On Oct 11, 11:37 pm, wren <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > <snip> > It came up with a memory error: Erorr code 2MEM/104/4:DIMM1/J1 > <snip> > Thanks, > -Lynn / Wren
Unfortunately this sounds like the all too common capacitor fault that affects many of the 1.25Ghz eMac's, open the door on the underside and have a look at the capacitors (aluminium cans about 1 inch high and a quarter of an inch in diameter with either a black or brown label ). if any are bulged on the top or leaking (white or brown crusty deposits on the top or around the base) then they need to be changed as the problem will only get worse until you can only boot in safe mode. Sorry if this sounds like gloom and doom, but I can speak from experience as I had this happen to my son's eMac, thankfully I am a test engineer and could do the repair myself. Ben. -- 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
