[G4] Upgrading a Quicksilver 2002 933

[Harry A Freeman]

Greetings Andrea ( + )!( + )

First of all I would suggest that you take a look at your "System and  
Console" log files, there should be some information in one of those  
logs as to what/why you are having problems.

Note the system time when your problems occur and then correlate that  
time to the log files.
When you find something suspicious you can post the log files here and  
perhaps someone can analyze the reason.

Cheers

Harry
San Jose, Ca
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On Apr 28, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Andrea Studebaker wrote:

> I've always received excellent advice from this list and I hope you  
> can help me again.  I've been getting conflicting advice from people  
> I trust.
>
> I have a Quicksilver 2002 933 with 1.5 gb RAM, two HDs, a newish 120  
> and a brand new 500, a USB 2.0 card I added, the original video card  
> and a second card I installed to run a second monitor (which is now  
> dying.)  I have a partition on the 120 running 10.4.11 and a  
> partition on the 500 running 10.5.6.
>
> I just want to get to where this thing will run smoothly in Leopard  
> for a couple more years until I can buy a newer (but not new) Mac  
> Pro.  I have a lot of problems with web-based games using Java (this  
> is just casual gaming at Pogo, no WOW or anything like that), more  
> so in Leopard than Tiger, and some random kernel panics and freezes  
> in both systems.  Also, when running in 10.5.6, the machine seems to  
> cycle in and out of sleep mode every few minutes when idle.
>
> I do a lot of web work, as I'm going to school online and also an  
> admin of an active message board.  Other than that, I do a little  
> basic office work, a good bit of PhotoShop, and I'm starting to  
> learn Illustrator.
>
> I've had some people tell me that upgrading to a dual 1ghz cpu,  
> which I can get on eBay for about $120-$130 is the way to go.   
> Others have said it won't make much difference.  Some have suggested  
> going for an upgrade to a 1.6 or 1.8 at OWC, but that is quite a lot  
> more money for this starving artist's budget ($250 - $400). I've  
> also had suggestions that I get a new video card, which I think  
> sounds like a good move, but there is only one choice at OWC and  
> it's $280 bucks.  Others say not much can be done.
>
> What suggestions would you have to get more reliable use from this  
> computer?  I don't think I need blazing fast speed, but I need more  
> stability.
>
> Thanks in advance.  If you need more info from me, I'll try to send  
> it back lickety-split.
>
> Andrea
>
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