On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dan<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> At 8:24 PM -0500 8/26/2009, Stephen Conrad wrote:
>>
>>OK, but if thats not my problem then what freezes up my machine when I
>>leave it un-used?
>
> sigh. You mention that you get the SPOD - typically a temporary
> condition, while the app waits for the resource to become available,
> and you asked about Dashboard. But nowhere in the thread did you
> mention your Mac was actually freezing to the point you had to
> restart it or that it did this while otherwise idle.
>
>>I have to restart it just to use it.
>>It did this today and all I had pulled up was the desktop, nothing else.
>>I did a check of both HDs earlier and they were fine. But just now it
>>said USS Akira (120 GB HD that is formated as Mac OS Extended
>>(Journaled) and has 111.5 GB free.
>>Could this be what is freezing my G4 (the problem with my 2nd HD)?
>
> A bad HD, especially the boot volume could certainly cause the apps
> or even the system to hang.... as threads stall out waiting for data
> from the drive....
>
> ...Note that we usually reserve the word "freeze" to mean that the
> mouse cursor does not move, and the system is totally unresponsive
> otherwise, even to keyboard activity, even after re-connecting the
> keyboard and mouse.
Whelp, the Sony VAIO rinitron monitor died last night but I hope the 4
USB ports still work on it (will check later).
I am now using an NEC CromaClear monitor.
However, I also ran Disk Utility and see that the HD that came with
this G4 (gotten from the LEM Swap List) is reporting a Fatal Hardware
Error.
I have backed it up with CCC and hope that works.
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