Thank you all for your replies. I thought my message never made to the list - sorry not to reply sooner.
Apple pulled my eMac in for recall due to the bad capacitors some years ago. When the tech opened it, they showed me the bulging, leaking, cruddy capacitors at that time. Granted, I can only see some of them now when I open the access panel for the RAM, but the ones I see look healthy. Fingers crossed about the rest. Here's what I ended up doing: My HD has two partitions - thankfully. I couldn't boot on partition 1 where the OS lived. No amount of fixing would allow it to boot. I even tried installing over top of the old OS and archiving the old system - still wouldn't boot. Installed a clean OS on partition 2. Booted like a champ from 2. I pulled one stick of RAM, ran the hardware test again.Test failed that stick. Swapped the failed stick for the other one, ran hardware test again and it passed fine for stick 2. Ran the hardware test a few times - and it seems to be happy now. Re-installed the OS on partition 1 as a clean install - which wiped out everything - and then it all booted fine from partition 1. An Apple tech told me that kernel panics can damage data - and I assume that's what damaged the OS. Ran all the diagnostics that I have available - and everything seems fine. Fingers crossed. It has been running for a couple days now without a hitch. I am hoping that the replacement board/capacitors they gave me a couple years ago aren't going to be croaking on me any time too soon. I need to get some work done to earn some money to replace the eMac and my ailing Pismo! If they can just limp along for a few months ..... *fingers crossed* I think I can stand working with only 512 mb of RAM for a little while. Is there anything you think I should do at this point? Thank you all. (My replies might be delayed because I'm new and I have to wait for moderation.) -- 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
