On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 11:13 PM, Gene Osburn wrote:
> > Now, after extended periods of use (2-3 hours), the system tends to > freeze on me....in OS X, no less! No force quit or other keyboard combo > works - frozen tight. I have to turn the machine off with the rear > power switch before I can restart. I thought hard crashes were > virtually unheard of in OS X...? > .....you could be overheating your system...I had a DT G3 that overheated with 3 vidoe coards in it...had to remove the heat sink from the processor annd replace it with a heatsink/fan (pentium 2 style). Also, try reseating your RAM, proccessor, and expansion cards...are you sure you have the jumpers set correctly for the processor as well...my B&W locks up if I have my g4/450 clocked up at all because of overheating...wish I could tell you more but I have only been working with (newer) Macs for saabout 4 yrs and haven't had a lot of problems with them. Also, does your machine do this in 9? More info would help pipoint the problem... ' Josh -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
