MicMeister
Le Skibum & Pixelsmith
Registered: 12/15/07
Posts: 1331
Loc: Finland, on the Arctic Circle
In what way does it lock up? Is it a plain screen freeze and no movement, not even the cursor? Or is there screen anomalities such as pixellation and/or breaking up etc. involved?
That might be an indication of hardware problems, such as faulty memory, faulty motherboard, faulty video...or the hard drive, even though apparently now resurrected with DW, might be toast and acting up.
Sometimes a clean install of the OS can help, too, if it is just a sw problem, especially in the case of classic OS, (OS 9 and earlier). But first, I'd run the Apple Hardware Tester fully, if you have it.
MacBozo Nut Dood
Registered: 04/21/02
Posts: 17694
Loc: Pinellas Park, Florida
I'm still thinking there is a hardware problem. Is it launching apps and opening files normally, or does it seem to take longer than it should sometimes (my wife's previous iMac did that just before her HD died). Considering the problems you were having before this week, that HD may be going bad.
Silver_Moon Record enthusiast
Registered: 09/15/09
Posts: 2519
Loc: Teetering between IL and AZ
Mac OS X 10.3 256 MB RAM (i think) 550 mHz G4 Gigabit Ethernet model 18.63 (20) GB HD wirh 5.5 GB left
The apps launch fine. It's pretty fast. rarely do I get the beachball.
What it does when it locks up: It's not 1 particlar app, I can be doing something in iTunes, Finder, etc. and the cursor and nothing else moves. If it was making a sound at that time it throws that sound into a loop. That's all I can think of now.
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MacBozo Nut Dood
Registered: 04/21/02
Posts: 17694
Loc: Pinellas Park, Florida
It really needs much more RAM for starters. I'm still thinking there is a problem with the HD. The freezes as you describe seem to be related to reading/writing virtual memory, which it will be doing nearly constantly with only 256 MB RAM.
Silver_Moon Record enthusiast
Registered: 09/15/09
Posts: 2519
Loc: Teetering between IL and AZ
Where cam you buy Tibook ram? and the chime sounds kind of fuzzy, but everything else is fine. Are HDs expensove? I really don't want to give up on my Tibook.
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MacBozo Nut Dood
Registered: 04/21/02
Posts: 17694
Loc: Pinellas Park, Florida
OWC has better prices on RAM. I'd recommend 2x512MB (1 GB) as a minimum which is the max for that machine. They also have HDs. I'm wondering if these TiBooks had the same HD volume limitation that my G4 tower had - 128GB max. If so, the largest drive you should consider is 120GB.
NewEgg has better drive deals. These are the 80GB models.
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