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jmengmo
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I am running Panther on an eMac. Have been running OSX on this machine exclusively since I bought it in August of 2002, upgrading along the way. It has been absolutely rock solid. Until today.
I was browsing the internet, and a site wouldn't load. tried to quit safari, but it wouldn't quit - had to force quit it. Tried to relaunch it, but wouldn't start back up. So I started closing applications, but none would close. I force quit each one and tried to restart, but not even the screen that confirms that you want to restart appeared. After 5 minutes or so, I powered it down.
Started it back up and everything worked fine for about 5 minutes - then the exact same thing happened; couldn't quit or launch applications. Even the finder hung. When I try to relaunch the finder, it hangs - for at least 5 minutes. That is when I loose patience and power down.
Any ideas? That is the one problem with never having had problems with this computer - I don't know what to do now that I have one...
Thanks in advance for any assistance or suggestions!
I was browsing the internet, and a site wouldn't load. tried to quit safari, but it wouldn't quit - had to force quit it. Tried to relaunch it, but wouldn't start back up. So I started closing applications, but none would close. I force quit each one and tried to restart, but not even the screen that confirms that you want to restart appeared. After 5 minutes or so, I powered it down.
Started it back up and everything worked fine for about 5 minutes - then the exact same thing happened; couldn't quit or launch applications. Even the finder hung. When I try to relaunch the finder, it hangs - for at least 5 minutes. That is when I loose patience and power down.
Any ideas? That is the one problem with never having had problems with this computer - I don't know what to do now that I have one...
Thanks in advance for any assistance or suggestions!