Lacy Kyle wrote: > Please, please help. I have a bog standard 450 cube except for 448M > ram. I have finally took the plunge and upgraded to OSX 10.2. My > machine now locks up after about 5 to 10 minutes use. Can't seem to > detect any pattern in it, it does it with all sorts of applications and > makes no difference whether or not I'm connected to the net or not./ > Most of the time it just freezes and will not respond to anything, > other times (but much less frequent, I get that pretty coloured beach > ball thing......but still no response to anything, not even force > quit.....Please forgive any typo's, I'm trying to get this mail sent > before the damn thing locks again!!!!! > > > Lacy It may be your extra memory. OSX is much more picky about marginal memory than OS9. If your extra memory SIMM is after-market, I'd definitely suspect it. Try backing it out and rebooting. -- J.C. Webber III Technical Lead, Unix System Administrator jcw at kingoblio.com (home) www.kingoblio.com