Just a note after being out of the loop for a while here. Many of you
generously offered advice and support with my CRT iMac 400 DV recently.
The symptoms are: 1) after a half hour of inactivity, I get the "You
need to restart your computer. . ." warning message, and 2) I can get
nothing out of the firewire ports. These are likely unrelated, as the
firewire ports have been on the blink ever since I changed out my DOA
hard drive and loaded OS X two years ago. The crashing problem only
began a few weeks ago. One of you fixed me up with a take-apart manual
for this and it greatly simplified my surgery. My guess (hope?) was
that the hard drive was beginning to fail, even though it is, as I
stated earlier, only two years old. Well, the long and the short of it
is that changing the Samsung 40 gig HD with a new 80 gig Seagate HD did
nothing to fix the crashing problem. Same ol' same ol'. I guess I
shouldn't be surprised, because while loading up the new HD with an OS,
I slapped the old HD in a firewire enclosure and it ran fine, no
crashing at all, even after hours of being left on. Any ideas what
could cause the problems I'm experiencing here, folks? FWIW while I
had the thing apart, I tried re-seating the FW ports onto the mobo.
They weren't particularly loose, though. No change here, either. I
fear that my old faithful iMac is nearing it's useful end. Too bad,
the picture is still great. I figured it would be the first to go. . .
Thanks in advance.
Scott Birdwell
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