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Why is my powerbook G4 being a POS

SamSam Registered User regular
edited December 2006 in Help / Advice Forum
It's throwing the beach ball on my for anything- trying to find an artist in iTunes, trying to browse websites- and it's a little sickening honestly, because the last time a computer has failed to chug on with something this basic for me was in ~1999.

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  • SmasherSmasher Starting to get dizzy Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    That's odd. Open Activity Monitor (Applications->Utilities->Activity Monitor) and see if anything else is eating up CPU cycles.

    More details would help also. How much memory do you have, how long has it been doing this, did you change anything around the time it started doing this, etc.

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  • SamSam Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    haven't changed anything. It's a 12" and has 1.25GB RAM.

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  • Google Image SearchGoogle Image Search Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    Repair disk permissions in the disk utility?

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2006
    Did you download the latest security update? Last update I downloaded fucked with my internet connection something fierce, beachballed any time I tried to open internet connect. Check the activity monitor.

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  • NucshNucsh Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    I suggest you run a search online for a program called Onyx, and run a repair permissions plus a daily/weekly/monthly maintenance script run. After that, clean out your app/kernel/system caches (still using Onyx).

    See how it runs after that. If it's still sluggish, there's a bigger issue.

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    Second the check permissions and scan the disk for errors, something ain't right there.

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  • SamSam Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    Will look into Onyx.

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