On Jul 16, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Ricardo Sevilla wrote:
> > Ok so I have a weird problem. I keep having my g4 either crash or > whatever on me. Here is the scenario as it has occured many times to > me > in just the past week. I have my g4 sawtooth that has been upgraded > to a > owc 1.2ghz processor with 2 gigs of ram. it has a 500 gig hdd and a > superdrive in it. so far the only thing that has not been upgraded is > the video card. I thought i would do it but I think i might have to do > this sooner than I planned. the problem happens rather frequently > now so > it is time to dedicate some serious time and money (if I have to) to > fix > this problem. I will turn on my computer and everything appears > normal. > except for the fact that my external hdd takes about a year and a half > to mount on my desktop if it ever does decide to mount. Sometimes, this could mean the HD is going / gone bad. Will it startup from the OS X DVD? You can also e-mail Seagate Support and give them the model number of the drive. to see if its one that had bad firmware ... but I don't think the 500GB ATAs did (mine did not). I would reseat the ATA cable connectors, and see if that solves the problems. Make sure it is properly jumpered (I believe the safe setting for a single Seagate drive is Master). Also would try another HD, physically in place of the current one. Sometimes bad RAM can disguise itself in a number of ways ... you might remove all but one stick to see if it starts up. Just guessing as to what I would do ... didn't you have this problem a few weeks ago? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
