[MacTUG] System crash and then

[Steve Hellyer]

Anything in log files?

Steve

On 14-May-09, at 10:13 AM, Glenn Anderson wrote:

> 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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