Powerbook G4
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- lifterBARON
I have a Powerbook G4 that generally runs perfectly. Its maxed out with 2 gigs of ram and runs at 1.67ghz. The past couple days its been running super slow while in PS CS3 and Firefox3. I have Leopard running on it and its updated and current for software. HD is about a year old and was upgraded to a 250 GB.
I ran permissions checks, checked for corrupted fonts, did all of the restart / virus scan shit I could think of. All seems fine with the speed issue as of late.
Has anyone else experienced a similar issue? Or have any advice on what could be the problem.
Thanks
- utopian20
rebuild desktop
- pascii0
try http://www.macupdate.com/info.ph…
but i suggest you to re-install CS2 or better CS1. CS3 uses the processor way too much for an PPC.
or a custom install with only the basics. turn off bridge
- I concur with Bridge being a ram whore even on a new computerCyBrain
- Strike840
out of curiousness does your battery charge ok?
I've got a 1.5ghz G4, but for some reason it won't charge anymore.... looking on the apple forums nearly everyone with a powerbook from the same age is experiencing the same problem.- battery charges fine.. it will only go for about 2.5 hours though.lifterBARON
- Yeah, 2.5 was about all I got from my G4 powerbook. Apple will advertise that their batteries last twice as long as they really do. I don't know how they get away with it.CyBrain
- pascii0
hmm. tried a new battery? they lose their power after some years
- MSL0
Also worth pointing out is that the internal PRAM battery is starting to go on the PB's now. They are part of the USB port on the right and can cost a lot to replace (you have to replace the whole port/board/pram assembly).
If your PB is loosing its date or forgetting persistent settings (including charging problems, wake from sleep etc) - it'll could be your PRAM battery dying :(
- paullyp0
I have exactly the same problem this morning - taking 20 mins to start up & making a horrible noise on startup, then when it does start up machine runs very slow....HD failing?
- the noise you hear is mosts def your hard drive... back your shit up!lifterBARON
- creative-0
My 15" Aluminium PB is 3 months away from being 5 years old. Every day it gets a little slower. I just put it down to old age and internals starting to fail.
- modern0
When its running slow have a look in Activity Monitor for ram or processor hogs
- i took a peak at this too.. seems to run at just about the same levels as my gf's macbook pro..lifterBARON
- Meeklo0
Time to re-format.
get an external HD (FW800) and save all your projects and media files there. Only install your applications on it.
This way you don't fill up your computer, should run just like if it was new.Pretty Ballsy of you running leopard on it, I'm on a MBP and still won't do it.
- lifterBARON0
Does anyone know if its the OS? sounds like some people hate Leopard. It ran fine on my iMac. And did to start on here.. Im at a loss for what it could be. Its impossible to scroll without watching the wheel spin.. Seems to have just started recently.. New RAM / HD..
The only other thing i think i might be able to do is a clean install / erase and install.. Not sure if thats overkill .. but fuck it at this point.
Also heard that Firefox 3 is a bitch for some people? Anyone else hear that?
Thanks
- CyBrain0
If you're hard drive is more than 90% full, you'll experience slow downs.
- lifterBARON0
Im probably near 70%..
- lifterBARON0
thanks for the help everybody..
any other suggestions??
Im gonna wipe it and do a clean install.. maybe that'll will hlep??
- MisterMonk0
Did u check out
apple>support>discussion
u can get got gd feedback there