[G4] Regular Disk & OS Maintenance?

[Frank Sudore]

Apple Jack & Disk Warrior in extreme circumstances.
Frank
On Jan 16, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> Hello All -
>
> I have not been doing my regular maintenance very regularly, and  
> may now be suffering from it. The Mac is a little flaky (a little  
> slow, some spinning beach balls, Preview not wanting to open files  
> the other day, had to force quit), and today the monitor just  
> started flashing on/off, on/off. Uh, oh. I don't think it's the  
> monitor because the mouse (a Targus fiber-optic one plugged into  
> the keyboard USB port) was flashing on/off too.
>
> I have a Diskwarrior update on order from Aldus, but that takes a  
> couple weeks, so they say.
>
> If it goes ga-ga again guess I'll call around and try to get a  
> Techtool or Norton (would prefer the former) to see what's up.
>
> I did boot up on the Jaguar CD to run Disk Utility both to fix  
> permissions and do a disk repair. Don't know if the errors it found  
> were serious or not. It did say "Disk Repaired."
>
> Did not do Apple Hardware Test as the CD is old (2001) and came  
> with original OS 10.1.1? Should do? Should d/l one from somewhere?  
> Doesn't matter what OS because we are talking about hardware? Also  
> did not do as would have to unplug everything and yank the internal  
> memory card and PCI card (ugh) but will do if you guys say I must.
>
> What should I be doing on a regular basis? Using my Macjanitor MORE  
> often, I would think - daily? weekly?
>
> Using Diskwarrior every month?
>
> What do you all do?
>
> If the drive crashes altogether, well, it's a 4-year-old computer,  
> it'll be time for a new one. Files all backed up pretty much daily.  
> So it wouldn't be too bad.
>
> All advice and even wagging tongues invited and gratefully received.
>
> P.S.: Does it sound like a kernal panic? I haven't had one of those  
> since I installed Jaguar so have sort of forgotten what they are  
> like. Don't they involve scrolling shell commands on screen? This  
> was none of those, it seemed like the computer thought it was a  
> neon light for an inner city hotel.
>
> Anne Keller Smith
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