Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 6-06-2011 4:37, John Callahan ha scritto: > I have disabled sleep and that seems to have solved the problem. I > think the video card may be going. IMHO, it's not the card. If the card would be failing, that would manifest while working, not while "sleeping". It could be an incompatibil

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 6/5/11 8:37 PM, John Callahan wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: If I had to venture a guess... Turn off the screen saver and see if it stops locking up.A lot of the OSX screen savers use opengl - and if there's a problem with the graphics card, it could tickle it in th

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
On Jun 5, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 5-06-2011 19:05, John Callahan ha scritto: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes Does it feel lonely...? ;-D (sorry, I couldn't resist ;-) I have disabled sleep and that seems to have s

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
On Jun 5, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Dan wrote: At 1:05 PM -0400 6/5/2011, John Callahan wrote: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes and a message comes up that says "you need to restart your computer". Anyone have any idea of what's wrong? That's a kerne

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: If I had to venture a guess... Turn off the screen saver and see if it stops locking up. A lot of the OSX screen savers use opengl - and if there's a problem with the graphics card, it could tickle it in the wrong way. I have disabl

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
That's a kernel panic. Check the system.log and panic log files to see exactly what died. Have you made any hardware changes to your system recently? Do you have any tasks that explicitly run when you're idle? - Dan. System Log says as follows: Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 85165) 201

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Brielle Bruns
If I had to venture a guess... Turn off the screen saver and see if it stops locking up. A lot of the OSX screen savers use opengl - and if there's a problem with the graphics card, it could tickle it in the wrong way. -- Brielle Bruns http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org -Or

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
On Jun 5, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 5-06-2011 19:05, John Callahan ha scritto: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes Does it feel lonely...? ;-D (sorry, I couldn't resist ;-) Log says as follows: Mac OS X Version 10.4.11

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Dan
At 1:05 PM -0400 6/5/2011, John Callahan wrote: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes and a message comes up that says "you need to restart your computer". Anyone have any idea of what's wrong? That's a kernel panic. Check the system.log and panic log

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 5-06-2011 19:05, John Callahan ha scritto: > My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running > it freezes Does it feel lonely...? ;-D (sorry, I couldn't resist ;-) Back to serious, you can probably find some hints in the log files (they should record the issues),

Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes and a message comes up that says "you need to restart your computer". Anyone have any idea of what's wrong? Thank you -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3,