On Apr 7, 2010, at 11:27 PM, Timo V wrote:
I just upgraded my PowerMac G5 1.8GHz tower (2003) from 1GB RAM to 5GB RAM, today. I was hoping that with more memory that the would process video better. I am running Leopard on the thing, 10.5.8, and iMovie still plays back video I take on my iSight attached to that Mac with scant tracking of audio and video.
This machine should work fine with this. Fer crying out loud an *iMac* works with iSight video and iMovie.
Run disk utility to check your disk(s), disk problems will cause issues like this, obviously. Is your hard drive nearly full? Consider installing an additional disk for just video scratch space.
Look in the console and system logs for errors occurring while you're doing this.
Make sure there aren't a lot of other processes running at the time this is happening. You can run Activity Monitor to see what's going on.
Look through your startup items in your Accounts Prefs Pane. Are there a lot of items? Do you really need them? If any of them are HP startup items get rid of them, HO just LOOOVES to crap up computers with uneccessary crap...you can tell when your'e running out of ink, for instance ... HP scanners, in particular toss in a bunch a crap, that are memory sinkholes.
Something's not right with your machine. I'd look into finding out what was wrong before you start throwing Windows fixes at it like 'get a new video card'.
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