On 02/09/2006, at 12:06, Daniel Gildenlow wrote: > I am getting sick and tired of both Logic and Mac. I am on my fifth > Mac by > now (a G5 dual 2 GHz Powermac - the first top model of G5, see > specs at This is anecdotal and probably not particularly helpful...but I wanted to relay to Daniel and others about a problem I had that just got solved. I've been using macs since the mid eighties, and have been with logic since version 2.0 or something....Over the last year or so however, Logic began to behave very badly, crashing very frequently and randomly. I attributed it to many things...I thought maybe one of the updates was buggy, or perhaps that I because I had hundreds of plug ins that that was the problem...I thought it might be my UAD card and my Powercore fighting with eachother...At any rate I never really sorted it out, and I just lived with it. And then I slowly discovered that I had two simultaneous and intermittent hardware faults in my studio that were causing complete mayhem. My MOTU 828 kind of silently went on the fritz and wouldn't clock correctly, so it was constantly crashing logic when the digital clock went sour. I swapped out my MOTU and a lot of my problems went away. Then within a week, I discovered through some obsessive detective work and help from my local Lacie repair guys that the power supply for one of my lacie hard drives was intermittently defective, and I replaced that too. Kaboom...it was so silly, but all my Logic problems disappeared *completely*...It's like I went back in time 5 years to the old days of logic when it never crashed at all. I guess the moral of the story for me was that I am so used to software failures, and so rarely see hardware problems that it never occured to me during a year of tweaking and re-installing and doing all the osx maintenance nonsense that I had some plain ordinary hardware glitches. It's like when I'm battling the computer, and my girlfriend walks in and says..."Did you try jiggling the cord?" and lo and behold...yup...the cord was loose...D'Oh! tom <><><><><><><><><>< ><><><><><><><> Tom Third Composer-Audio Post Production