10.3: A workaround for display stalls in Peak 4.03

Feb 02, '04 10:48:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

For a long while since I upgraded to Panther, I have been having severe display halts while using Bias Peak 4.03, a professional audio waveform application. The cursor would scroll for 10 seconds, pause for three (with a spinning ball added for effect), and then continue five seconds ahead of where it stopped. Needless to say, this was less than ideal for audio editing.

The solution? Believe it or not, you must disable your Ethernet port. Go to System Preferences -> Network -> Network Port Configuration, and uncheck the box next to "Built-in Ethernet."

I don't know if this problem is isolated in Bias Peak, but I can say that several applications that gave me spinning beach balls periodically before do not give me spinning beach balls when the ethernet port is completely disabled. Please let us know how this works for you, just in case there is an Ethernet issue in Panther that needs Apple's attention.

[robg adds: I don't have Bias Peak, so I can't test this one myself -- can anyone else confirm its validity?]

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