instability becoming an issue

[mschenck]

I'm a fairly hardcore Unix guy, so I guess I'm a switcher in this case.... I expect fair good stability out of a Unix computer, which my Mini (OS X) is. I have a 1.42 ghz mini running 10.3.... 1 gig of ram and a 60 gig 5400RPM harddrive.

My problem is simple. This computer locks on me almost every other day, Whether I'm coding in Xcode and running iTunes, then random lock. Or my girlfriend is using iChat and browsing ebay, it just happens. This is a 24 hour on computer, so the hard drive swap might be a heat issue, however other issue have occured like, she can't even open her log files for iChat otherwise the whole computer locks, however if I use my iChat I can open my log files with out issues.

I have been very pleased with my switch to Mac, which is why I've shifted my development efforts to OS X, however these instability issues are becoming very disappointing.

Any advice will be appriciated, however I must say, I'm not just going to buy Tiger and load that on, unless I know it will solve problems.

[iMav]

Did you swap the RAM yourself? That would be my first guess.
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