Clark - I shut it down then started it back up. Now the hard drive and dvdrw work! Is this whole thing something that I should worry about i mean we have figured out that it isn't the drives and that it is the computer itself... I do run the computer constantly, but it had only been running for like 4 days.-Jonas
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jonas Ulrich <[email protected]>wrote: > I will try that... I did look in the profiler and nothing on that ata > showed up. > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Jonas Ulrich wrote: >> > As i noted in my original post i've done that twice. >> > -Jonas >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Clark Martin <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > >> > Jonas Ulrich wrote: >> > > For use as my personal server I have a Digital Audio Powermac G4 >> > 533MHZ. >> > > 250GB, 80GB, 80GB 60GB HD's. 1.25GB Ram. Weird things are >> > happening. I >> > > was watching a movie and the screensaver started. I started the >> movie >> > > and again and it didn't do it again. Then tonight I was going to >> > copy a >> > > dvd and i went to the program and in the process of scanning the >> > dvd in >> > > the drive it froze up. So I force quit and then it wouldn't open >> > again. >> > > Then i relaunched the finder which also completely froze up. I >> Did a >> > > hard restart and when it started up i opened the program to copy >> the >> > > dvd. It opened but showed no dvd drive. then i realized that the >> dvd >> > > drive and the hard drive that share the same onboard ATA were not >> > there! >> > > I restarted again. Nothing. I have verified that the dvdrw drive >> > isn't >> > > getting power or at least i can't open it. Help would be greatly >> > > appreciated. I am actually going to be replacing this computer >> > with and >> > > Xserve soon. >> > > -Jonas >> > >> > Try doing a shutdown and start up. >> >> You say you've restarted, I'm suggesting you shut it down, power off. >> There is a difference. >> >> -- >> Clark Martin >> Redwood City, CA, USA >> Macintosh / Internet Consulting >> >> "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
