Mac Help

[SkyHog]

You know, for being the ultimate Operating System, I sure do have some weird issues that I never had with Windows...

Lately, when I try to restart my Mac, it gets to a point with a spinning circle thingie, and it never gets past it. I literally have to hold the power button in until the Mac shuts down.

Also - if the Mac goes into sleep mode, when it comes back, I cannot get it to connect to my network drives anymore. The drives show connected, but no files appear. If I dismount the network drive and try to remount, it hangs for more than 15 minutes without an error message.

This is a fairly fresh install of OSX. Any advice?

 

[EdFred]

Lies. There are never any problems with Macs - ever!

 

[Bob Noel]

Which Mac?

Which OS X version?

What kind of network? wireless? copper?

 

[SkyHog]

iMac OSX 10.5.8 Leopard.

Network is wireless 802.11g

Everything is fine until the Mac goes to sleep.

 

[rpadula]

Sounds like the two issues might be related. Can you shut down normally without any network drives mounted? Operating systems can give ridiculously long wait times for networks that aren't responding anymore...

 

[SkyHog]

Sounds like the two issues might be related. Can you shut down normally without any network drives mounted? Operating systems can give ridiculously long wait times for networks that aren't responding anymore...

I'll give this a shot when I get home.