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Mac mini freeze.......

wingrg

wingrg

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Jul 8, 2015
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Hi to all i'm new to Mac word, my equipment Mac Mini early 2009 120 GB, 8GB, my only problem is that soon i access amazon.com my Mac freeze that the only page that i know that this happen and i have to shutdown manually and restart again, any advise going to be appreciate.

Thanks!
 
What version of OS X are you running on your mini?

Are you using Safari, or some other browser, such as Firefox or Chrome?
 
Ohh sorry I forgot about that detail Yosemite v10.10.4 and use safari and firefox both freeze in same page very strange...
 
Seems strange about being only amazon.com

What about other somewhat intense pages - like cnn.com, etc? Or, even Youtube.com?
Do you have any problems loading and running this speed test page?

One page with problems viewing from two very different web browsers?
You could try changing your DNS servers to one of the public ones, such as OpenDNS.
Here's a page that explains how to easily change your network settings: https://use.opendns.com/#mac
I suggest that when you save those settings, that you restart your Mac. That's not usually needed, but that will assure that your system loads those changes completely, just on the chance that is affecting your internet connection.
 
well i test all page that you listed and all upload super fast without freeze i going to try tomorrow the dans but first going to make a hdd update and post update.
Thanks!
 
Can you provide us with the URL of the page that freezes your Mini?
 
Oh wow, I was about to take a nap when I saw this post. I have been experiencing the exact same problem, running my Mac Mini 2009, 256GB SSD, 8GB of RAM, Yosemite. www.amazon.com, front page that big banner, it happened to me three times already. As soon as I get on that page, the banner (picture or some Ad) scrambles into these weird looking tiles (and only the banner is scrambled every time), looks like what your monitor would give you if your VGA/DVI cable was loose. Then the whole machine would freeze, it would then after a few second flash the whole screen then I would be able to move the mouse, it would then flash again and the mouse would be dead (whole machine freeze) and repeat. This happened to me a total of three times, the first time I had to do a hard restart, the second time I was able to struggle to get to activity monitor and kill safari, and the third time I had to do a hard restart again. I have not visited Amazon since.

At fist i suspect it was hardware problem giving that the machine is rather old, but I did a Apple hardware test which resulted in a clean bill of health, I then did a memtest with no problem either. The last thing I was thinking to do is to run a SSD test.

But I guess I'm not the only one that's experiencing this particular problem. I have not update or change any hardware/software configuration before all this happened. As I'm typing this I suspect this could be the work of ABP? That would be the biggest factor to have on the browser when access any website.

Ps. I have other browser installed, but I don't use them. I only run Safari.
 
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aajeevlin said:
... I have been experiencing the exact same problem, running my Mac Mini 2009, 256GB SSD, 8GB of RAM, Yosemite. www.amazon.com, front page that big banner, it happened to me three times already. As soon as I get on that page, the banner (picture or some Ad) scrambles into these weird looking tiles (and only the banner is scrambled every time), looks like what your monitor would give you if your VGA/DVI cable was loose. Then the whole machine would freeze, it would then after a few second flash the whole screen then I would be able to move the mouse, it would then flash again and the mouse would be dead (whole machine freeze) and repeat. This happened to me a total of three times, the first time I had to do a hard restart, the second time I was able to struggle to get to activity monitor and kill safari, and the third time I had to do a hard restart again. I have not visited Amazon since.
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But I guess I'm not the only one that's experiencing this particular problem. I have not update or change any hardware/software configuration before all this happened. As I'm typing this I suspect this could be the work of ABP? That would be the biggest factor to have on the browser when access any website.

Ps. I have other browser installed, but I don't use them. I only run Safari.
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I don't think this could possibly be a hardware issue, if the problem only occurs on a single web site.
Are you using a public DNS server, such as OpenDNS? Try it as a test.

How about location? OP is in Puerto Rico. What country are you in?
 
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DeltaMac said:
I don't think this could possibly be a hardware issue, if the problem only occurs on a single web site.
Are you using a public DNS server, such as OpenDNS? Try it as a test.

How about location? OP is in Puerto Rico. What country are you in?
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That post above is the same issue i was experience, sorry for the delay i was working in a hdd upgrade, i agree is not a hardware issue but i upgrade to a big hdd an the issue disappear, maybe was something to do with the internet provider or something but right now issue disappear, i can access the web page without problem, i just notice and read in other site that some people experience freeze problems with pink color banners don't know is it true or not, but in my case this pink banner was present in the amazon webpage at the time of the issue and they change it and problem disappears, let see is something come back i let you know guys thanks for the help.
 
DeltaMac said:
I don't think this could possibly be a hardware issue, if the problem only occurs on a single web site.
Are you using a public DNS server, such as OpenDNS? Try it as a test.

How about location? OP is in Puerto Rico. What country are you in?
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wingrg said:
That post above is the same issue i was experience, sorry for the delay i was working in a hdd upgrade, i agree is not a hardware issue but i upgrade to a big hdd an the issue disappear, maybe was something to do with the internet provider or something but right now issue disappear, i can access the web page without problem, i just notice and read in other site that some people experience freeze problems with pink color banners don't know is it true or not, but in my case this pink banner was present in the amazon webpage at the time of the issue and they change it and problem disappears, let see is something come back i let you know guys thanks for the help.
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Thanks for the feedback guy. I did the AHT, then I did a internet boot and I ran disk utility a few time and it seems the problem just went away. Still don't know what this is all about but I'm glad my Mac Mini 2009 is still going strong. Although I'm hope this is not the first sign of aging (besides the slowly down that is).
 
fhall1 said:
Maybe you guys didn't do anything and Amazon fixed their page code due to a number of complaints?
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It's possible, but since I can't reproduce the issue (I suppose that's a good thing), I can't for sure if that's the case. Although it is very weird that the problem just went away...
 
fhall1 said:
Maybe you guys didn't do anything and Amazon fixed their page code due to a number of complaints?
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I am daily on Amazon, and the same problems started today (Aug 18). My Mac completely freezes when on Amazon HomePage (I suspect the carousel banner is the issue, as it changes into gibberish, and then all freezes). It happens with Safari and with FireFox. I have latest OS and latest browsers...
 
So after about 10 days the problem is back again. I casually went to Amazon's website, right away I saw the banner scrambled, with in seconds the computer was locked up. I want to say it's hardware but I have yet to be able to pinpoint down to any particular issues. I'm hoping is not the SSD, although I'm not even sure if a bad SSD would cause this. I want to blame Amazon, but at least same time if no body else is having this issue it's hard to reproduce it.

Update: Looks like we CAN blame Amazon. Found the exact same discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7163501
 
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