[G4] Spinning Beachball

[Dan A. Currie]

Richard Klein wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Good thought but my cords have been in exactly the same place since my 
wife moved me into my closet ... mancave.