toxictaipan
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Hello, everyone.
A few nights ago my iBook G4 has started freezing up randomly. It first happened when listening to music on my iTunes. It just started to skip, like a CD would. I thought that it might have been just that song so I tried to click on a different one, only to find out that my computer was completely frozen. Held the power button until it turned off, booted it back up, and it did it again after a few minutes.
It's been happening at different times. Most of the times it freezes at the blue screen right before it says "Starting Mac OS X" and the log in screen. But it has done it as early as the silver screen with the apple logo and the spinning wheel. Sometimes (although it's a rare occasion), I can get it to log in and use it for a little before freezing.
Everything still seems to be there, so I don't believe I've lost any data. However, it's not really any good if I can't use my computer without it freezing up on me in a couple minutes, or if I can't even log in.
So, my question is, what can I do to fix it? Is my hard drive just about to die? Is it something else? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
A few nights ago my iBook G4 has started freezing up randomly. It first happened when listening to music on my iTunes. It just started to skip, like a CD would. I thought that it might have been just that song so I tried to click on a different one, only to find out that my computer was completely frozen. Held the power button until it turned off, booted it back up, and it did it again after a few minutes.
It's been happening at different times. Most of the times it freezes at the blue screen right before it says "Starting Mac OS X" and the log in screen. But it has done it as early as the silver screen with the apple logo and the spinning wheel. Sometimes (although it's a rare occasion), I can get it to log in and use it for a little before freezing.
Everything still seems to be there, so I don't believe I've lost any data. However, it's not really any good if I can't use my computer without it freezing up on me in a couple minutes, or if I can't even log in.
So, my question is, what can I do to fix it? Is my hard drive just about to die? Is it something else? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!