I recently upgraded to Panther. Im running a slightly older G4 system. 768 ram, 733 mgh processor, etc. Recently everything has been working funky. My applications work fine, but if I go into system prefrences for instance, I get a never ending pinwheel. If I move the mouse to the top right where the time and date are, the pinwheel is back. I can't open my cd rom drive to put any cd's in. The comp. also wont shut down. If I go to restart, sleep, shut down or even log off, it completely ignores the request. I have to shut down by holding the power button. In addition I'm running two monitors using the Matrox RTCMac card. i dont know if that's affecting it or not. This is a mess and I have work waiting for files I need to burn, but I cant the cd-r drive open. Anyone help, please. Any ideas what might be causing this or how to fix this?
-Brian
-Brian