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Hello. I've a normally very reliable imac 1.6GHz powerPC G5 512RAM
Just in the last few days I've been having a lot of freezes. It has almost never crashed in the 4 or 5 years I've had the imac apart from when I had a sudden hard disk failure about 2 years ago. The problem is beyond just freezes. I've been having problems after trying restarts. The imac hasn't always managed to start up and it's taken several attempts before the imac has been running again.
One thing I've been doing differently is I started using some external speakers which previously I'd used on a pc. I know it says on the instructions that I should do a restart after plugging the speakers into the computer. Is this necessary? I haven't been bothering. Another thing is I use a Griffin imic to record my voice on the imac. It's occurred to me that the imac was set up in the Sound settings to use the Griffin device that perhaps this meant the imac wasn't set up right for the speakers although the speakers have been working ok without my going into Sound settings and changing anything.
Another thing is Skype (which appears automatically on start up/restarts) is now saying "skype error valid port numbers are 1024 65535" every time I have to do a restart.
I have a piece of software called SMART utility which says the hard disk is fine.
Thanks for any help.
Just in the last few days I've been having a lot of freezes. It has almost never crashed in the 4 or 5 years I've had the imac apart from when I had a sudden hard disk failure about 2 years ago. The problem is beyond just freezes. I've been having problems after trying restarts. The imac hasn't always managed to start up and it's taken several attempts before the imac has been running again.
One thing I've been doing differently is I started using some external speakers which previously I'd used on a pc. I know it says on the instructions that I should do a restart after plugging the speakers into the computer. Is this necessary? I haven't been bothering. Another thing is I use a Griffin imic to record my voice on the imac. It's occurred to me that the imac was set up in the Sound settings to use the Griffin device that perhaps this meant the imac wasn't set up right for the speakers although the speakers have been working ok without my going into Sound settings and changing anything.
Another thing is Skype (which appears automatically on start up/restarts) is now saying "skype error valid port numbers are 1024 65535" every time I have to do a restart.
I have a piece of software called SMART utility which says the hard disk is fine.
Thanks for any help.