I recently bought a new Mac G5 with twin Intel double core chips.  I've 
been busy with classes lately, and until recently, I haven't had time to 
think about rendering much.
But I've been noticing a disturbing trend over the past couple days, 
almost every time I try rendering a scene, any scene, my computer locks 
up on me.

Now, I've had it for a month and this is the first time it's given me 
any trouble.

I've had the computer into the shop, and they tell me that there's 
absolutely nothing wrong with it.  This is confirmed both by the 
system's startup check, and by my copy of TechTool Pro.

I'm perfectly willing to be voted down, and I hate to cast aspersions 
against our favorite ray tracer, but is there even the slightest 
possibility that PoV is causing my problems?  I have to ask in order to 
rule it out.

Regards,

ADB

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Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> I'm perfectly willing to be voted down, and I hate to cast aspersions 
> against our favorite ray tracer, but is there even the slightest 
> possibility that PoV is causing my problems?

No, its impossible for a user program to disable any Unix-based system. This 
includes Mac OS X.

	Thorsten

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Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> almost every time I try rendering a scene, any scene, my computer locks 
> up on me.

Try running another float-intensive compute-bound program for a couple 
hours. Maybe your chip is overheating.

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Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> I recently bought a new Mac G5 with twin Intel double core chips.

Reading this line again, I am rather confused what kind of computer you 
actually have. Do you have a x86 PC from Apple, misleadingly sold by Apple 
as "Mac" (its everything but a Mac because it is incompatible to most old 
Mac software), or do you have a real Macintosh, with PowerPC processor? The 
"G5" can only refer to a PowerPC processor-based Macintosh, not any x86 
processor made by Intel...

	Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> 
>> I recently bought a new Mac G5 with twin Intel double core chips.
> 
> 
> Reading this line again, I am rather confused what kind of computer you 
> actually have. Do you have a x86 PC from Apple, misleadingly sold by 
> Apple as "Mac" (its everything but a Mac because it is incompatible to 
> most old Mac software), or do you have a real Macintosh, with PowerPC 
> processor? The "G5" can only refer to a PowerPC processor-based 
> Macintosh, not any x86 processor made by Intel...
> 
>     Thorsten

I honestly don't know. I was under the impression that it had the dual 
core Intel chips that Apple switched to recently, but apparently, they 
still call it a PowerPC.

ADB

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Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> I honestly don't know. I was under the impression that it had the dual 
> core Intel chips that Apple switched to recently, but apparently, they 
> still call it a PowerPC.

They certainly do not. You should be able to find out about the processor in 
the "About this Mac" dialog accessible via the Apple menu.

	Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> (its everything but a Mac because it is incompatible to most old 
> Mac software)

  Does "incompatible" in your vocabulary mean "cannot be run without
rosetta"?

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> 
>>(its everything but a Mac because it is incompatible to most old 
>>Mac software)
> 
>   Does "incompatible" in your vocabulary mean "cannot be run without
> rosetta"?

No, cannot run "Classic" applications.

	Thorsten

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