Strange Tiger problems ... miracle cure ???
So a couple of days ago on my 867 mhz power mac running tiger with all maintenance applied, I started getting the beach ball of death. Only way to break out ... power cycle the machine ...ykkes! Fixed permissions, no help. Started getting scary ... had trouble booting ... would take two or three attempts to come up. So backed up everything. Tried to reinstall Tiger ... install would hang at various points .... Arggg! Went to bed. Next opened box and looked for excessive dust. No dust. Ran hardware diags ... no problems found. Tried to install Tiger again .... everything is working!! Applied all maintenance and things appear to have settled down. The only thing I can think of was the day I had my problems was very hot (like 90 in the house). Could exessive heat be the culprit?
Any thoughts?
Dave
Any thoughts?
Dave
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Heat makes a computer expand and cold (a.c./winter) makes them contract.
RAM can wiggle itself loose over time.
Let me guess, you routinely shut your Mac off at night?
Dave
Dave
I opened the bottom port to add RAM and the old RAM fell out onto the table.
RAM sits upside down in those Macs and they were fanless, so the heating/cooling (when it's off) really expanded and contracted things.
But I have seen RAM pop loose in G4 and G5 towers too.
Dave
Originally posted by David_R
Oh yeah, one other question I forgot in the last post. Are there any hardware logs I could look at for any error messages?
I'd try here first:
http://www.apple.com/support/
Then if you still can't find anything, Google it.
Dave