beachballs.. beachballs.. beachballs... beachballs in new MBP

[mrbigstuff]

I have not updated to SL but this may force my hand.

specs: MBP 13" 2.26ghz 2gb RAM, 10.5.7

I get the balls mostly when surfing, and just dinky bandwidth pages like this... what gives?

[SteveO]

That is odd. I'd try upgrading to 10.5.8 (I'm on a BMB, 10.5.8, 4gb RAM, no balls). Done the usual Onyx / Cache Out / AppleJack utilities?

If still no luck, archive and install or nuke and pave. Back up before either.

[bfd]

bfd's MBP exhibited a similar problem; it turned out to be a stick of memory gone bad. Took forever to ferret out the problem. Try running the memory test on the startup disk.

[mrbigstuff]

thanks, bfd and SteveO. I'll run the tests when I can.

[SteveO]

mrbigstuff wrote:
thanks, bfd and SteveO. I'll run the tests when I can.

Sure thing. May also try reseating the RAM and running the apple hardware test disc if you have one.