Hard Drive Replaced - ITunes now skips?
Hi everyone!
I posted my saga regarding my iMac G5 and our hard drive problems here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=783309&start=0&tstart=0
NOW - a week after having my hard drive replaced by Apple and finally getting all my settings and programs reloaded - all of a sudden my iTunes has starting to skip during playback like I'm stressing the processor when I do anything like follow an internet link, open/close Firefox or open any other program with iTunes playing.
I never had any issues like this before I had a new hard drive installed...
Ideas? Anyone?
2.1GHz PowerPC 20-inch iMac G5 w/iSight, 1.5GB RAM, 250 GB Mac OS X (10.4.8) 13" MacBook, 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo, 60GB
You might want to check with "Activity Monitor" (in your utilities folder) to see if there is something either "hogging" processor time or making heavy use of the HD, melzieb.
Once Activity Monitor has started open up the identically named "Activity Monitor" window, from the windows menu (if it is not opened automatically) , select "active processes" in the drop down box at the top of the window.
Click on the "CPU%" button in the bottom of the window to see a graph CPU activity etc.
One likely culprit is a process called "mdimport". This is directly associated with spotlight indexing proces, consumes both CPU and HD time, and is a common cause of slowdowns after HD replacement until Spotlight indexing has been completed etc.
Another possibility may be a "hung up" printer - Look for printmonitor or "printjobmanager" processes, or the like.
Cheers
Rod
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