Power Mac - Quicksilver System Hanging Alot

ej21673 · ej21673 #1 (**permalink**)

03-05-2009, 09:52 PM

Does anyone have any ideas what would cause my PowerMac g4 Quicksilver to start hanging a lot, almost any application more complicated then web browsing and email. Even things like fast user switching is causing hang ups, then I restart and everything works. I am running MacOS X.5
Specs are dual 1.0ghz, 512mb of ram everything else is standard, i do have an add in wireless card and usb 2.0 card. Any help would be appreciated. As it is luckily the Quicksilver is a backup and spare and not the primary computer.

Thanks in advance!

vansmith · vansmith #2 (**permalink**)

03-05-2009, 10:13 PM

I think the specs alone answer the question. Your machine is getting quite old.

If it was running well earlier, you might be experiencing some slow down if your machine is getting cluttered with crap. Try removing things you don't need and do some maintenance with something like OnyX.

pigoo3 · pigoo3 #3 (**permalink**)

03-05-2009, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ej21673

Does anyone have any ideas what would cause my PowerMac g4 Quicksilver to start hanging a lot, almost any application more complicated then web browsing and email. Even things like fast user switching is causing hang ups, then I restart and everything works. I am running MacOS X.5
Specs are dual 1.0ghz, 512mb of ram everything else is standard, i do have an add in wireless card and usb 2.0 card. Any help would be appreciated. As it is luckily the Quicksilver is a backup and spare and not the primary computer.

Thanks in advance!

867mhz processor I believe is supposed to be the minimum recommended for OS 10.5...so with a 1.0 ghz dual processor your not that much greater than minimum.

512mb of ram is the minimum...which is what you have...so some extra ram may help.

You should also use "Disk Utility" occasionally to repair permissions...and restart your machine every now & then to "clear" out the ram. If you always "sleep" your Mac when you are done using it...the ram can get "fragmented" with all of the opening & closing of programs.

The bottom line is, your trying to run the most modern Apple OS on an old computer...it just can't handle it well. OS 10.4 is probably the best OS to run in terms of features & usability.

Hope this helps,

- Nick

harryb2448 · harryb2448 #4 (**permalink**)

03-06-2009, 04:42 PM

Boost the memory to 3 x 512MB modules and I am sure you will see a better response with leopard.

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ej21673 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 05, 2009 Posts: 1	03-05-2009, 09:52 PM Does anyone have any ideas what would cause my PowerMac g4 Quicksilver to start hanging a lot, almost any application more complicated then web browsing and email. Even things like fast user switching is causing hang ups, then I restart and everything works. I am running MacOS X.5 Specs are dual 1.0ghz, 512mb of ram everything else is standard, i do have an add in wireless card and usb 2.0 card. Any help would be appreciated. As it is luckily the Quicksilver is a backup and spare and not the primary computer. Thanks in advance!
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Member Since: Nov 28, 2007 Location: Nambucca Heads Australia Posts: 14,065 Mac Specs: iMac i5 2.7GHz OS X.8.3	03-06-2009, 04:42 PM Boost the memory to 3 x 512MB modules and I am sure you will see a better response with leopard.
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