Hello all,
I've got a iMac G5 PPC running 10.3.9, with a single external HD connected via Firewire and a wired USB mouse/keyboard.
Fairly recently, it's been experiencing a range of crashing; occasionally, it will be a kernel panic (overlayed text log), or it can be the gray "You need to restart" screen, or finally a solid freeze with no other indication (except the fans revving up).
I've tried a few things; first, disconnecting everything except the mouse/keyboard (which didn't help, it will still crash with my Firewire drive disconnected). Next, wiping my internal harddrive and reinstalling 10.3 (also didn't seem to help). Just today, I pulled out my 2 GB of 3rd party RAM and replaced them with my initial memory... and it booted right up into a kernel panic. :/
Usually, it will panic several times back to back (repeated reboots, usually crashing each time on startup), and then finally come up normally and seem to be working "fine" until it suddenly does it again. I've run fsck in single-user a few times, and it always tells me my disk "seems to be okay".
The crashing seems to happen:
* During certain actions in applications, like closing the window while running a DVD in VLC, or sometimes Flash-based items in Firefox
* On startup, including the gray Apple-logo and spinning circle screen, the blue "Loading" screen, and sometimes right after loading the Desktop
* When telling my computer to shut down sometimes (it will close up the Desktop, go to a blue screen, then panic)
* When navigating webpages in Firefox, for no apparent reason
All of those seem like memory-related problems to me, which is why I was hoping to fix this by putting my old memory back in. :? I had considered buying new memory, or getting a new OS (10.4 is the highest I can go due to Classic needs, at least for right now), but I don't intend on wasting money if neither of those would fix this problem...
Is there a way to check the kernel panic logs on my own, except for whenever it overlays the log and freezes? Or is there any additional information I could provide?
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Posted a kernel log in my second post.
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Thanks a lot!
I've got a iMac G5 PPC running 10.3.9, with a single external HD connected via Firewire and a wired USB mouse/keyboard.
Fairly recently, it's been experiencing a range of crashing; occasionally, it will be a kernel panic (overlayed text log), or it can be the gray "You need to restart" screen, or finally a solid freeze with no other indication (except the fans revving up).
I've tried a few things; first, disconnecting everything except the mouse/keyboard (which didn't help, it will still crash with my Firewire drive disconnected). Next, wiping my internal harddrive and reinstalling 10.3 (also didn't seem to help). Just today, I pulled out my 2 GB of 3rd party RAM and replaced them with my initial memory... and it booted right up into a kernel panic. :/
Usually, it will panic several times back to back (repeated reboots, usually crashing each time on startup), and then finally come up normally and seem to be working "fine" until it suddenly does it again. I've run fsck in single-user a few times, and it always tells me my disk "seems to be okay".
The crashing seems to happen:
* During certain actions in applications, like closing the window while running a DVD in VLC, or sometimes Flash-based items in Firefox
* On startup, including the gray Apple-logo and spinning circle screen, the blue "Loading" screen, and sometimes right after loading the Desktop
* When telling my computer to shut down sometimes (it will close up the Desktop, go to a blue screen, then panic)
* When navigating webpages in Firefox, for no apparent reason
All of those seem like memory-related problems to me, which is why I was hoping to fix this by putting my old memory back in. :? I had considered buying new memory, or getting a new OS (10.4 is the highest I can go due to Classic needs, at least for right now), but I don't intend on wasting money if neither of those would fix this problem...
Is there a way to check the kernel panic logs on my own, except for whenever it overlays the log and freezes? Or is there any additional information I could provide?
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Posted a kernel log in my second post.
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Thanks a lot!
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