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Safari crashes, forces hard reboot

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cpjrmd

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Feb 1, 2008
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During normal web browsing (usually with nothing more that safari, ichat, and itunes open), my safari will give me the spinning beach ball and not even allow me to quit the application. This then proceeds to do the same thing to my other running applications to the point where I have to do a hard reboot. I have the 2.4 with 2 gigs of ram (less than a month old). Thanks!

Edit: I guess it's not limited to Safari, it just happened with Word.
 
I just repaired permissions and, naturally, it froze up again right after that.

Noob question, but is there a difference in command+q and a force quit? If so, how do you force quit?
 
cpjrmd said:
Noob question, but is there a difference in command+q and a force quit? If so, how do you force quit?
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I'll use option + command + esc. It brings up the force quit window. Not sure if there's a difference though.
 
cpjrmd said:
During normal web browsing (usually with nothing more that safari, ichat, and itunes open), my safari will give me the spinning beach ball and not even allow me to quit the application. This then proceeds to do the same thing to my other running applications to the point where I have to do a hard reboot. I have the 2.4 with 2 gigs of ram (less than a month old). Thanks!

Edit: I guess it's not limited to Safari, it just happened with Word.
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The memory you have in your system, was it originally installed by Apple, or did you upgrade it yourself? If you've upgraded the RAM, and the system is crashing randomly, I would suspect the RAM is at fault.

If not... then it'll be some other hardware issue.

You can try resetting the PRAM (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379)

If that doesn't help, you try running the Apple Hardware Test?
Set it for the long test.. if it crashes it should report an error. If your system completely fails the AHT, return the whole system to Apple.
 
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