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From: Ivan Marsh <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 March, 2009 11:38:00 AM
Subject: Re: iMac G5 Crashing
Funny you should mention leopard as I am running 10.5.6 there. I don't have a
tiger disk handy to try but I'm not sure if thats it I had a devil of a time
installing from the Leopard disk it kept crashing at the very end so would that
be a leopard issue even? I am just not sure if its running leopard enough to
blame at that point.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Steve R <[email protected]> wrote:
At 2:05 AM -0700 3/17/09, Macuser17 posted:
> I have an iMac G5 that I bought that has some sort of issue that I
> can't figure out. I can turn it on and it gives a healthy chime boots
> and graphics run the whole kit and kabodle then after some time can be
> 30min might be 6hours it just crashes freezes up image locks and thats
> it your done. If you wait just a bit you can usually turn it back on
> or sometimes I have to take the batter and ram out flip it on wait for
> the tone, turn it off and replace parts and then its good to go for
> another random period of time. Any ideas whats up? Ram is brand new,
> hd is brand new, I bought this from someone on ebay who was selling it
> as broken because it booted to the blinking ? screen thought it would
> be an easy fix..... When it runs its a dream but not sure what's up
> with it any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Model
> iMac 20" G5 2.0Ghz ALS
You didn't say what OS you're running. In my case I experienced the
problems like yours starting with Leopard, becoming a daily nightmare
of upwards of 19 kernel panics per day when I upgraded from 10.5.4. I
went back to stability with 10.4.11, and gave the thing away to a
Windows user after I couldn't find a local buyer willing to part with
$300.
Have you checked the logs with Console to see if there's a consistent pattern
with freezes/crashes etc.
It's surprising how much useful info can be gleaned even by a comparative
newbie to Unix - and if not, there are real techies on this list who can read a
syslog in the same way I read a newspaper.....
Ted
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