[X Newbies] Bleach Ball wait states on G3 and G4 Macintosh's.

[Birgit Rhoads]

Me too...what is a Cuda?  I don't have beach balls all that often, and if I
do do, I hit escape and try again.

Birgit 



> From: "Thomas J. Lane" <tommylane at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: "Mac OS X Newbies" <X-Newbies at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:00:56 -0500
> To: "Mac OS X Newbies" <X-Newbies at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [X Newbies] Bleach Ball wait states on G3 and G4 Macintosh's.
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, but what is Cuda?  Thanks.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
>> Just a few questions if you all don't mind.
>> 
>> I have a Blue and White G3 450 and I was, for at least 3 months, having
>> constant Beach Ball wait cursor.  Just using the file menu to open a file
>> would cause a wait cursor when nothing else in the application was active.
>> 
>> I was reading from the Apple email list in the B&W forum that when you
>> install new hardware you should reset the cuda.  Now I have had Macs before
>> this and I just really did not think much of the Cuda on something as new
>> world as the B&W.
>> 
>> I opened the case and to my amazement, after holding the Cuda down for 60
>> seconds, when I booted I rarely saw wait cursors anymore.  Now Photoshop
>> opens three times faster.
>> 
>> So down to my question.
>> 
> 
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