<DIV>Hi Brian,</DIV>
<DIV>Unfortunately, I have tried the force quit method and the computer does not respond. I am running 10.2.8 with 384mb.</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks!</DIV>
<DIV>Ronda<BR><BR><B><I>Brian Olesky <brian4@sbcglobal.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 3/8/05 8:10 PM, "R. Hefner" <RSHEFNER_UK@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>> Lately my iBook has been experiencing the endless spinning cursor<BR>> problem and the only thing I can do to get it to stop is push the off<BR>> button for a few secs and then reboot. I noticed this a few weeks ago<BR>> when I had a disk mounted and was trying to access the info on the disk.<BR>> Then this weekend I had the same problem when trying to access my<BR>> external drive. It only seems to happen in these two instances. Does<BR>> anyone know what causes this and what I should do? I was actually using<BR>> the external drive to backup all my mp3s etc. so I can upgrade from<BR>> Jaguar (10.2.8) to Panther. Might this upgrade fix my problem if I do a<BR>> clean install? BTW, I have run Disk Utility on both my drives and no<BR>> problems found.<BR>> Thanks in advance for any
help,<BR>> Ronda<BR>> <BR>> <BR>First off, you probably don't have to shut down. Most likely, just "force<BR>quitting" the active application will stop the spinning ball.<BR><BR>And second, how much Ram do you have? If you're working with the minimum,<BR>that could be your problem.<BR><BR>Brian<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>iBook mailing list<BR>iBook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com<BR>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook<BR><BR>Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff:<BR>http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com