[esor]

my Powerbook G4 has just recently gotten this horrible problem with freezing. I will just have itunes on playing a song and it will freeze for about 10-20 seconds than start again, and this happens constantly, I’m about to put my fist through this screen! It is so infuriating! Because it doesn't crash it just locks up (can't click or move, frozen) for about 30 seconds than unlocks, I can barely get anything done it is wasting so much of my time, no matter what programs are running it still does it, sometimes I get the rainbow thing sometimes not. It used to be fine, it happened THREE ****ing times while typing this!!

What can I do? I’ve always heard that Macs never freeze; mine has like a bastard, so much for that.

Is it a virus or spy ware? Can I download or buy something?

Please HELP!!!

Thank you so much

[ibook_steve]

Your hard drive could have problems. As a first test, try setting up a test user account and see if the problem persists with the test user. If it does not, there's something wrong in your account. If it still happens, you may want to think about replacing the drive, or at least run disk utility repair on it.

Steve

[hondo]

I will second the hard drive as a possible culprit. My MacBook Pro was doing the same thing, hanging for up to a minute then continuing. I tried looking at every software issue that I could think of, even zeroing out the hard drive and re-installing the software. Finally I took it to the Apple store and they swapped out the hard drive. So far it has solved the issue.

hondo

[MacPowerbookG4]

I will third that the hard drive is bad. My PB's hard drive did the same thing for a few days and then wouldn't boot up at all. I would strongly recommend that you back up your files while you can. Good luck.