>I am new to the list and searched it out because of the need for >reassurance and a few answers. Just got a new G4 Dual 1.0 a few weeks >ago and passed on my upgraded G3 Beige to a nephew.
>2. I thought this was the uncrashable OS. I am getting one or two >freezes(endless spinning beach ball) a day that are so profound that >even the power button on the front does not work. Make sure you are using the latest versions and patches on everything- including the OS.OSX development is going so fast right now that leaps in stability for the OS and apps are happening pretty fast. The instability you describe was the norm for me until is started following the procedure listed below along with making sure I was running latest patches and service packs.. >Occasionally I can >save it by restarting the finder, but usually I have to reach in the >back and unplug it to reboot. Is this unusual behavior? I do not have >much on it yet. I have not connected it to any particular sequence of >actions yet. Could it be a hardware problem? I have added some memory, >but it started crashing when all the memory was the Apple store stuff. You could be having hardware problems and chasing down that path is a good idea but I would be sure to work out the software problems to make sure that end of things is handled as well. I suspect more than one thing is going on here especially if memory is crashing the box leaving the OS or file system damaged in some way.. TechTool might be able to diagnose the memory too.. Here's what I do- Chuck's OSX Preventative Maintenance procedure- Every Day- Back up Every week- Run applications->utilities->Disk utility->First aid-> repair disk permissions Every two weeks- (run these under OS9 booting from the CD of the product) Run DiskWarrior from Alsoft version 2.1 or greater Run Techtool 3.0.8 or greater. Run it until the drive comes up clear of errors. Notes: I run with Journaling ON (the shareware prog Journalizer can help you turn it off and on if you are afraid of the command line.) this helps with additional procedures not outlined here for drive recovery. This is for 10.2.0 thru 10.2.3. Micromat, the maker of Techtool has a product called Drive 10. It works fine and is an OSX bootable CD but it is not as full featured as Techtool Pro 3.0.8 as of this writing. Disk Doctor 7.0 or greater can be run too. (Some report problems with it. I have never experienced an issue using it.) Also get a good book like MacOSX- The Missing Manual from Pogue Press. All of this information is in there. There is a tremendous amount of great stuff in these books that really unleashes the power of the OS for you. Other drive recovery and maintenance methods including fsck from single user console mode and safe boot are outlined there. That's it. Since I started following this things have been running very nicely. -- Thanks, Chuck Leavens Director of Engineering and I.T. WDUQ FM Duquesne University Pittsburgh PA 412-396-5508 -- 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> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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 Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
