[G4] Re: G4 Digest, Vol 56, Issue 11

[Eric Wood]

Am 30.04.2009 um 00:23 schrieb Andrea Studebaker:

> Thank you Harry, Tom, Eric, Richard and John for your comments and  
> suggestions.
>
> One thing I forgot to mention in my earlier post is that I almost  
> always have a problem playing videos.  They will play for a short  
> time, between one and one and a half minutes, and then I get the  
> circle of spinning circles in the center of the frame, as though  
> it's loading, and it never stops.  This is a real problem, because  
> in my duties as an admin on my message board I need to view and  
> comment on many videos.
>
> I just had a typical problem.  If you can tell me which log to look  
> in, and/or what might be significant, I can post it.  I don't want  
> to clog up the list with a bunch of stuff that might be irrelevant.
>
> In any event, here is what happened.  I left the computer on with a  
> couple finder windows open where I had been looking at various  
> logs, but no applications running.  I was gone about six hours.  I  
> came home and moved the mouse to wake up the computer.  The screen  
> came up and it looked fine.  Although I could move the cursor,  
> everything was non-responsive.  Couldn't click on anything at all.   
> I hit the little button below the power button to restart the  
> machine (the reset button?).  It came back up and everything was  
> fine, but I know you are not supposed to do that often.  I've had  
> to do it so much the last couple months.  The problems seemed to  
> start around the time the original hard drive died. It has been  
> replaced and the problem continues, though less often.
>
> Thanks again,
> Andrea

I love that, my name aside, you're talking to Tom, Dick and Harry.  
But anyway..

Can you test whether your computer becomes non-responsive in a  
different Mac OS installation? I've found what sounds like your  
problem here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9398245
The final suggestion there is that it may be a flakey sick of RAM.

Eric W.
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