[MacTUG] System crash and then

[Glenn Anderson]

It maybe a motherboard issue or hard disk issue, I know of another  
user with an 24" iMac where they system was acting very strangely and  
their system turned out to have a problem on the motherboard and a bad  
drive ( both needed replacement).

I would suggest arranging for the IST hardware guys to run their  
hardware tests on it and check to see if the underlying problem is  
hardware, before spending too much time playing around looking for a  
software solution.

On 14-May-09, at 10:01 AM, Marlon A. Griffith wrote:

> Hello,
>
> To summarize, my question is "what could cause the behaviour below,"  
> hardware or software?
>
>
>
> Symptoms
> --------
> - program froze
> - the only way to recover was to hard reboot the system
> - after several hard reboots, had a kernel panic
> - fsck would fix and system would run for five minutes then hang
> - was able to archive and recover once, system stayed up for at  
> least an hour and then hung
> - had to use, system disk to boot iMac
> 	- only using the option key shows the internal hdd
> 	- yet, disk utility on system disk says that hdd is fine when  
> verified
> - erase hangs when, I select clean install on system disk
>
>
> Specs
> -----
> - 2007 24" iMac with a 250 GB hdd
> - 10.4.10
> - 2 GB of RAM
>
>
> Marlon, x38146
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