Paul Montgomery ([info]paradox0220) wrote,
@ 2009-06-10 14:29:00
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(*@#ing Apple and Mac OS 10.5.7!!!
"We don't sell Mac OS 10.5.6 anymore, we only sell 10.5.7!"

W...T...F... I'm very close to literally taking a baseball bat and smashing my Mac Pro to pieces. Not even joking. The representative suggested I go on EBay to try to find 10.5.6; how nice of Apple to take care of customers so well after breaking my computer with their recent update. I practically have an aluminum brick sitting here but maybe in a few weeks I can find some back alley copy of the software to fix a problem Apple directly caused. What BS.

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[info]ghewgill
2009-06-10 07:43 pm UTC (link)
What are the chances of WoW coming out with an update that fixes the problem in the very near future?

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[info]paradox0220
2009-06-10 08:21 pm UTC (link)
So WoW isn't the sole issue, other applications are failing. WoW worked fine before the update, hard locks after. Others report that other applications (which I don't use) cause the same exact problem.

I doubt WoW can fix it if the patch is just bad.

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[info]reanimated
2009-06-10 07:59 pm UTC (link)
really, why not take it to the WoW support people?

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[info]paradox0220
2009-06-10 08:23 pm UTC (link)
It has been discussed with them but it isn't a WoW issue (see note to Greg). It is a Mac patch issue. I suspect it only targets Gen 1 Mac Pros... maybe with specific video cards... who knows. The only common ground I've seen is Gen 1 Macs.

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[info]goulo
2009-06-11 12:04 pm UTC (link)
Just run Linux or something on the silly computer! :)

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[info]moonwick
2009-06-11 01:37 pm UTC (link)
You want me to dig up a 10.5.6 ISO? If you do an archive and install of it, there's no reason you should lose anything.

Edited at 2009-06-11 01:37 pm UTC

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[info]paradox0220
2009-06-11 03:23 pm UTC (link)
Well get this; the stored lied when I called about getting 10.5.6. They had lots of them. In fact, they do NOT have any 10.5.7 CDs so it was probably just complete laziness to actually look coupled with a big heaping of don't give a crap.

The card still hard locks when I do anything graphically intensive. I cleaned the dust out, moved it to a better air flow location etc but no dice. I can't find a utility on Mac to let me set the graphics card fan higher all the time like on Windows but I think the thing is damaged to some extent already.

Maybe it is time to go back to ATI but for some reason I remember those cards as being problematic too. Darnit, wish someone would make a reliable graphics card!

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