On Oct 18, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Kyle Parish wrote:
> > Try resetting the pram. Which will do not a single damn thing. > > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Laura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> As you can see by my below specs my imac is pretty maxed out. >> Lately I have been having problems watching tv shows in itunes. >> For a few minutes its fine, then eventually the cpu starts maxing out >> and the video kind of slows down - sound is still there. >> I pause it, wait a minute then it works fine for like 5 or 10 >> minutes, >> then it maxes out again. >> I am running no other programs. >> Any ideas would be appreciated. Laura, look in the Console at the system messages, see if there are errors being reported at the time you're slowing down. ISP speeds have got nothing to do with watching TV shows in iTunes, unless you're trying to watch them as they download. Shows in iTunes, like songs in iTunes are downloaded in their entirety to your computer. Watching the cpu will probably show it pegged the whole time, as iTunes video is quite CPU intensive. If your hard drive is having problems, this could cause it, as well. I'd check the SMART status with Disk Utility and/or boot from your OS disks and repair your hard drive. Is the RAM upgrade new? I'd get Memtest and run it...you might have faulty RAM. Since it's a 'lately' thing I'd try to isolate what has changed..new programs? new iTunes? Seeveral updates to iTunes have come out recently, I'd look to Apple's forums to see if there were issues with video playback. Do copies of shows that ran ok before now exhibit the same behavior or is it just the newer episodes? -- Bruce Johnson "No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
