OK. I've now thinking I should just go buy a new i-Mac.
After installing Leopard on on G4 that already had been updated to Tiger with no problems things started to creak and eventually the Kernal panic story came. After a lot of messing around I eventually decided to start from scratch and erased the drive. Seemed like I had bad RAN (the internal DIMM) so I replaced this. After replacing the RAM I ran the complete suite of advanced tests from Tech Toll Pro and all passed with flying colors. Then strarted installing programs. I life 08. All going well until I tried Mail and it kept dying and needing restart. Thought it might be a bad install of mail so went on to I-photo and while importing photos from a CD the dreaded window of death (you must restart your computer) came. I read this is a new form of Kernal panic but cannot get the text to give you further details.
Cannot strt in DSAFE mode but Verbose works. Text comes up then it disappears and the normal desktop screen wipes it out.
Something is wrong somewhere, it's probably not terminal but unless you guys have ideas then my only other option is to pay Apple to take a peek. I'm wondering if it's worth the money or I should just stump up the $1500 for a new beauty?
Let me know what ideas you have.
My firmware is 4.5.9f1
Thanks
After installing Leopard on on G4 that already had been updated to Tiger with no problems things started to creak and eventually the Kernal panic story came. After a lot of messing around I eventually decided to start from scratch and erased the drive. Seemed like I had bad RAN (the internal DIMM) so I replaced this. After replacing the RAM I ran the complete suite of advanced tests from Tech Toll Pro and all passed with flying colors. Then strarted installing programs. I life 08. All going well until I tried Mail and it kept dying and needing restart. Thought it might be a bad install of mail so went on to I-photo and while importing photos from a CD the dreaded window of death (you must restart your computer) came. I read this is a new form of Kernal panic but cannot get the text to give you further details.
Cannot strt in DSAFE mode but Verbose works. Text comes up then it disappears and the normal desktop screen wipes it out.
Something is wrong somewhere, it's probably not terminal but unless you guys have ideas then my only other option is to pay Apple to take a peek. I'm wondering if it's worth the money or I should just stump up the $1500 for a new beauty?
Let me know what ideas you have.
My firmware is 4.5.9f1
Thanks