[X4U] Aggravatingly slow beach ball

[Jeff Carruthers]

On Oct 30, 2009, at 12:08 PM, LA Licata wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Have you shutdown for a period of minutes and pulled all power from  
> the unit?
>
> And, have you started up in safe mode?
>
> And, have you reset PRAM and NVRAM?
>
> Sometimes these works for me.
>
> Lee
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, at 1730, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm at wits end here. My 2.1 GHZ iMac G5 iSight running 10.4.11 with  
> RAM maxed at 2.5GB has become so slow to respond that it's  
> aggravating. The ......


Mark: good tips from Lee. I'd add a few of my own.

Since it's a G5 iMac, pulling the power plug and leave it unplugged  
for 10 minutes resets the PMU.

Have you tried booting the computer off another drive? If it still has  
problems, it's more likely a hardware problem -- perhaps Ram. In that  
case, I'd remove and reseat the Ram sticks one at a time and see if  
things get better. I have an iMac G5 and had problems that turned out  
to be a faulty Ram board (Apple replaced it under warranty).

If the external boot drive runs without problems, then you know that  
it's the software on your main drive. Then I'd do an Archive and  
install and see if that works.

One other problem might be software that you run all the time. Word  
has been giving me problems -- it becomes unresponsive at times and  
consumes a lot of CPU resources, slowing down everything.

Good luck.

Jeff
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