[G4] Beige G3 OS X Freezing

[William Wiseman]

I'm running about the same system, except I'm using XPostFacto and  
10.3. My G3 has 768MB RAM, 8GB SCSI drive for the system, and an 80GB  
for everything else. I have an Orange Micro USB card, generic  
Firewire card, and a Belkin wireless card installed, alond with a  
Daystar G4/433 upgrade. This is used only as a print & file server.

I had some freeze problems with 10.2 but none under 10.3. I never did  
completely resolve the problems. But one thing that did help was to  
set the G3 NOT to sleep or auto-shutdown. About 1/2 the time it froze  
rather than slept.

  I remote control the G3 with VNC, using Chicken of the VNCon my  
mini and iBook and OSXvnc on the G3.

JeffW.

On Oct 24, 2005, at 8:37 AM, s* wrote:


> Thanks for the advice.  I am definitely going to try to get my  
> hands on some
> more RAM.
>
> So far in my G3 I have an 80 gig drive in there right now partioned  
> into
> two.  7gb's for the system drive and the rest for files.  I have a
> Villagetronic 8mb PCI video card in it, a Firewire card and a USB  
> card in
> it.  I have had it running Jaguar for over a year now but, I notice  
> that
> every so often (usually after no one has touched it for about an  
> hour or so)
> that the screen will lock up.  I have resently reformatted and  
> reinstalled
> OS X on it.  I used to use a USB mouse but, I notice that it would  
> just stop
> working after a while so, I went back to the serial mouse.  I am  
> only using
> it as a server for my girlfriend and myself.  I'd like to resolve this
> freezing problem if I can.  I'd also like to find out, if there is  
> a way to
> boot a G3 without a monitor and still be able to control it  
> remotely?  Being
> able to put this big beast somewhere and not have a monitor hooked  
> up to it
> all the time would be nice.
>