Thanks for the info, Jim. If it's a hardware problem, I've got a lot of
things to check; the PCI slots are all full: a USB card, a SCSI card, a
video card for a 2nd monitor, and a SATA controller card running two of
the three internal hard drives.
I'm betting it's the SCSI card, if it's anything. I've never had
anything but trouble with SCSI, for years.
Tom
On Dec 29, 2005, at 5:46 PM, James Sanderson wrote:
While this may not be a lot of help, I was told by--I believe it was
Bruce Johnson--that kernel panics are induced by hardware issues not
by software issues. Anything changed recently hardware-wise? I had
a B&W that was giving me panics intermittently at first, then after a
few months it became consistent. It was the Rev 1 board's IDE
controller, best as I could determine. I know yours is a QS, so it
could be a different issue. But look to your hardware. HTH
Jim Sanderson
On 29 Dec 2005, at 13:50, Tom Baker wrote:
G4 Quicksilver running OS 10.3.9. Every few startups this Mac goes
neurotic and I get the green kernel panic screen with the "You must
restart your Mac" message. Restarting from that nearly always results
in a normal startup, and I am not noticing any problems during use.
So what's going on?
I have repeatedly repaired permissions and done the fsck -fy thing,
and get reports that all is normal. There are three internal and
three external drives connected to this Mac, and I have run Disk
Utility repairs on all of them. Remembering the OS-9 days of dumping
prefs, I also threw out the finder.plist. and restarted.
Nevertheless, every few startups, I still get that kernal panic
screen: "You must restart your Mac."
I'm thinking now about an Archive and Install. Would that be a good
idea?
Or, does anyone have any other ideas how I can cure this neurotic
computer of its panic attacks on startup?
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