[G4] Spinning Beach Ball for Everything - HELP ! ! !

[B G]

I had the same problem on one of my machines.

There are posting on the web and at Apple support.

I cannot for the life of me remember exactly how I solved the problem.

I know it involved force quitting the Task Manager using the Activity  
Momitor. there were other steps involved, sorry you will have to do  
the internet search thingy.


BG


On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:51 AM, J.R.Rosen wrote:

> GOOD AFTERNOON LISTERS !
>
> I have a G4-1gHz-MP (2002 Quicksilver), running 10.4.11 (8S165) with  
> 1.5GB RAM.  I performed the security updates last week, along with  
> the iTunes 8.0 update so I could load the latest iPhone software  
> update.
>
> All was great until this morning... for no certain reason everything  
> came to a screeching halt when everything I clicked on turned into a  
> beach ball!  The beach balls are spinning from 15 seconds up to   
> minute - this is very frustrating!  Just scrolling down an email  
> causes a beach ball!
>
> I am in Houston where we just finished with a hurricane, and our DSL  
> is kind-of "iffy" right now.  I unplugged the computer and moved it  
> to high-ground during the storm, and there was no damage  
> whatsoever.  When I plugged it back in on Monday (9/15), it told me  
> that the date/time was not correct, but it performed very well up  
> until today (9/17).  I do not turn-off the computer, I just log-out  
> in the evenings.  Yes, it's on a surge-protector.
>
> I have restarted into single user mode and run Applejack - all OK.   
> Then no changes, so I went into single user mode and just ran a  
> "fsck -f"... once again A-OK!
>
> Pulled up Activity Monitor... "kernel_task" is the memory-hog @  
> 109.41mb of "real" memory and 1.05gb of "virtual" memory.  I did a  
> google-search for kernel_task and got a "geek-report" that actually  
> said nothing in layman's terms.
>
> Could this be a battery problem?  If not, any ideas would be  
> appreciated.
>
> Please help... I'm pulling out my hair at an alarming rate... this  
> is very frustrating!
>
> THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP ! ! !
>
> J. R. Rosen
> Armadillo Press-Printing & Graphics
> 305 Wells Fargo Dr., Suite 4
> Houston, TX 77090
> 281-586-9383 (phone)
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> jrosen82 at sbcglobal.net
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> www.armadillo-press.com
>
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