Thanks for your help everyone! It seems to be running good now... Hope it stays that way :-).-Jonas
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jonas Ulrich wrote: > > 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. > > Sometimes when the computer freezes or has other problems the power > management hardware gets in an "confused" state. The software can't > always clear it. Power down clears it. > > I've done it hundreds of times on G3 iMacs. It doesn't happen often but > when it does we just got use to yanking the power cord, doing a ten > count then plugging it back in and starting up again. With 200+ > computers even in frequent events happen often enough. > > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
