On Dec 15, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: > Another thing I just realized I have been doing ... plugging / unplugging my > Firewire webcam while the system is booted up. > > Could that be a cause of my woes? Since Firewire is not hot-swappable?
FW was designed from the beginning to be hot-swappable. ONe of the first FW external drive reviews I read, the reviewers unplugged it mid-write, thne plugged it back in...the system continued writing. > > I saw one time in my system log, that an Ecamm plugin was somewhat confused > (I think) This is possible > > Maybe the cpu has just gone bad. Unlikely, it would just freeze. Is the mouse pointer frozen when the Finder freezes? Are you seeing a SPOD? Can you command-tap to other running programs when this happens? Send me your system and panic logs, (off list obviously!) so I can take a look. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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
