A Mac issue

Xantar · 10-07-2003, 05:05 PM

Yeah, I've already scoured the Apple support website. It hasn't really turned out to be too helpful. Besides, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask you guys.

So here's the problem. I have a 400 Mhz G4. I got it from eBay. As far as I can tell, it hasn't been modified except with 128 MB of additional RAM (for a total of 384 MB) and the hard drive has 80 GB of space (I don't think that big a hard drive comes standard with a non-quicksilver G4). It's running OS X.2.8 (beautiful OS, by the way). There are no external devices attached to it.

So those are the specs. The problem is when I put the computer to sleep for a while (like an hour or two), I can't wake it up again. I press a key, the screen comes on, and then after a few minutes during which time the cursor swirls, the screen gets overlaid with gray and a text pops up in English, French and some other language (I think it's Chinese) saying that I have to restart my computer.

I've read that this is called a kernel panic, but I'm not sure about it. Also, I heard that OS X.2.8 has been causing problems with computers. Do you guys have any ideas about what to do?

P.S. Before you say it, suggesting, "Get a Windows machine" isn't very helpful. And saying, "Macs suck ha ha" is just going to make me think you're an idiot.

Bond · 10-07-2003, 05:17 PM

That's actually a very interesting question. I've had the same problems a few times on my new computer, but have never really given it much thought.

Ace195 · 10-07-2003, 05:22 PM

Hmm you might want to uninstall and reinstall the OS but I'm not good with macs

GameMaster · 10-07-2003, 11:21 PM

The "Kernel" issue is one of the very few Mac viruses I believe.

Insert your Mac OS X CD into the computer and choose to do the "Clean Install". It'll carefully collect your additions and move them to a separate folder while you update the System Folder, then move them back to the right places inside the new one with a single click! Making your Mac nice and clean again!

sdtPikachu · 10-13-2003, 04:13 PM

If the computer is having a kernel panic, then you should be able to view the logs of the kernel panic once it reboots, although I've no idea how you get it on a Mac. Sounds a bit like this dude...

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...com%26rnum%3D1

Also:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...com%26rnum%3D2

Ummm... good luck!