A few months a go I took the machine all apart and cleaned EVERYTHING with an air compressor. I will run applejack and reset the pram when I get home. Thanks for the suggestion!
-Jonas On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Bill Connelly <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > > I've been running this MDD for about a year now with the same OS install >> of Mac OS 10.4 Server. Here are the specs: >> >> Dual 1GHZ G4 >> 2GB Ram >> 250GB HD >> 250GB HD >> 160GB HD >> 80GB HD >> DL Superdrive >> 64MB Video Card >> 3 PCI USB Cards >> >> Here is the problems I've been having: First Safari will randomly quit. >> Doesn't matter what I'm doing or what site, it just quits sometimes. >> Illustrator started doing the same thing, and for a while wouldn't open at >> all. Netzero.app wouldn't open for about five minutes, but now opens fine. >> Fetch suddenly quit, and wouldn't open for a while. I was testing some hard >> drives and opened disk utility. The first time, it only showed up with some >> of the hard drives. I quit it and came back it inconsistently will display >> all of the hard drives. Also, the other day, I opened a folder on one of the >> hard drives, and the finder relaunched. I went back and opened the same >> folder and it opened just fine. One more thing: I opened iTunes, and it >> wasn't like it was frozen, but i couldn't select the window. It was faded in >> the background like i was on another window and i couldn't select it. It >> wasn't frozen though, and I could move the window around. I quit it and came >> back and it works fine. >> >> Any Ideas? Thanks for the help in advanced! >> >> -Jonas >> > > I had similar behavior, and everything's fine now after reseating the RAM > (and testing). > > Might be a RAM issue. Have you reseated them recently, getting the dust > out? and/or tested them with applejack > memtest? > > Might be a hard drive going bad, too. Weird response from files on a disk > going bad ... > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
