Hello I'd appreciate any suggestions re almost daily freezes. Only occurs 1-2x per day, but that's enough!
I run my office on a B&W G3 450mhz, 512mb RAM, rev 2 (IDE controller chip ends in "402"), OS 9.2.2; 30GB maxtor on drive 0 (startup drive), and 20GB drive on drive 1, another in the zip slot. I've tried just having a 2nd HD in the zip slot, and not using IDE1, but get freezes anyway. I've seen it reported that rev 2 machines don't have the IDE drive issues of the rev 1 machines, but I'm wondering if this is true. Generally I'm running Filemaker Pro 5.5, Architext (an orphaned legacy hypertext app), iTunes or SoundApp, and WriteNow (yes I love my legacy apps). Switching to different HD's didn't make a difference. I *think* the problem is Filemaker when it writes database updates to the HD, although I have not yet been successful in finding any documentation of this issue. Freezes occur usually while entering text into a FMPro field, but can also occur while entering text in WriteNow. FMPro saves changes to disk periodically, and could be writing to the HD while WriteNow is the foreground. I do alot of pasting between WriteNow and FileMaker. After a freeze, the filemaker file that was being worked on is occasionally corrupted, although (so far) completely recoverable by FMPro's recovery utility - except for the last entry. Once the Mac is frozen, the keyboard and mouse are totally unresponsive, except to do a restart, and not always that either. It could be unrelated, but I've got 2 keyboards and 2 trackballs on the ADB chain, and probably a longer run of cable than is recommended (computer is the other side of an office wall, with monitors and keyboards/trackballs on either side. I usually run iTunes 2.06 in the background as well. I tried switching to SoundApp (small and very stable), but the freezes still occur. I moved the mp3's to one of the backup HD's to see if this would help. It didn't. Thanks, Barry Levine -- 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
