On Feb 16, 2010, at 11:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 2/16/10 7:44:20 AM, [email protected] writes:
>I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is
>very slow compared to the other two. All machines have the same
>systems via CCC. The profiler specs are the same between the two
>600s. I'm kinda stumped as to what could be problem. Anyone else
>have this trouble?
Slow in exactly what way? From your description we can't tell if the
car won't go because it's missing a tire or if you left the garage
door closed.
The slow is a beach ball for a while before opening and closing files.
All three machines have the exact same HDD contents via CCC. All
machines have the same exact 1GB RAM I have run mantaintence on all
the iMac's Smart disk status is OK. One strange thing I do see on
the slow one is the display will shimmer ever so slighty, can that
be an indication of a crappy logic board?
2 separate issues. Beach ball slow before opening and closing files
points to HD problems. Waiting for the HD to spin up. Have you
checked the energy saver pane to see what the settings are? My bet is
a HD spin down on the slower machine and the beach ball is waiting
for the spin up.
That is ASSUMING that smart reporting is infallible. I would make
good backups of the slow machine and have a spare HD at the ready.
The shimmy I would guess is a bad crt, not logic board.
Len
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