Filed under: Tricks | Tags: Mac, restart, Snow Leopard, system freeze, USB Hub, what to do
My MacBook Pro froze again today. As far as I can tell, the source of the problem is my Griffiin Simplifi iPhone dock. I have attached a Western Digital Passport Elite to it and it was low on power. Meanwhile Time Machine is running, so the power-shortage caused serious data corruption and confused the poor Snow Leopard to the point that even Command-Option-Escape no longer works.
Of course I was frustrated, especially considering this is not the first time this has happened. Should I manually restart it by holding down the power button? It could mess up the system further.
Instead, I decided to worry about the problem later and simply closed the lid of my MacBook. Who would have thought that after I opened it up again, things more or less to normal!
Apparently this Snow Leopard is smarter than I have thought.
