Hope someone can help.....here's what i have going on...
I have a PB G4/400 that all of a sudden last week started getting regular kernal panics (the black box with "you need to restart your computer"). I tried to pinpoint when they were happening but there was no consistency. Sometimes it would hang at the blue screen and the little pinwheel would just spin then the black box would show, other times I could get to the startup screens and other times all the way to the desktop and start to use it then it would freeze/panic.
Luckily, I was able to finish a backup....so I did research and concluded the hard drive was the problem....so I wiped the drive and wrote all new zero's with Disk Utility....that went ok, then during a fresh install it just decided to bail out of the install. hmm...so I used DiskWarrior to see if anything was wrong, nothing....ran it again and during DiskWarrior running it bailed out and restarted on it's own then kernal panic. ugh....so I tried the reinstall again and it for some reason let me go thru everything....installed 10.3...everything going fine....decided to install all the updates and after it finished 10.3.9 back came the kernal panic....first when it got to the desktop and then I restarted and it froze at the blue screen with the pinwheel spinning.
Talked to a local tech and he believed the hard drive was toast.....so I bought a new Toshiba from OWC....installed it and no sooner do I start the install the computer freezes....but not a kernal panic (black box) just the mouse froze on the screen....so I restarted....it allowed me to start the install but then after checking the disc and starting the install of 10.3, it bailed out, went to the blue screen with the pinwheel spinning and that's where it sits right now.
So I'm figuring it's not the actual hard drive but something much worse. any ideas? Is it time to cut my losses on this baby? It's already had the logic board replaced a year ago but it's been flawless since then.
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