[donny31]

Does anyone have any insite to why I keep getting a Program quit with my new Power mac G4. Ive had it only a few days and i have installed new RAM and a new WD 120 gig hard drive. Any thoughts would be great.

[The Placid Casual]

this post is brough to you in the style of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston, creators of the 'Fighting Fantasy' series of books. (Yes I have too much time on my hands.)


What exact model is the machine, and what version of the OS are you running?

Did the machine run OK before the extras? Are they fitted correctly?

Without answers to the above questions, I would give this general advice;

If you are on OS X, I would first off fix the 'file permissions' with disk utility.

See if this helps. If not -->

Boot off the install CD and run disk repair.

See if this helps. If not-->

Run Fsck (if you can)

See if this helps. if not-->

Run the machine from the Hardware test CD.

See if this helps. if not-->

Remove extra RAM.

See if this helps. if not-->

Remove all non stock items.

See if this helps. if not-->

Reinstall OS X. (Choose Archive Instal, so you don''t lose data...)

See if this helps. if not-->

Call Apple.

Peace,

Marc

[macdevil]

Undo whatever you did since the last time it worked correctly. Put the old RAM back in and have new stuff checked. Old HD... I am sure this isn't the anwer you are looking for, but outside of a clean install of everything I am not sure what else to suggest from =the info you have given.

[donny31]

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
this post is brough to you in the style of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston, creators of the 'Fighting Fantasy' series of books. (Yes I have too much time on my hands.)


What exact model is the machine, and what version of the OS are you running?

Did the machine run OK before the extras? Are they fitted correctly?

Without answers to the above questions, I would give this general advice;

If you are on OS X, I would first off fix the 'file permissions' with disk utility.

See if this helps. If not -->

Boot off the install CD and run disk repair.

See if this helps. If not-->

Run Fsck (if you can)

See if this helps. if not-->

Run the machine from the Hardware test CD.

See if this helps. if not-->

Remove extra RAM.

See if this helps. if not-->

Remove all non stock items.

See if this helps. if not-->

Reinstall OS X. (Choose Archive Instal, so you don''t lose data...)

See if this helps. if not-->

Call Apple.

Peace,

Marc

thanks for the extra help --all seems to be working better since I repaired and restarted. I do have a question since you seem very knowledgable. The new hard drive that I installed and partitioned that s sits on my desk top (media drive) should it have OS X permissions? or is it ok that it just acts as storage for my movie, music, etc --

[The Placid Casual]

If the drive has been set up via 'Disk Utility' in OS X, you should be fine. It can just sit there and store stuff...

I had a few drives in a MDD machine set up this way for movie, music and backup storage only, and had no problems...

Peace,

Marc

(Be sure to check the jumpers are set correctly though... Depending on what model Mac you have, the requirements do change...)

[Busemann]

Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
Boot off the install CD and run disk repair.

See if this helps. If not-->

Run Fsck (if you can)

Actually fsck and disk repair are the same

[The Placid Casual]

Originally posted by Busemann:
Actually fsck and disk repair are the same

Indeed.

However I have frequently had success with one method, while the other has failed... I always do, and recommond both when in a fix.

Peace,

Marc