Re: G4 Power PC freezes after about 5 or 6 minutes when playing video from internet

2009-10-04 Thread Dan
(sorry 'bout the reply delay; been dealing with some problems) At 6:00 AM -0700 9/29/2009, Max wrote: [top posting corrected] >On Sep 28, 9:56 am, Dan wrote: >> At 8:26 AM -0400 9/28/2009, Tray Stephenson wrote: >> >> >I've got a problem with my 1.8 GHZ G4 PowerPC (2 GB RAM) freezing up >> >a

Re: G4 Power PC freezes after about 5 or 6 minutes when playing video from internet

2009-09-29 Thread Mike
Hi Tray, When you say it "freezes", does it just stop responding, or does it bring up a mostly grey screen telling you to turn the computer off in a few different languages? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: G4 Power PC freezes after about 5 or 6 minutes when playing video from internet

2009-09-29 Thread Len Gerstel
On Sep 29, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Max wrote: > > On Sep 28, 9:56 am, Dan wrote: >> At 8:26 AM -0400 9/28/2009, Tray Stephenson wrote: >> >>> I've got a problem with my 1.8 GHZ G4 PowerPC (2 GB RAM) freezing up >>> after displaying about 5 or 6 minutes of internet video (news >>> broadcasts, general v

Re: G4 Power PC freezes after about 5 or 6 minutes when playing video from internet

2009-09-29 Thread Max
Dan: The machine is a G4 PowerMac w/1.8 GHz Sonnet CPU w/2GB RAM) running OS 10.4.11. Browser is latest Safari version and web access is through a cable connection. I have 4 internal hard drives, but use the 40GB WDC WD400BB for most things because it seems the fastest. I don't think that heat

Re: G4 Power PC freezes after about 5 or 6 minutes when playing video from internet

2009-09-28 Thread Dan
At 8:26 AM -0400 9/28/2009, Tray Stephenson wrote: >I've got a problem with my 1.8 GHZ G4 PowerPC (2 GB RAM) freezing up >after displaying about 5 or 6 minutes of internet video (news >broadcasts, general video, etc.). When it does this, I have to >restart. There's plenty of available memory

Re: G4 Power PC freezes after about 5 or 6 minutes when playing video from internet

2009-09-28 Thread Mike
Is it flash video? Flash seems to eat processor cycles under osx for some reason, so it could be that things are just getting too hot and causing it to freak out. Is there anything else you can do to work the processor (video encoding, or even a batch of using iTunes to convert things from

G4 Power PC freezes after about 5 or 6 minutes when playing video from internet

2009-09-28 Thread Tray Stephenson
Hi! I've got a problem with my 1.8 GHZ G4 PowerPC (2 GB RAM) freezing up after displaying about 5 or 6 minutes of internet video (news broadcasts, general video, etc.). When it does this, I have to restart. There's plenty of available memory on my hard drive, so I can't figure out what