On Jul 16, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Ricardo Sevilla wrote: > because the mouse will appear on the screen but nothing > else will show up.
> while it "freezes" the mouse still appears and is moveable and > controllable > but nothing else is. I believe this ability to move the cursor without any action, is a sign that the System HD isn't active any longer. When I used to boot from external Firewire HDs sometimes the connection to the HD would fail, and if I hot-re-plugged the Firewire cable or cycled the power to the Firewire enclosure, or both, sometimes the System would spring back to life again. If this only happens after sleep, you should either uncheck the option to "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" in the Energy Saver preferences, or disable sleep completely. I never use sleep on any of my Macs, so sleep was not a cause of the similar issue I've seen with Firewire HDs, but I'm almost certain your issue is the System HD not waking and being off-line to the System. If you need sleep, you might restart once in Safe Boot by hold the shift key at startup which will rebuild the cache files. Then boot again normally and see if that helps? I wouldn't hold my breath. Another thought: If your 500GB HD is a Seagate, some of these had bad firmware that was causing problems. AFAIK you'd need a PC to upgrade the firmware. Here's a website to check for bad Seagate HDs: <http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931#Id109278 > You'd get a lot better System response if you got a new video card to replace the AGP Rage Pro. There are AGP cards that support Quartz Extreme & Core Image/Animation that will give your System a boost almost as great as the CPU upgrade. I don't believe the Rage card has anything to do which this dynamic "freeze" you're experiencing, but I do know a new card would dramatically speed up even common things like scrolling large complex webpages. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
