Somewhat frequent freeze

[JPT]

Hey, every once in a while my whole laptop will freeze. The only way to get it to work again is a hard restart. It doesn't seem to happen when I am doing anything in particular. it just happens...


Specs:
MBP 15.4"
2 GB RAM
120 GB HDD (5400 RPM)
ATI Radeon X1600 256MB
blah blah blah


I checked my crash logs but there doesn't seem to be anything there...

 

[ebouwman]

have you checked the activity monitor?

 

[nazmac21]

Do you have the latest version of Mac OS X (10.4.9)?

 

[JPT]

What would I be looking for in the Activity Monitor?

Any yes, I just upgraded before the crash... Would it have anything to do with me not restarting soon after the update downloaded/installed? I just hid the update screen when it was done because I didn't want to restart just yet...

 

[nazmac21]

What would I be looking for in the Activity Monitor?

Any yes, I just upgraded before the crash... Would it have anything to do with me not restarting soon after the update downloaded/installed? I just hid the update screen when it was done because I didn't want to restart just yet...

The computer will re-start after an update (by pressing restart after the software update is finished). Did you in some way interrupt the software update?
Activity Monitor will show processes and whats using your RAM.

 

[JPT]

It has never auto restarted for me since day one. It asks me if I want to restart or shutdown once the update is done.

And all I did was use Adium and surf the net while it was doing its thing.

 

[nazmac21]

And all I did was use Adium and surf the net while it was doing its thing.

That might do something with that. I just leave my laptops idle when I run Software Updates.

 

[ebouwman]

That might do something with that. I just leave my laptops idle when I run Software Updates.

i'm almost allways doing something when i'm updating because i only get updates when i'm using my computer, i don't stop what i'm doing just because an update started loading, but i do shut down all of my apps before i shut down.