Powerbook frozen

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kokoro710

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Hi,
I have a g4 Powerbook laptop. I was online last night and the CPU crashed. I forced quit from Explorer and AIM, but just got the swirly circle of death. So I forced restart. For a long time, the Apple page came up with the circling gear. I did the whole single user thing (Type in the /sbin/fsck -fy command), and it said there were no problems. But when I rebooted, it took about 30 minutes to even get to the desktop, and the system is absolutely creeping at this point. How do I get the CPU back to running at normal speed?
Thanks so much!
Jeff
 
If possible bring up the Activity Monitor app to see what processes are running on the system. Located in Applications->Utilities folder.

This will tell you what is running on the system, and if anything is dominating the CPU time, you can see it running, click on it, and press quit process in the upper left corner of the app.
If you are unsure, take a screen shot of activity monitor, post it here.
 
Things are somewhat better, but the laptop will still intermittently take a minute or so to do something simple such as quit an application like iTunes. I don't see anything taking up a high percentage of memory on the activity monitor; the only thing that seems a bit odd is the window server using about 20 MBs. Other stuff, like "iTunes helper" and "pbs" and "SystemUIserver" are taking up memory, but not very much. Again, the problem is better than it was, but something still appears to be amiss.
 
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