Well, I finally gave AppleCare a call... what they suggest is to run a hardware test overnight... the disc that comes specifically for your mac when you first bought it...
boot ur mac with that disc by restarting ur mac by pressing the c key till you see something on the screen... press ctrl L to enable looping, which you'll get to see "loop on" on you right bottom of the display screen... then press start on extended check... you got to leave them running overnight so it's best to do it while you're sleeping... looping enables to troubleshoot your hardware over and over again till they detect a problem... if there's a hardware issue, you'll get to see error codes on the screen, otherwise you can exit the screen by restarting your mac by pressing ctrl
applepower button...
when you didn't see any error messages, the good news is your mac hardware is still in good condition... the problem could be the OS or other 3rd party applications... what i did is I downloaded main menu (
http://www.santasw.com/)which is a powerful maintenance software available freely on the net... On main menu, under task, clean up all archived and logs, as well as remove temp files.. you might want to remove .DS_store files and cache as well.. clean up all your browser caches and history as well.. lastly you might want to go through the maintenance scripts and do the disk repair last... this basically cleans up your system esp if you had downloaded something from the net which might cause the problem or using any applications that hinder the operation of OS.. restart your mac after you've done this... you might have to repeat this for several times.. i basically do it everytime after i surf the net and each time i log on...
after you've done all these and the freezing issue comes back again, the only option left is to reinstall the OS... but before you do anything of the above, it's best (if you could) back up all your impt data and doc... certain items such as your music and movies which can be very huge can be retrieve using the software senuti (
http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/)if you have everything on your ipod
well, my mac is okie now without reinstalling the OS... i've just watched grey's anatomy n desperate housewives for over 5 hrs without freezing using VLC player... my suspect is the version of VLC player i'm using previously that's causing the problem 'cos it just keeps hanging every 15 minutes i'm watching the show... i downloaded the latest version and now it seems okie now... it's been 2 days and it's working fine without freezing even i put my mac to sleep for a while... however, i'll still have to KIV after doing all those... it's taking me 3-4 days figuring out what i can do to get this freezing issue resolve.. if it comes back again, i guess i'd have to reinstall the OS...
i hope this can help you to resolve the issue you've been facing... thumb of rule, if hardware doesn't fail, we can always reinstall the OS if we can't troubleshoot what's causing the problem... i know reinstalling the OS can be frustrating and time consuming... that's y i'm basically doing my mac for the past 4 days...
