Beach ball of death |
September, 04, 2003 9:50 AM |
fixitjc |
updating a 7300 G4/400 - 320 meg RAM (5 - 64's) 9 + 4 GIG SCSI hard drives, Generic USB 1 card and ethernet card. worked fine in 9.1 and install of Jag - 10.2 went with out a flaw. instalization of all software went with out a hitch. Now when the machine is on for a while some times minuits sometines hours, it will suddenly freeze it doesn't matter if it is solitare or System profiler or any other program, you will try to click on something and the mouse will have no effect and then go to the spinning beach ball. I suspect the memory and am going to switch it out with some I have here .... any other suggestions. Also going to remove the ethernet card since it is not needed Thanks Jim |
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Successfuly defeated the Beach ball of death |
September, 09, 2003 10:00 PM |
fixitjc |
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It was the RAM..... After trying just about every combination of RAM / slots I replaced it with 2-128's (OWC) and a 64 that I had in another machine. Now all is well. |
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RE: Beach ball of death |
September, 05, 2003 11:09 PM |
fixitjc |
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Update still no joy ... Ran all the updates and have played musical Dimms with all the memory. the 128 works the best but not perfect. next I'll try switching logicboards maybe I have a bad board |
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RE: Beach ball of death |
September, 05, 2003 9:27 AM |
jseibyl |
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I am out for a while, sounds like you are on top of it...good luck |
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RE: Beach ball of death |
September, 04, 2003 10:25 PM |
fixitjc |
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Using L2 cash Confif, always run Disk utility /repair permissions as soon as I can after an install and have run fsck in single user mode. have removed the ethernet card, and have begun switching RAM around , have replaced 2 - 64's with a single 128 (tested good) and am on the second rotation and so far no lockups had lockup on first rotationso the Dimm lying on the work bench with a postit on it at the moment may be the bad one. we'll see. need to get it connected to the internet so I can update the system software. I'll keep you posted my personel machine is an 8500/500/G4 - 384 MEG RAM multipul SCSI hard drives , burner and CD drive |
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RE: Beach ball of death |
September, 04, 2003 11:45 AM |
jseibyl |
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BTW- what is the cache on that g4. should be L2, but if for some reason it has L3, that could be the prob right there. I don't know of any g4 400 chips with L3, but it doesn't hurt to ask..... |
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RE: Beach ball of death |
September, 04, 2003 10:21 AM |
jseibyl |
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There might be some cron scripts running in the background. Can you hear your disk spinning away?? I use a utility called Cocktail to run them manually, they are just timing execution matenience sort of things. They can be shut down, but not exactly sure how to do that from the terminal yet....anyone?? Also, you could try to repair permissions, it is in the disk utility of OSX. I have also run Disk Warrior from the CD, and fixed a similar prob I had on my 8500 a while back. The version that is one back from the current one......sorry don't know the number being at work.....works on a OSX disk, it takes a little while longer than an os9 disk but saved me from the perpetual beach ball....... |