Re: [Avid-L2] Mac trouble

I'll try this over the weekend, thanks. The security requirement is that the machine cannot be connected to the video server (terrablock) and the internet at the same time. So, I can connect it to the internet for maintenance as long as it's disconnected from the terrablock - easy enough to do without breaking any rules.

Thanks for the suggestion. There's nothing terribly 'special' on this machine - it just takes a while to re-load all that software if you have to rebuild it from scratch, and I don't know if that will solve the problem. Sorry for your trouble, but good to hear I'm not alone. Hopefully not a hardware issue.

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Greg Huson
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Post Production / Production
Culver City, CA
323 677 2092
www.DigitalServiceStation.com
greg (at) SecretHQ.com
www.SecretHQ.com




On Feb 19, 2014, at 11:29 AM, Jeff Hedberg <jeff@unioneditorial.com> wrote:

> I had something similar.
>
> Since you are on 10.8 this should work for you as well.
> Start up with 'option' key held down - then choose the recovery partition to start from.
>
> Then when you get the choice - choose 'reinstall Mac OSX'
>
> This reinstalled the OS around all of my user data on the machine. (I had a time machine backup standing by - but ended up not needing it)
>
> However, I think this will only work if it connects to the internet. So if your problem is hardware, and network related, you might be out of luck.
>
>
> here's a reference:
> http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10763?viewlocale=en_US
>
>
> HTH
> Jeff
>
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> Jeff Hedberg
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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Greg Huson <Greg@SecretHQ.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey experts!
>>
>> I have a macpro (10.8.5) that locks up after about two minutes of operation - regardless of what's going on. However it does NOT do this when launched in 'safe' mode. Of course, my anti-virus won't run in safe mode.
>>
>> Any tips what might be the issue? Anyone had this problem recently? This is not a machine I use myself regularly, so I can't say what's changed recently - other than we no longer allow our workstations to access the internet, as of about 3 weeks ago. (Though I can't imagine what software would completely lock the system if it couldn't access the internet.) This problem only cropped up day before yesterday. Most recent 'major' change to the machine was probably 2 months ago, when I completely reloaded the OS 'from scratch' in order to dump a lot of old 'grandfathered' crap that was on the drive. Applications on the drive include Adobe, Avid, and FCP. All our machines are configured more or less the same - this is the only one exhibiting this problem. (Also, coincidentally, our oldest macpro.)
>>
>> Any anecdotes or clues would be appreciated.
>>
>> gh
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> Greg Huson
>> Secret Headquarters, Inc
>> Post Production / Production
>> Culver City, CA
>> 323 677 2092
>> www.DigitalServiceStation.com
>> greg (at) SecretHQ.com
>> www.SecretHQ.com
>>
>>
>
>
>



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