Re: Can this Wallstreet be saved?
Hi Anne, My WS did the same for a while. It took me sometime to find out the culprit. In my case it was a small program for a Wee-Cam that I had installed some time back in 9.0 but when I updated to 9.2.2 it started freezing, even when the camera was not plugged in so I was stumped for a long while. After I trashed that program (by trial and error) the problem went away. Check your list of installed programs or extensions, it sounds like a conflict to me. Do you have Conflict Catcher? It may help to diagnose if its an extension. Hector I. Macedo Lord of the Flies Dallas, TX 75248 Piscaro Itaque dicet mendacium -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Can this Wallstreet be saved?
My Wallstreet (266 MHz upgraded to 466 with the PowerLogix BlueChip card) constantly freezes. Usually it just freezes - no response to any key or mouse, so I have to force-restart. Every once in a while it puts up an error restart box, or at least starts to draw one. These aren't consistent, but at least sometimes refer to a bus error. On at least one startup attempt it read address error. It can happen any time, though it tends not to happen when I'm not doing anything with the computer (when it's just sitting there checking email every so often). It's done this occasionally on off for several years. When it started to get bad a couple years ago I pulled one of the RAM chips, thinking it might be bad - at the time I had a 256 a 128 - and it got better for the next year or so. Then it started again. Recently it added freezing while booting (it hadn't done that before), now I often have to start it up 2 or 3 or even 4 times to get it to complete booting. There's no one place that it freezes at - it could be anywhere in the process. So I finally tried to figure out what it was - so far have only figured out what it ISN'T - the RAM the processor. I've swapped my RAM chips around (new originals left each slot empty in turn) figured out it's none of them. I've put the original processor back in still had the problem. Is there anything that it's really likely to be that wouldn't be too expensive to try? I don't need this to work any more - my husband got tired of my bad language when it froze up on me as I worked, so I got a new 17 powerbook (original model, deeply-discounted floor model from CompUSA). I could dump the wallstreet, or see if anyone wants it for parts on eBay. But it's still fine for basically everything I was doing on it, if only it wouldn't freeze, and I'd love to know it was working going to someone who would use it. (I'm really too emotionally attached to my Macs!) Since it's no loss if I screw up, I figure if it might be reasonably cheap parts I might as well go ahead and try. More information, if any of it is useful: It's most likely to happen when I do two things quickly - say open an app or window then double-click on something else while the first is still opening. But it also often happens randomly as I work or browse the web. The file copies to its replacement were a nightmare - it would freeze every few hundred megabytes for most of it, so I'd have to restart figure out how far the transfer had gotten. Then the last 6 gigabytes or so transfered without error! Any ideas? Anne -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Can this Wallstreet be saved?
Anne, Do you own a disk utility like DiskWarrior? On Mar 2, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Anne Judge wrote: My Wallstreet (266 MHz upgraded to 466 with the PowerLogix BlueChip card) constantly freezes. snip More information, if any of it is useful: It's most likely to happen when I do two things quickly - say open an app or window then double-click on something else while the first is still opening. But it also often happens randomly as I work or browse the web. The file copies to its replacement were a nightmare - it would freeze every few hundred megabytes for most of it, so I'd have to restart figure out how far the transfer had gotten. Then the last 6 gigabytes or so transfered without error! Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Can this Wallstreet be saved?
On Mar 2, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Phil Burk wrote: Anne, Do you own a disk utility like DiskWarrior? Sorry, should have mentioned that - Disk Warrior Tech Tools Pro, which I keep on a separate partition with OS 9.1 (never got around to updating it! - I have 9.2.2 on the main partition). Freezes will happen on occasion while running off that partition, running Tech Tools, so it doesn't appear to be a bad main-partition OS (though freezes are less frequent - maybe because I'm having it do fewer things at once???) - and (other than that) both utilities run fine, fix the occasional disk problem (the kind you don't know of until the utility tells you it wants to fix it!) and give the computer a clean bill of health. Anne -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Can this Wallstreet be saved?
Could be a faulty keyboard. Not sure if you can start without keyboard, haven't tried it myself, and don't have my wallstreet with me to try right now. Keyboard is easy to disconnect. Doesn't cost anything to try. Matt On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 09:31 AM, Anne Judge wrote: Is there anything that it's really likely to be that wouldn't be too expensive to try? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Can this Wallstreet be saved?
Anne, Are you running OS X or OS 8/9? If 8/9 your problem may be software. 8/9 was never that stable. Install OS X and see if the problem goes away. If you are tied to 8/9, I suggest you do a clean install of the operating system. Paul On Mar 2, 2004, at 6:31 AM, Anne Judge wrote: My Wallstreet (266 MHz upgraded to 466 with the PowerLogix BlueChip card) constantly freezes. Usually it just freezes - no response to any key or mouse, so I have to force-restart. Every once in a while it puts up an error restart box, or at least starts to draw one. These aren't consistent, but at least sometimes refer to a bus error. On at least one startup attempt it read address error. It can happen any time, though it tends not to happen when I'm not doing anything with the computer (when it's just sitting there checking email every so often). It's done this occasionally on off for several years. When it started to get bad a couple years ago I pulled one of the RAM chips, thinking it might be bad - at the time I had a 256 a 128 - and it got better for the next year or so. Then it started again. Recently it added freezing while booting (it hadn't done that before), now I often have to start it up 2 or 3 or even 4 times to get it to complete booting. There's no one place that it freezes at - it could be anywhere in the process. So I finally tried to figure out what it was - so far have only figured out what it ISN'T - the RAM the processor. I've swapped my RAM chips around (new originals left each slot empty in turn) figured out it's none of them. I've put the original processor back in still had the problem. Is there anything that it's really likely to be that wouldn't be too expensive to try? I don't need this to work any more - my husband got tired of my bad language when it froze up on me as I worked, so I got a new 17 powerbook (original model, deeply-discounted floor model from CompUSA). I could dump the wallstreet, or see if anyone wants it for parts on eBay. But it's still fine for basically everything I was doing on it, if only it wouldn't freeze, and I'd love to know it was working going to someone who would use it. (I'm really too emotionally attached to my Macs!) Since it's no loss if I screw up, I figure if it might be reasonably cheap parts I might as well go ahead and try. More information, if any of it is useful: It's most likely to happen when I do two things quickly - say open an app or window then double-click on something else while the first is still opening. But it also often happens randomly as I work or browse the web. The file copies to its replacement were a nightmare - it would freeze every few hundred megabytes for most of it, so I'd have to restart figure out how far the transfer had gotten. Then the last 6 gigabytes or so transfered without error! Any ideas? Anne -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
