I wonder if anyone knows what might be the problem with my daughter's ibook G4 ? Quite frequently it has started to completely freeze and after shutting it down and restarting (pressing power button), all that happens is a black screen and loud fans - any thoughts gratefully received.
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ibook keeps freezing and fans come on
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What hardware does she have plugged in? Does she have third party RAM? What recent changes did she make to her system? Does she have at least 8GB of free space on the hard drive? Does this happen on battery power, adaptor power, or both? 
Sorry for all the questions, but their respective answers may be able to help your daughter more thoroughly.
Sorry for all the questions, but their respective answers may be able to help your daughter more thoroughly.
Thanks for the reply - I'll check all those things - I know for a fact that the ibook has extra ram from apple as they put it in for me when I purchased it and I reckon space is fine - this problem seemed to happen after she started playing "addicting games" or whatever it's called and I just wonder if the system likes all those graphic intensive stuff!? Otherwise it works fine and has always worked well whilst I used it for a year before (the ibook's just over a year old now).
Okay, the games are probably fine if they're not running. The great thing about OSX is that despite its interconnectivity, once an app is closed it can't really detract from your system performance.
Cool. Maybe keep Activity Monitor (in the Utilities folder) open. It shows where the Mac's CPU and RAM are being used and it might be able to forewarn you about a bad process before it freezes the machine. Make sure you select All Processes from the available drop down list though.