My brother's G4 is running 10.4.10, with an upgraded CPU (Sonnet 1.8 Ghz), 896MB of ram, 1 x 120GB HDD (primary), 1 x 320GB HDD (partitioned into 120, 120, and 60 using ATA Hi-Cap). Up until about 3 months ago (around the same time I upgraded the CPU), iTunes has been running fine. Since then, whenever I tried to convert audio CDs to MP3s in iTunes, it would get to about the third or fourth song, then my whole system would freeze, and I would have to do a hard re-boot. Importing MP3s wasn't a problem. And nothing else about his system was an issue. From my observations for the last 3 months, only iTunes was a problem.
He finally decided to just bite the bullet, backed up his files onto the secondary drive, and I wiped the primary and reinstalled OS X 10.4.10 from scratch. His system actually felt a little faster and more responsive. But it's still having crashing issues when converting audio CDs. And now, when I tried importing the backed up MP3s, that also crashed his system. I've used iTunes 6.3 right up to the latest version, and still having those issues.
I can't figure this out. Someone suggested it might be the new processor, but I doubt it. If it was the CPU, other functions of his system would also be affected, but it's not. The only thing else I can think of, but can't confirm, is the RAM. Even thought they are fully registering, one stick or all could still be bad. My G5 has no issues whatsoever with iTunes converting or importing. So I've eliminated the app as the problem. Any opinions, or a solution would be greatly appreciated.
He finally decided to just bite the bullet, backed up his files onto the secondary drive, and I wiped the primary and reinstalled OS X 10.4.10 from scratch. His system actually felt a little faster and more responsive. But it's still having crashing issues when converting audio CDs. And now, when I tried importing the backed up MP3s, that also crashed his system. I've used iTunes 6.3 right up to the latest version, and still having those issues.
I can't figure this out. Someone suggested it might be the new processor, but I doubt it. If it was the CPU, other functions of his system would also be affected, but it's not. The only thing else I can think of, but can't confirm, is the RAM. Even thought they are fully registering, one stick or all could still be bad. My G5 has no issues whatsoever with iTunes converting or importing. So I've eliminated the app as the problem. Any opinions, or a solution would be greatly appreciated.