G4 acting up

Snow White jj4 at sympatico.ca
Tue Feb 24 08:28:12 PST 2004


I have had weird issues in OS9.  OS9 corrupts a lot over time.  Take 
about 2 years and the OS stops functioning as it should. Slows down, 
loses a few prefs etc..  Bad RAM is a very common problem.  Run a RAM 
checker for 8 - 24 hours.

I highly recommend that, if possible you move into OSX 10.2 or later.  
If you have a second HD in there you can try it out without disturbing 
you current OS9 set-up.

jj

On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 08:25 AM, Power Macintosh G4 List 
wrote:

> Subject: [G4] G4 acting up
>
> I have just begun to have some weird issues with my G4/400.  It
> started with my display settings getting lost when I start it up.
> Today, the whole display profile that I set up  was gone as well as
> the monitor that I use.  It wasn't listed in the display preferences.
> Also, the Pioneer DVD burner that I installed last week has been
> inconsistent ejecting CD's.  When I push the eject button on the
> keyboard, the cd is unmounted from the desktop, but the DVD rom
> doesn't spit it out.  When that happens, I can check it in the device
> manager and it shows up as not being supported for burning.  I can
> restart it and get it to work.  It even shows up as fully supported.
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
> P.S. I am running OS 9.2.8.



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