Imac crashes often and has slow load time. (maybe hard drive problems)

Ok, I'm currently using an Imac G5 17" with 2 gigs of ram. (one dimm from a third party)
Some times my I mac works fine, often times The computer will freeze up for 3 to 10 minutes or become completely frozen where I have to physically turn the computer off.
This happens randomly using various applications ( i tunes/ arkaos vj, word, photo shop) I will see the spinning color wheel (as if it's thinking) and sometimes there is a clicking sound coming from within the computer.
(if you take a one of those clicking ice tea caps and push down on it and then let go. You'll hear the sound that my computer is making. except it continues to make that sound for a few minutes or so.
I have had external hard drives that have made a similar clicking sound before they died. leading me to believe that the hard drive is going bad.
I was curious if any one else has ran into this problem or might know what is causing it.
thanks!!

Please back up your data ASAP! Your drive is dying and you should make a clone of your system (I use SuperDuper!) before it gives up the ghost entirely. Use a firewire external to clone to, then, when you get a new drive, you can simply reverse clone the data onto it and you'll be up and running.

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I'd suspect this known issue:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377
if you have a late 2007 MBP.
The only testing you can do at home is to attach an external monitor and see if the defects repeat on the external. If so, get to an Apple store. If the computer's video chipset fails a test the Apple Store will perform, you get a free logic board replacement. Turnaround is usually one day to one week--not bad at all.
If the defects do NOT repeat on an external monitor, then the problem is not covered by the above Repair Extension Program
The issue is heat-triggered. Be certain that you control heat once you get it fixed. Don't use the computer in your lap without a lapboard; don't block the vents under the display hinge; don't us in clamshell mode, etc.

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I would try and copy the sparsebundle/s to another drive.
This will take an age 2 ages and half an age.
http://pondini.org/TM/18.html
Then erase the TC entirely from airport utility.
I would recommend you then start over.. keep the copy of the sparsebundle as archive version.
You do know you should have archived the disk before you started playing don't you!!

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I just recently reconfigured the companies sharepoint site, but this time around i put the database on server A and the website on server B. Now my problem is that the site takes too long to load. I am guessing this is a network issue as the site needs to
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As of right now i have two ESXi configured one with 16GB the other with 32GB, these are only for SP. What would you recommend as Alex said that i need at least 12-24GB for the Web server
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correct?( or the other way around)

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CAN you héliport please...

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Good day All, I love my new Macbook, but am trying to come up with a foolproof method of backing up all my data, documents, and business.
I have become very nervous about BACKUPS, and want to have an OFF-SITE week old backup done on a external Hard Drive?
I presently have a 200 gig Time Machine backup/archive, and have a daily clone with Super Duper & Carbon Copy Clone. However these hard drives are at home, so should the building burn down, or should we get broken into, there goes my business and digital life.
My thought is to buy an external hard drive and clone my current Time Machine hard drive to the external on a weekly basis, and store it off-site or at a friends house.
Would I be able to do a clone of my TM HD archive, and have it still useable / bootable / recoverable should a tragedy happen?
I would like to upload it all up to Mozy, or BackBlaze, or similar offering, but 200 gig is way too big.
Is anybody cloning a Time Machine hard drive and able to restore from it?
Thanks for reading my post, and am lookin forward to all of your comments, IAN...

Hi Ian,
Sorry I missed the discussion last night. I'll tell you how I'm accomplishing the backup task and you can let me know if this is what you're trying to do.
I now have 2 external HDs. A 1TB Seagate and a 250 GB LaCie. The LaCie used to be my TM backup drive, but it was the same size as my internal iMac drive. I knew I'd eventually need a bigger drive so I bought the 1TB Seagate yesterday and cloned the LaCie drive onto it using SuperDuper. The only thing on the LaCie drive was TM backups. Now the TM backup are on the Seagate. I unmounted the old TM drive and changed the name of the new drive to "Time Machine". I activated TM and it picked right up where it left off. I did test it by restoring an old file. I also changed a current file and made sure TM was still operating as advertised. Everything worked as expected.
Now I simply used the 250 GB drive to clone my system HD using CCC. It is a bootable backup and can be used to run the system should my internal drive become unusable. I will update this drive once a month with any changes to the system drive using CCC and keep it off-site in a safe deposit box in the meantime. Using this methodology, I don't see why you'd want to swap the drives weekly/monthly. Just let TM run on the large drive and keep the other drive as current as you like. I've decided monthly is good for me. I'm mostly worried about photos, but I keep them on the camera longer than a month, so there's my cover for the month.
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I'm sorry , LaP , but " Time Capsule become too full " is not the cause of my problem .
In fact, I just got done pruning the iMac system hard drive a little to free up some 10 Gb of new space , yet created only maybe 1-2 Gb of new data to archive. The TC had been doing regular daily backups without issue and Time Machine was showing me stuff from about ten days back.
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I just updated my RAM and I keep getting a crash report. I have a 21.5 Inch mid 2010 imac. I also am experiencing slow load times and when I try to open Final Cut it says that quartz extreme is not compatible and that I have no VRAM even though I do.

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Anonymous UUID:                    2DD57DDB-BB42-5614-395A-CA6225BDAFD9
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0xffffff81eb0eb9c0 : 0xffffff801aa43d8e
0xffffff81eb0eba00 : 0xffffff801aa435d2
0xffffff81eb0ebae0 : 0xffffff801aa663f7
0xffffff81eb0ebb20 : 0xffffff801aa67398
0xffffff81eb0ebc70 : 0xffffff801aa6887c
0xffffff81eb0ebd20 : 0xffffff801ad5b8fe
0xffffff81eb0ebf50 : 0xffffff801ade182a
0xffffff81eb0ebfb0 : 0xffffff801aaced33
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com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC    1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC    1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient    196.0.0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall    4.0.39
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