[iBook] endless spinning cursor

[Brian Olesky]

On 3/8/05 8:10 PM, "R. Hefner" <rshefner_uk at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Lately my iBook has been experiencing the endless spinning cursor
> problem and the only thing I can do to get it to stop is push the off
> button for a few secs and then reboot. I noticed this a few weeks ago
> when I had a disk mounted and was trying to access the info on the disk.
> Then this weekend I had the same problem when trying to access my
> external drive. It only seems to happen in these two instances. Does
> anyone know what causes this and what I should do? I was actually using
> the external drive to backup all my mp3s etc. so I can upgrade from
> Jaguar (10.2.8) to Panther. Might this upgrade fix my problem if I do a
> clean install? BTW, I have run Disk Utility on both my drives and no
> problems found.
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Ronda
> 
> 
First off, you probably don't have to shut down. Most likely, just "force
quitting" the active application will stop the spinning ball.

And second, how much Ram do you have? If you're working with the minimum,
that could be your problem.

Brian