Hi all, I have the eMac 1.25 gHz with 1 gb of ram. Owned since new. Replaced motherboard once under warranty a few years ago.
Had been running 10.3.9 until May. Installed Tiger 10.4.11 and have been using it smoothly ever since. Last week, I got my first ever kernel panic. Screen said, "you must shut down ... " etc. I ran everything I knew how to for diagnostics - which was only the Utilities and then Onyx to clear all caches and tidy up stuff. It ran smoothly after this so I thought it was okay again. Today it crashed with same kernel panic. But - when I forced reboot, it would only show the apple icon and spinning thing - then slowly it went to a blue screen. Blue screen flickered, but did nothing to finish booting. The Tiger disk I have isn't for the eMac specifically. So I took my eMac original disks out (with 10.3-something.) and ran the hardware test. It came up with a memory error: Erorr code 2MEM/104/4:DIMM1/J1 I read some obscur post somewhere that said it is possible that when upgrading OS the old RAM will be obsolete. I don't know which OS's it was talking about though. Could this be my problem? I only know enough to be dangerous about diagnostics - so your advice would be very appreciated. If it is the RAM, is it both chips? If I could limp along with only one for a while, that would be workable - no cash for replacement or repair. Hoping you can help me learn what I need to get the eMac running again. Thanks, -Lynn / Wren -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
