On 01/04/2009, at 10:00 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:
On 31/3/09 3:28 PM, "Diana & Graham Stevens" <diag...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Graham's iMac [PowerPC G5(3.0), 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM running 10.3.9] has
become extremely slow.
All applications run slowly and collecting email or using the
Internet is so slow as to be useless. The connection is OK because my
G5 still works well.
I repaired permissions but that has not helped.
Can anyone suggest what is wrong/how to fix it?
On 31/3/09 6:52 PM, Daniel Kerr wote:
It could be the drive is fragmented and needs something run over it, like
DiskWarrior to degfragment (or a similar program).
It could also be the start of a failing Hard Drive, hence why it's slow. So
make sure to keep a good backup. (Techtool can sometimes tell you
the status
of a drive as well).
Thanks for the suggestion Daniel but it didn't work.
The iMac does not recognise the Disk Warrior disk (v. 3.0, OS
10.3.2) as a Start Up Disk. It is OK on my computer.
On 01/04/2009, at 11:06 AM, Robert Howells wrote:
As best as I can tell from your Machine description by using Mactracker ,
your supplied Mac OS will be later than 10.3.2 and as a consequence
that would likely explain why your Disk Warrior will not start up .
As you had 10.3.9 now running on the imac that just may explain why
the system disk will not advance .... hope the cpu is not faulty .
I can loan you a later version of Disk Warrior if you wish .
In between times you may like to connect the imac in Target Disk mode
to your own Mac and run a Check Disk program on it using Disk Utility
to see what that says .
Thanks for your help Bob.
I managed to find the IMac's disks, started up from the Install disk
and ran Disk repair and Preference repair. It did not find any
problems, not that that means too much.
When I finished I noticed the CD seemed hot so we cleaned the fluff
out of the fan intake, maybe that will help.
Thanks for the offer of your Disk Warrior CD but we need to get an
upgrade. I tried 3 places but nobody carries stock. I shall order it
from Team Digital which is our closest Apple place now that Computer
Traders have disappeared. I am told DigiLife has gone too.
In the meantime I am making Graham back up every file he alters.
Copying to the Firewire drive is not a problem but copying over the
Network is hopeless.
Best wishes to all from Diana
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