponsive, but oddly the Dock always worked smoothly. The computer would get so slow that a spinning circle would appear, (like the spinning circle that pops up as the computer boots up) and I would have to reboot. The hard drive would make a noise it wouldn't normally make when it rebooted, and it took longer than unusual to boot up.
Side note: I have often used the MacBook to play Call of Duty 4 and Counter-Strike, and I'm thinking that all that time playing and heating up the computer might have led to all this mess.
It seems like there is definitely a problem with the hard drive, but I'm hoping it's just the hard drive that's messed up. Can any of you help me out and tell me what's wrong, or is it too complicated to know what's exactly wrong without taking a look inside?
My computer:
MacBook Pro (2010 or 11)
OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
2.26 GHz Intel Core Duo
2 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3 RAM
159.7 Hard Drive memory capacity
One day I was using my MacBook Pro (which was performing perfectly fine) until all of a sudden the computer was completely frozen and unresponsive. I rebooted the Mac and then it eventually froze again, so I rebooted again, and the cycle repeated until all of a sudden, it works completely fine, but now the MacBook is saying that I don't have an Airport card installed.
I know for a fact that the Airport card didn't die out, because every once in a while I would boot up the computer (and not because of freezing issues) and the Airport would come back on, but I would then face the inevitable freezing and unresponsiveness.
I thought I would be fine without the Airport being able to turn on most of the time because the computer would run fine. About a month and a half goes by when one day I was playing a video game, when the program became unusually sluggish and unresponsive sometimes. It seemed like the more I would restart the computer, the MacBook got progressively worse. It got to the point that running any program would make the computer slow and unresponsive, but oddly the Dock always worked smoothly. The computer would get so slow that a spinning circle would appear, (like the spinning circle that pops up as the computer boots up) and I would have to reboot. The hard drive would make a noise it wouldn't normally make when it rebooted, and it took longer than unusual to boot up.
Side note: I have often used the MacBook to play Call of Duty 4 and Counter-Strike, and I'm thinking that all that time playing and heating up the computer might have led to all this mess.
It seems like there is definitely a problem with the hard drive, but I'm hoping it's just the hard drive that's messed up. Can any of you help me out and tell me what's wrong, or is it too complicated to know what's exactly wrong without taking a look inside?
My computer:
MacBook Pro (2010 or 11)
OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
2.26 GHz Intel Core Duo
2 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3 RAM
159.7 Hard Drive memory capacity
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The first thing that comes to mind is your Mac may be freezing (in part) due to the small amount of RAM you have, especially with the intensive games you run.
