[rich82fox]

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hi

I was wondering if anybody here could help determine what quitting applications, errors when trying to write to dvd-rws, and mouse freezes could point to?

the machine is a powermac g3 (blue&white) orignally 300mhz that has been upgraded to a g4 450mhz (from yikes model apparently) - it has a pioneer dvd-rw drive that plays dvds with no problems

I am running Mac OSX10.3

the main part I'm concerned with is the dvd-rw not writing - could this be down to a hardware issue?

any ideas?

rich

[bowwowman]

Quitting apps and freezing mouse both point towards software issues, as in corrupted preferences or outdated drivers...easy fixes

Errors writing to DVD could be either software or hardware related, but since the drive will PLAY dvd's ok, I would look at:

A) amount of free space available on the boot drive, and
B) Try different brands of disks, and
C) Amount of physical ram installed

With a 20 gig HD and the average install of OS, apps, utilities ect, you are probably getting a little tight on space......

I would also recommend updating to 10.4, which has even better support and improved frameworks for disk burning

[hoopz]

Quitting apps can be caused by missing or corrupted fonts. Have you added or removed any recently?