At 8:23 PM -0500 7/16/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Jul 16, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Ricardo Sevilla wrote: > >> because the mouse will appear on the screen but nothing >> else will show up. > >> while it "freezes" the mouse still appears and is moveable and >> controllable >> but nothing else is. > >I believe this ability to move the cursor without any action, is a >sign that the System HD isn't active any longer.
Exactly. The system gets as far as it can, but quickly everything gets "stuck" waiting for the memory manager to page things in, from the swap and other image files, from the HD that isn't responding. Then things start to fail faster and faster until the deadlocks bollux everything, even the high priority routines like moving the mouse cursor on the screen.... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
