girlnextdoor
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I have a (refurbished) Powerbook G4 550MHz with MacOS 10.2.7 that I just got from ebay. I *thought* it was working well, but in the first week I owned it, I had to force reboot it 4 out of the 6 times I had turned it on. It seems it doesn't like to wake up once it's gone to sleep (well, I know that feeling). Any ideas what to do about that? How bad is it for the computer to be rebooting it so often?
Also, the laptop supposedly has the ability to play DVD's. When I insert a DVD though, it fires up the DVD software, and then promptly freezes up. In some cases I was able to stop the DVD and start it again, in which case it played for up to a minute (with no sound though, even though I have all sound turned on), but then it would freeze up again. Usually I was able then to just force the DVD program to quit, but in one instance it caused the entire computer to jam up. Help! Is this my punishment for buying a computer on ebay?
I appreciate any support you can provide.
Thanks!
Also, the laptop supposedly has the ability to play DVD's. When I insert a DVD though, it fires up the DVD software, and then promptly freezes up. In some cases I was able to stop the DVD and start it again, in which case it played for up to a minute (with no sound though, even though I have all sound turned on), but then it would freeze up again. Usually I was able then to just force the DVD program to quit, but in one instance it caused the entire computer to jam up. Help! Is this my punishment for buying a computer on ebay?
I appreciate any support you can provide.
Thanks!