> I have installed 10.2.2 from scratch on a seperate partition on my > iBook 12" 500MHz 320 MegRam. The install and the intenet update > tooks hours and hours to perform. The machine is crawling and top > says the cpu is like 85-95 % busy. > > The hardware CD check continues to show everything passed. > > When I boot into 9.2.2 everything is fine, nice and fast. Randy Singer has a tutorial on common OS X problems. He'd probably recommend that you run the Fix Permissions app that's on the Jaguar CD. You boot from the CD, Fix Permissions and the speed increase will blow your hair back ! Until you run through the common causes there's no reason to look for hardware problems. Jkirk I once thought about starting a club to discuss the philosophy of Fatalism. But then I realized that even if anyone came, they'd only come to steal the folding chairs.