-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Wacker <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, Jan 12, 2010 10:35 am
Subject: Re: emac with kernel panic? more help still needed
You need to erase and format the HDD to detect bad blocks. and
Archiveand Install defeats the purpose.Your HDD is either bad, or
you've got bad sectors.My G3 imac started throwing the same problem a
few months ago.Luckilly I only use it for music which is stored on an
external drive,so a quick erasure, format, and re-install of the OS
turned up an iMacthat booted 45% faster, didn't make funny noises, and
still runsgreat.Hope that helps.
-That's what I think at this point. I've run the hardware testing tool
that comes with Apple Care, compliments of my intel based Macbook, and
it doesn't show the hard drive as bad or going bad with bad sectors. So
I guess I'm going to just replace the hard drive and pray that is the
problem.
Thanks to everyone that has been able to shed some light on the
subject. Nice that I'm actually able to have my posts go through now
too.
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