[G4] Beige G3 OS X Freezing

[Roger Harris]

I concur, I cannot let mine sleep or it won't wake.

Roger


On Oct 24, 2005, at 9:03 AM, William Wiseman wrote:

> I'm running about the same system, except I'm using XPostFacto and  
> 10.3. My G3 has 768MB RAM, 8GB SCSI drive for the system, and an  
> 80GB for everything else. I have an Orange Micro USB card, generic  
> Firewire card, and a Belkin wireless card installed, alond with a  
> Daystar G4/433 upgrade. This is used only as a print & file server.
>
> I had some freeze problems with 10.2 but none under 10.3. I never  
> did completely resolve the problems. But one thing that did help  
> was to set the G3 NOT to sleep or auto-shutdown. About 1/2 the time  
> it froze rather than slept.
>
>  I remote control the G3 with VNC, using Chicken of the VNCon my  
> mini and iBook and OSXvnc on the G3.
>
> JeffW.
>
> On Oct 24, 2005, at 8:37 AM, s* wrote:
>
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
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