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davidsax - May 22, 2005 - 3:19 pm
G5 - 10.3.9 - 768RAM(factory installed)
Frequently the Mighty G5 freezes, albeit at odd intervals. For example, I will be surfing/working with no problems and when I try to put the G5 to sleep, I get the spinning wheel and the only escape is the reboot w/power button. Can't see any correlation with a particular program. Was reading on the MacIntouch site a note from a guy who seemed to have the same troubles. After he spoke to AppleCare, "The Apple specialist thinks my firmware power management software has become corrupted."
I recently did an Archive & Install in trying to sort out another problem and this did not slove the freezing.
This is driving me crazy, and regretably, that's a short drive!
Would be very appreciative of your assistance
David
Frequently the Mighty G5 freezes, albeit at odd intervals. For example, I will be surfing/working with no problems and when I try to put the G5 to sleep, I get the spinning wheel and the only escape is the reboot w/power button. Can't see any correlation with a particular program. Was reading on the MacIntouch site a note from a guy who seemed to have the same troubles. After he spoke to AppleCare, "The Apple specialist thinks my firmware power management software has become corrupted."
I recently did an Archive & Install in trying to sort out another problem and this did not slove the freezing.
This is driving me crazy, and regretably, that's a short drive!
Would be very appreciative of your assistance
David
kainjow - May 22, 2005 - 6:43 pm
Hi David,
Do you have any other third party hardware connected to your computer (USB/FireWire drives, scanners, printers, etc)? Any PCI cards, newer graphics cards?
Kevin
Do you have any other third party hardware connected to your computer (USB/FireWire drives, scanners, printers, etc)? Any PCI cards, newer graphics cards?
Kevin
davidsax - May 23, 2005 - 6:30 am
Kevin,
Thanks for responding. I have a MS wireless mouse, an HP printer and a MIDIsport USB MIDI interface for hardware. I have nothing in the way of PCI cards, graphics cards installed.
David
Thanks for responding. I have a MS wireless mouse, an HP printer and a MIDIsport USB MIDI interface for hardware. I have nothing in the way of PCI cards, graphics cards installed.
David
kainjow - May 23, 2005 - 8:02 am
Make sure you have the latest drivers installed for your MIDIsport USB MIDI interface, that could be causing the kernel panics and such. Often times it is hardware that causes those system freezes, or kernel panics.
Kevin
Kevin
davidsax - May 30, 2005 - 7:37 pm
Kevin,
Put in the latest driver for MIDIsport, thought it helped it but it's back! A further clue - the only thing that seems to be affected is either trying to shut down or put to sleep. I can test to see if it will go to sleep or freeze by trying to open my DVD drive drawer - if it opens, the mac will sleep - if it won't open, I will get the SPWOD/freeze. As a further footnote, the other day I was surfing with no troubles, wanted to cut the grass, checked the DVD drawer test - NADA so I kept surfing/working. About two hours later, the drawer opened and closed!!! (I had pushed the eject button twice). I've tried relaunching the finder, shutting down all apps - ONLY cure seems to be power button reboot. Does this sound like a kernal panic? Any suggestions?
Thanks
David
Put in the latest driver for MIDIsport, thought it helped it but it's back! A further clue - the only thing that seems to be affected is either trying to shut down or put to sleep. I can test to see if it will go to sleep or freeze by trying to open my DVD drive drawer - if it opens, the mac will sleep - if it won't open, I will get the SPWOD/freeze. As a further footnote, the other day I was surfing with no troubles, wanted to cut the grass, checked the DVD drawer test - NADA so I kept surfing/working. About two hours later, the drawer opened and closed!!! (I had pushed the eject button twice). I've tried relaunching the finder, shutting down all apps - ONLY cure seems to be power button reboot. Does this sound like a kernal panic? Any suggestions?
Thanks
David
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