demasterbaas Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Hi, Since a few days i've got a serious performance problem on my PowerBook G4 12" 1.5Ghz (One of the latest 12" G4's made i think about end 2005). Booting the computer takes about 5 times longer then before... Can't play a simple avi movie from my digicam (640x480 @ 30 fps), it plays about 1 frame a second. Starting up programs takes ages.... Viewing my photo's in iPhoto goes terrible... It's almost like everything is in slow-motion.. And the PB is getting realy hot, and the fan is blowing all the time... So here is what i already tried: - Complete disk erease (including all partitions) from install disk and clean OS X install on 1 full disk size partition > no good - Full software update to OS X 10.4.9 > no good - Removed the 256MB Memory bank (so only the 256MB onboard was used) > no good - Cleared NVRAM + PRAM > no good - Cleared PMU (Power Management Unit) > no good Apple hardwaretest from install disk tell's me everything is O.K. I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but i installed Leopard about 5 weeks ago on a second partition. After that everything worked fine for those 5 weeks, altough i didn't use Leopard. The problem appeared just at once: As if i hit "the slow-motion button" or something... I didn't do strange things on the PB, only viewing some photo's, some browsing with Firefox, some music in iTunes... I wasn't installing or hacking anything, so i've got no clue what it can be... All help appreciated!! Tnx!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 The hard drive might be dying or there might be a loose/bad connection in the internals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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