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"
>
> >
>

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