Dual 2.0 G5 Locking Up!!! Arrrghhhh!!!

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Dual 2.0 G5 Locking Up!!! Arrrghhhh!!!

Eversince 10.4.2, my Dual 2.0 PowerMac has had two distinct issues. One is it seems to lock up more and more on video encoding. I have 2Gb of ram, 250 Gb hard drive. The second issue I have is the login in screen when coming back from sleep, never comes up. I have turned on "the require password when waking up computer from sleep or screen saver" It used to always work like a charm, and now since 10.4.2 whenever my powermac sleeps for a period of time, the login box will never come up. Instead I get the spinning beachball. I have done all I can do, repair permissions, lastest updates, unplugged external drives, isight, etc.. I am ready to re-install Tiger from scratch if I can't get this resolved.

Thanks in advance.

Dual 2.0 Powermac G5, 2GB Ram, 250GB HD, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Nov 16, 2005 9:50 PM

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Steff

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Nov 17, 2005 4:16 AM in response to Mac Carlos

Have you tried turning off the "Computer to sleep", and untick the hard disk to sleep when possible?

It may not be the answer that you are looking for, but there are many threads whether this function causes problems or not.

Try this and see if you get a positive result maybe?

Steff

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Nov 17, 2005 3:10 PM in response to Mac Carlos

Try using Disk Utility to repair your startup disk (hard drive) as shown in Dr.Smokes repair thread.
Do everything in his link once a month and you'll keep your Mac running smooth.

Cheers!
DALE

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Mac Carlos Author

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Nov 17, 2005 5:00 PM in response to Dale Weisshaar

Thanks for the tips. I have done this religiously. Including resetting the nvram and the pram. My next step is a clean erase and install.

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