Power Mac Freezes Up?

[L A R E !]

i have a power mac g-5 quad with an external dvd drive and a external hard drive and 2gb of ram. on my ext. hard drive i downloaded mac the ripper and that is where i put all my dvds, now today on my pmac i was using mac the ripper, popcorn, itunes, safari all at once and it froze up on me?why? could the ram be an issue? how may programs can i use at once with my pmac?

 

[mad jew]

It should be fine with those apps. How did it freeze up? Did it eventually start working normally again? Did it display any message or text? Did you have to reboot?

 

[L A R E !]

Yes

the power mac shut down and restarted itself but it froze twice in a row, the mouse was the only thing responding but not able to click no error code or mess.

 

[mad jew]

Maybe try some of the suggestions on this page for monitoring what may have happened.