Okay--Thanks, Tom. Guess I have my weekend entertainment right here.
Jennifer H.
On Jul 4, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
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
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