My 2004 ibook G4's hdd crashed/died and Apple wanted US$300+service charges for a 30GB hard disk. So I decided to fix it myself and put in a 80GB Seagate hard disk(about US$100 and 3yr warranty as opposed to Apple's 1year.).
I installed OS X Panther from the DVD I got with the system and I find that it keeps freezing/pausing for no apparent reason. The GUI stops responding and the cursor turns into the spinning beachball... after a while everything starts working again... until the next freeze.
(There are atleast 2 freezes even before I get to login)
I don't see any details in system logs.
I thought it might have something to do with the hard disk, so I tried booting into single user mode and did an "ls -lR /" and it worked flawlessly with no freeze/pause at all characters scrolling past faster than I can read!.(Did it multiple times to be certain it wasn't a fluke)
Whereas in the GUI, even starting up "Terminal" results in a freeze most of the time. And an "ls -lR /" takes ages and has multiple freezes.
Google and reading up various forums on the net seemed to suggest
that it was probably a memory problem. Tried removing the extra RAM stick with no change.
I've re-installed the OS nearly a dozen times in various configs including a default install(yes/next to all questions) on a single volume spanning the whole 80GB and it still keeps freezing.
I decided to try the Ubuntu PPC version and found that it worked flawlessly... I've been using it for nearly a month now with no problems whatsoever(everything except the modem works) So it doesn't seem to be a hardware issue.
Has anyone experienced similar problems before ? Any tips/pointers?
I installed OS X Panther from the DVD I got with the system and I find that it keeps freezing/pausing for no apparent reason. The GUI stops responding and the cursor turns into the spinning beachball... after a while everything starts working again... until the next freeze.
(There are atleast 2 freezes even before I get to login)
I don't see any details in system logs.
I thought it might have something to do with the hard disk, so I tried booting into single user mode and did an "ls -lR /" and it worked flawlessly with no freeze/pause at all characters scrolling past faster than I can read!.(Did it multiple times to be certain it wasn't a fluke)
Whereas in the GUI, even starting up "Terminal" results in a freeze most of the time. And an "ls -lR /" takes ages and has multiple freezes.
Google and reading up various forums on the net seemed to suggest
that it was probably a memory problem. Tried removing the extra RAM stick with no change.
I've re-installed the OS nearly a dozen times in various configs including a default install(yes/next to all questions) on a single volume spanning the whole 80GB and it still keeps freezing.
I decided to try the Ubuntu PPC version and found that it worked flawlessly... I've been using it for nearly a month now with no problems whatsoever(everything except the modem works) So it doesn't seem to be a hardware issue.
Has anyone experienced similar problems before ? Any tips/pointers?