[G4] Spinning Beachball

[Richard Klein]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Dan A. Currie <dancurr at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am driving an MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / 2 - 120 GB and 1 - 200 GB HDD
> / NETSCAPE 9.0.0.6 / OS X.4.11 and of late my beachball has been spinning a
> lot more that ever before.
>
> It spins for no rhyme or reason that I can discern - I click on a folder on
> my desktop it spins, I open an application that I routinely use and it spins
> and the same with an application that I rarely use, I click on a website in
> Yahoo or any other search engine or browser and it spins and I click on an
> image and it spins, I click to send email and it spins!!!

It probably has nothing to do with your problem, but my FW800 (an MDD
with dual 1.42GHz) has a Radeon 9800 video card that needs a drive
power connector plugged into it.  I have to be really careful of where
that power cable is routed when I close the case - if it's not routed
just right, I get that same spinning-beachball-for-no-reason behavior.

-- 
Rich