Scott, To me, what you describe is a week power supply, or some other component that is failing and loading the power supply down to where it is causing unrelated malfunctions. Best guess is the power supply.
Jim F > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
