[G4] Spinning Beachball

[Luke Rademacher]

Also the spinning BEach ball will appear when your CPU's are being  
used for processes that under normal circumstances wouldnt affect the  
speed.

You might try to run Apple Hardware Test and see what it says...

Goo Luck,


Luke Rademacher
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Mac mini 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 80GB HD, Combo DVD/CDRW,  
Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.4, ext NewerTech miniStack w/ 320GB HD.
MDD Dual 1.25Ghz G4, 2GB RAM, 250GB/120GB/80GB HD's, 16x DL DVD±R/RW  
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On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:10 PM, 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.
>
> -- 
> Rich
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