[iBook] Brrrrrr

[Rebecca Hoffman]

I maxed out the RAM when I bought it four years ago, so have added none 
since.

The drive was quite full until about two weeks ago when I moved a bunch 
of RAW photo files to a firewire drive. Now my 40GB hard drive has over 
11GB of free space.

If this problem gets no worse, I can live with it. I'm planning to buy 
a new computer in a few months when Apple releases Leopard; however, if 
this is a sign of impending doom, I'd be motivated to buy sooner.

Rebecca

On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Russ Gorman wrote:

> If there is added RAM - remove it and see if the problem stops. also, 
> make sure your drive is not full.
>
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Rebecca Hoffman wrote:
>
>> I have a G3 800GHz iBook running OS10.3.9.
>>
>> It's been freezing; it stops responding to the tracpad or keyboard 
>> commands and I have to shut the computer down manually and reboot. 
>> This always happens when I set it down and walk away from it, even 
>> for a few minutes. It has never happened while I was actively working 
>> on anything. It has done this periodically for some time, but the 
>> problem is becoming more frequent.
>>
>> When this happened in the past I would run the Disk Utility on my 
>> install disks and then run Cocktail. After that it would run just 
>> fine and I would have no problem with it for weeks.
>>
>> It froze today; I ran Disk Utility and Cocktail and a few minutes 
>> later, it froze again.
>>
>> Is this a sign (from the great beyond or somewhere else) that I need 
>> to get a new computer?
>>
>> Rebecca
>> cold with fear in Portland
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> iBook mailing list
>> iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
>> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook
>>
>> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random 
>> stuff:
>>         http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984
>
>  Russ Gorman Photography
>  Portland Oregon
> <http://www.russgormanphotography.com>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> iBook mailing list
> iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook
>
> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random 
> stuff:
>         http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984
>
>
________________________________________________
"When a long train of abuses and usurpations [...] evinces a design to 
reduce them [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, 
it is their duty, to throw off such government.": - Thomas Jefferson, 
US Declaration of Independence