Elliotjnewman
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I think I have dodgy ram or a dodgy hard drive in my G4 - is there a way I can test this?
Thanks, Elliot
Thanks, Elliot
fryke said:Sounds like the harddrive... Clicking and scratching sounds? Get a harddrive fast, make a backup and then install that new one and get rid of the old one. Not on eBay, though, rather a trashcan.
Panther will run with only 256 MB of RAM. It won't be fastl, but it will run. Let us know what the S.M.A.R.T. test says. Your problem is really sounding like a drive going bad. If you have to replace your HD, the price depends more on the capacity of the new drive and the rotation speed, but prices can range from less than $60 for a 40 GB drive up to around $200 for a 250 GB model. If your G4 is a Mirror Drive Door (MDD) or later model you can easily go up to a 250 GB drive, but Quicksilver and earlier G4s are limited to 128 GB drive capacity unless you also buy a new ATA adapter card.Elliotjnewman said:This will leave Panther with only 256mb - is this enough?
The standard drives used in the G4/1.25 MDD are 7200 rpm and unless you are doing really demanding audio/video work that should be more than adequate for anything else. You can get 10.000 rpm drives but they are expensive, noisy, and tend to have a shorter lifespan.Elliotjnewman said:I would rather have speed over space on a HD. Im running on a G4 MDD dual 1.25 - what speed is that drive and how fast can a drive goto? oh more money to spend... it never ends...