If I had to venture a guess... Turn off the screen saver and see if it stops locking up. A lot of the OSX screen savers use opengl - and if there's a problem with the graphics card, it could tickle it in the wrong way.
-- Brielle Bruns http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org -----Original Message----- From: Dan <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 14:22:27 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)? At 1:05 PM -0400 6/5/2011, John Callahan wrote: >My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running >it freezes and a message comes up that says "you need to restart >your computer". Anyone have any idea of what's wrong? That's a kernel panic. Check the system.log and panic log files to see exactly what died. Have you made any hardware changes to your system recently? Do you have any tasks that explicitly run when you're idle? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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
