Seems that not only am I getting constant random beach balls and eventual unresponsive programs, but I am also getting regular device driver corruptions. These are all third party devices that have "qualified drivers for this OS". Come on Apple get it together.
Disgruntled Pro Tools user.
Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 3.33 GHz 6-Core Xeon, 32 GB RAM
Try doing some basic maintenance.
Disk Utility Repair Permissions You Can Safely Ignore
General Maintenance Recommendations
For the spinning beach balls and unresponsive programs, if the above doesn't solve the problem:
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode. Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the grey Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal.
General information.
Try doing some basic maintenance.
Disk Utility Repair Permissions You Can Safely Ignore
General Maintenance Recommendations
For the spinning beach balls and unresponsive programs, if the above doesn't solve the problem:
Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work.
Isolating an issue by using another user account
If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode. Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the grey Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal.
General information.
Thanks Eric. I have tried all of the above, and still experience the same issues. This only began to happen upon the upgrade to 10.8.2. Prior to that, the system waa stable.
Cheers
Joe
If you haven't installed the 10.8.2 supplemental update, maybe that might help. There are 2 and since I don't know the age of your computer, I'll post both:
10.8.2 supplemental update for 2012
You can try re-installing Mountain Lion by booting into the Recovery Partition (command - R). Ugly, but has solved a lot of problems.
Is your hard drive going bad? I've never, in all my years, heard of an OS causing "random device driver corruptions."
Hi Eric,
Once again, thanks for the thoughts. I certainly would try to avoid a re-install if I can. My setup is in a studio and would be hard pressed to suffer the downtime. Last resort for sure.
As for the age of the computer, it is brand new. About a month old. I have done the 10.8.2 update...however, I will try the supplemental.
Cheers
Joe
William,
I certainly would never say it is not possible, but highly unlikely. The Mac Pro is a month old and has a brand new OWC SSD.
Thanks for the help,
Joe
Hi Eric
I downloaded the Supplimental Update for 2012 Machines 10.8.2, however it says that it is not compatable with this system. Odd, as my computer is a Mid 2012 model. Never a dull moment.
That said, the other patch installed fine. Odd but treu. Maybe that will do it. Time will tell.
Cheers
Joe
Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Random Device Driver Corruption
