IBook G4..a faster one aftr a few weeks!!

hey...
I got my ibbok last december...it was workin fine till ystrday, but suddenly has become awfully slow in all aspects since this morning...
cant it be faster...can i do someothing to make it fast as it was weeks ago wen i bought it new....i deleted many songs too, bcoz it was eating up my harddisk space, but this doesnt work..
wat should i do..
thanx..

Dipti,
You can find information on repairing permissions here.
It seems as though many people believe that having a lot of files or space being taken up on their hard drive will effect their speed. This is usually not the case. Usually a Mac with 2GB of free space will work just as well as a Mac with 50GB of free disk space depending on the amount of RAM one has. You have a fairly large amount of RAM, so you should feel free to use up plenty of disk space. OS X only needs about 1.5-2.0GB of free space to run efficiently.
When was the last time you rebooted your Mac? Sometimes RAM becomes fully used, and the hard drive begins being paged which can significantly effect performance since hard drives are much slower than physical memory. Restarting your Mac will clear this RAM again.
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Hello, I hope someone can help me
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The LEDs on the board have the combination red-red-green-green. -- Means: Decompressing BIOS Image to RAM for fast booting.
Obviously I tried another RAM module. But it didn’t help. I don’t know what I should do, because I can’t even get to the BIOS. The screen just stays black.
PS: I didn’t OC or try to flash a new Bios version.
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Okay, please have a look at this document:
http://www.ami.com/support/doc/AMIBIOS8_Checkpoint_and_Beep_Code_List_PUB.pdf
As you can see, there are two main routines going on after you hit the power-on button:
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__ and __
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Your problem description ...
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The LEDs on the board have the combination red-red-green-green. -- Means: Decompressing BIOS Image to RAM for fast booting.
... indicates that your system halts in the first of the two main routines I just mentioned. To be more precise, it hangs at Bootblock Initialization Checkpoint D5, which is defined as follows:
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Bootblock code is copied from ROM to lower system memory and control is given to it. BIOS now executes out of RAM. Copies compressed boot block code to memory in right segments. Copies BIOS from ROM to RAM for faster access. Performs main BIOS checksum and updates recovery status accordingly.
In the last two phases of this checkpoint:
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Copies BIOS from ROM to RAM for faster access. Performs main BIOS checksum and updates recovery status accordingly.
The actual BIOS Code is copied into RAM and checked for integrity. When BIOS corruption is detected (=wrong BIOS checksum), the system will automatically jump into BIOS Recovery Mode (which is a sub-routine of the Bootblock Initialization routine).
Now, this brings us to the actual meaning of the beep(s) you hear:
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One beep every few seconds. -- Means: DRAM refresh failure.
The BIOS Recovery mode (which is not part of the actual P.O.S.T. Routine, but a sub-routine of the Bootblick Intialization Routine) has its own set of Beep Code definitions which are described on page 15 of the document I linked you to:
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12 --‘AMIBOOT.ROM’ file size error
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