[G4] Beige G3 OS X Freezing

[s*]

Thanks for the advice.  I am definitely going to try to get my hands on some
more RAM.

So far in my G3 I have an 80 gig drive in there right now partioned into
two.  7gb's for the system drive and the rest for files.  I have a
Villagetronic 8mb PCI video card in it, a Firewire card and a USB card in
it.  I have had it running Jaguar for over a year now but, I notice that
every so often (usually after no one has touched it for about an hour or so)
that the screen will lock up.  I have resently reformatted and reinstalled
OS X on it.  I used to use a USB mouse but, I notice that it would just stop
working after a while so, I went back to the serial mouse.  I am only using
it as a server for my girlfriend and myself.  I'd like to resolve this
freezing problem if I can.  I'd also like to find out, if there is a way to
boot a G3 without a monitor and still be able to control it remotely?  Being
able to put this big beast somewhere and not have a monitor hooked up to it
all the time would be nice.

-s*

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Snoke" <snokejs at npt.nuwc.navy.mil>
To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
<g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [G4] Beige G3 OS X Freezing


> I also have a beige G3 @266MHz. I bumped the processor to a G4, and can
only
> get it up to OS X 10.2.7.  My best advice to you would be to max out the
ram
> (896M, IIRC??? At least go to three 256M chips), and look at how full your
> hard drive is...  Keep in mind that any flavor of Unix uses the hard drive
> extensively for swap space - so that could affect this.  A large drive is
a
> good thing.  For this system, it needs to be partitioned (IIRC) so that
the
> OS is in the first 4GB of the drive.
>
>
> > From: s* <scart at sympatico.ca>
> > Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers."
> > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:27:57 -0400
> > To: "'A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers.'"
> > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> > Subject: RE: [G4] Beige G3 OS X Freezing
> >
> > OK, I lowered the screen res.  If I come across more low profile RAM for
> > cheap, I'll pop some in.  Thanks for the advice.  Very much appreciated.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> > [mailto:g4-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Harry
> > Freeman
> > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 4:38 PM
> > To: A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers.
> > Subject: Re: [G4] Beige G3 OS X Freezing
> >
> > Greetings ( + )!( + )
> >
> > On Oct 23, 2005, at 8:18 AM, s* wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a beige G3 266 running OS 10.2.8 and has 256mb's of RAM.  I
> >> notice that It often likes to freeze up after about an hour or so of
> >> inactivity.  I have turned the power saving features off and the
> >> screen saver off and it still freezes up.  Any
> >> suggestions?_______________________________________________
> >
> > My G3 DT does the freeze when I have the video set to high and at
> > millions
> > of color. Try setting to a lower resolution and use "Thousands" of
> > colors.
> >
> > Also more ram will help.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards, /\*_*/\
> >
> > Harry (*^_^*)
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