[princetown]

all the tests in the world will never show this problem up if ,1.
it is a power supply problem ,2 a faulty system drive, or a cracked mother board ,i have been thru the same senario out of work for 3 weeks while the protools dudes check each card and discover that the cards are cool ,3 days on test bench. The cards are cool so back into G4 only to have the problem raise its ugly head again [random shutdown or freeze or errors that protools makes up to save face ,EVERYTHING FROM VIRUS TO FIRE WIRE DRIVES TO WHO COOKED TEA LAST NIGHT], the diagnostic tools cant show up an error in real woRld applications because you are not stressing the system,[ especially if it is a power supply] if it is an intermittent problem and it is not running Tools, [which it wont be to do the tests , the cards may also be out of the system when you do a diagnostic, everything will show up cool ] its kinda like diagnosing a crook car look at the obvious first ,everyone expects their computer to be great but power supplys and hard drives wear out, my greif cost me dearly , the funny thing is i said to the fix it guys, i think it is a power supply or a hard drive which was the last thing checked.Pro tools usually shows an error that you can reference back to answer base [my tools sessions froze and had errors that didnt make sense. ]AT the end of the day Tools worked fine, my G4 didnt ,hope this rave helps a few people out there, ,oh yeAh i got everthing back and the problems still persisted untill i tried another G4 that a mate lent me , keep on Tooling , Princetown