<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>by 'peg' I assume you mean that I exceeded it's read/write capacity..</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>yeah, I think so, too.. I wasn't using Roxio or Popcorn...once it happened while I was asleep, but the first time, I was accessing web pages using Firefox, and I noticed a lot of hard drive chatter right when that freeze happened...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hmm...guess the fix is to lighten up on disc activity? Odd, because I have breezed right through WAY heavier loads on the mighty mini, with no troubles at all!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 12, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Michael Winter wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">I think you may have pegged it with the external drive. I don't know what the deal is, but it happens occasionally to me too. I've only tried a couple times, but turning off the power to the external drive for a bit (generally not something you want to do) freed up all the applications and everything went back to working normally, except for whatever operation was trying to access that drive at the time failed.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Gill Sans; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Gill Sans" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Gill Sans">Actually, now that I think about it, I think it only happened when I was using Roxio Toast or Popcorn and it resulted in a failed burn. Were you using either of those?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>