[G4] CD Burn crashes Mac after burn

[CJ Scaminaci]

A way to check if it's software is by using Toast Lite. 
(http://www.roxio.com/) If then it still crashes, while burning a CD it 
could be a hardware problem. Your CD burner could be damaged or you 
could have bad memory which is causing a buffer problem. In the case of 
your mouse freezing, do you happen to have an apple pro mouse? If so, 
when this happens try unplugging and plugging back in your mouse. One 
way to tell if your machine is truly frozen is to turn on the seconds 
on your clock. Go to the Date & Time preference pane and select "Show 
time with seconds." If your clock stops "ticking" then your machine is 
probably frozen.In which case I would make a guess at bad memory. If 
you feel like testing your memory, check out MemTest. 
(http://friskythecat.tripod.com/) Currently it only runs command line 
with full instructions, but we are working on a GUI which should be out 
soon.

CJ
On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 09:09 AM, Ascender wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I have a 406 PowerMac G4; 800mh Quicksilver 2002.
>
> I am burning CDs to back up data (Quark/Word documents with extensive
> amounts of graphics) with the Mac "CD Burn" 1.0.2.
>
> One thing that I notice is that when it comes time to burn the 
> software the
> only way I can get it to do is to pull the cd to the trash; then it 
> offers
> to burn.  After burning a cd my computer locks up and I have to run 
> disc
> warrior.  Even after running it my curser will remain frozen in the 
> upper
> left hand corner and I will have to again do a hard restart.
>
> Do you happen to know if there are any conflicting software for CD 
> Burn that
> would cause this?
>
> Also; with this type of crash is there a way to know if the info on 
> the disc
> is corrupted before I throw the originals off my hard drive?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
>
> ascender at earthlink.net
>
>
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