My beloved Pismo has come to be my nightstand machine. It has been
there for a couple of years now --although sometimes it goes places
with me and does real work. I basically read the news, play games, and
watch movies on it. It usually stays open on a stand, but sometimes I
close the lid to give the hinges a break.

Last week I closed it twice. The first time, it gave me a kernel panic
when it opened, and I had to restart it. The second, it just turned
off by itself, and had also to be restarted. Both times, the screen
looked weird when first turned on --like a fine net of dots--, before
going back to normal. I have not closed it again, and it seems to be
doing fine for now.

Has this happened to anybody before? What could be the cause?

TIA,

Felix

P.S. This is a 500Mhz model with a gig of RAM and a 100GB HDD. It runs
mostly 10.4.11, but I occasionally boot on 9.2.2 to play some games
and enjoy Classilla. The screen has been showing the usual pink
discolorations for a while now, which are getting very slowly worse.
But I never had a kernel panic before on this machine. Ever.

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