my Mac G5 froze

Barry Garsson · #1 November 10th, 2006, 07:31 AM

I just finished burning some music to a CD. The system froze - I was able to operate the CD eject (from the keyboard) but nothing else. The mouse was inoperable. I had to turn the power off and reboot. I thought this only happens in Windows. Can anyone please explain what is happening here?
Barry

lucidmcmillan · #2 November 10th, 2006, 08:20 AM

This does still happen on macs, just not as much. The complexity of modern Operating Systems makes it all but impossible to build an entirely stable System. Plus when you take into account Hardware errors, crashes are going to happen. It's just damage limitation.

bobw · #3 November 10th, 2006, 08:58 AM

You might want to use a program like Onyx, Yasu or Cocktail to perform basic maintanance on your machine.

Barry Garsson · #4 November 10th, 2006, 01:10 PM

Thanks everyone, guess I shouldn't complain too much, the Mac has been pretty seamless otherwise. I'll look at those maintenance programs.
Barry