<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 9, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Swanson, Andrew C. wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">I’m typing this on a Dual 800 MHz PowerPC G4. (Yes, G4) Don’t even remember how old it is. Think I bought it in 2000 (or was it 2001). I’ve just learned this week that it is now obsolete. (The new version of iMovie requires a G5, if I read the specs right.) I’ll probably replace it soon, though not for that reason.... It has started shutting off randomly about once a week now. At first I wasn’t sure, because sometimes I would come back and it would be off instead of asleep. But then one day I was actually typing along and “click” - gone! As long as it’s happening only about once a week, I can live with it – eventually....<BR> <BR> Andy<BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Andy: have you changed the internal battery in the computer recently. That could cause it to act funny.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just did it to my G4 sawtooth -- it had shut down during a power failure and failed to reboot, as it was supposed to do.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just a thought.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff<BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-----------------------------------------------</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Carruthers Communications <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Tel: 520-625-1913</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">292 N. Camino del Vate, Green Valley, AZ 85614</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">www.carruthers.com<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>e-mail: <A href="mailto:jeff@carruthers.com">jeff@carruthers.com</A></FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>