You have done way too much to claim just "very basic Mac knowledge."
Kernel panics are almost always hardware problems. The Apple Hardware Test may find a problem, but it ain't enough to rule out hardware problems. I usually track these down by removing all suspects. Unplug all peripherals and any cards except the video. Unplug the hard drive. Remove all but 1 memory DIMM. Boot from a CD and let it sit for a few hours. If it still kernel panics, try again with a different memory DIMM. If it still kernel panics, you probably have a bad motherboard and that will be too expensive to repair. If no kernel panic, put the hard drive back and boot off that. Then keep adding stuff back until the kernel panics return. >My until-now trusty G4 running 10.3.9 is having nearly daily kernel >panics, and I have reached the end of my very basic Mac knowledge. I >wonder if someone could help. So far I have > reset PRAM/NVRAM; > run the Apple Hardware Test more than once; it passes all each time; > repaired permissions on the HD; > run fsck multiple times; the file system appears to be OK; > verified the HD from my OSX install disk as well as resident disk >utility. >Kernel panics happen under safe boot as well as normal. This is a 466 >MHz PPC G4 with 640 MB SDRAM. I appreciate any insight you have! Some >excerpts fr ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
