Mac Blackouts are usually hardware related and often usb related. If the dead usb port is not shorting check to see if it is damaged. USB's die from usb female plugs being forced in reversed. It can be done..... you may want to desolder the outlet. Run the mac on a separate account with minimal add-ons - this should prove stable if not
Double click on all hard discs - if they do not respond immediately check that "sleep hard discs" is off and check again... a drive may be on its way out. Then check ram - by softcheck if u have the software like tech tool, else remove most starting with minimum ram. Check by replacing external usb / fw cables. Cheers geoff b On 06 Jul 2009, at 3:00 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > My friends 1GHZ MDD isn't working. First safari randomly quits. So > I did all the updates and installed safari 4. So Safari seems to be > working and I'm downloading something and the crash thing comes up > and says "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power > button for several seconds or press the restart button." It has > plenty of ram to run Tiger. 1.38GB. One thing that I noticed is > that one of the built in USB ports completely doesn't work. Any ideas? > > -Jonas > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
