 Kernel Panic??!!, My G4 tower won't restart all the way! |
  Wed 11 Jun 2003, 17:01
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Hello good people,
I have a G4 tower, 512MB RAM, 800 MHz processor, OS X 10.2.4, 40 gigs harddrive. I think it may be "kernel panic" which I read about in previous posts with similar error messages. Halfway thru restarting I get a "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power Button for several seconds or press the restart button", with what non-english alphabets at the bottom. Again and again I try and get the same message. I have a MOTU Fastlane Midi USB interface and a firewire cable for a camcorder connected to my machine(camcorder is unplugged from cable). I don't know where or how to begin to resolve this problem as I can not even get the machine started. I would appreciate some advice to nudge me in the right direction without risking the loss of data on my harddrive. Thanks in advance. 
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Mon 16 Jun 2003, 16:32
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 11-Jun 03 From: Washington - US Member No.: 19,509 |
I have tried what the webmaster and weaze1 suggested. After I
verified and repaired my disk and permissions,both using Disk Utility and using the "fsck command", I get an "Invalid sibling link" error. I quit disk utility and restarted holding down the option key to start up from the harddrive but now I get two white stripes going across my monitor. As I'm not a Unix guru I couldn't understand the other options offered by pressing apple-v or s, so I didn't try those. I don't mind re-installing my software from scratch but I really don't want to lose the data I have on my harddrive. Does this mean that I am left with no more options? 
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macintarian Kernel Panic??!! Wed 11 Jun 2003, 17:01
Soif except if you're used to unix, i would suggest... Wed 11 Jun 2003, 21:56 TheWeaze1 Turn the computer off, then on. Hold down shift r... Thu 12 Jun 2003, 11:26 macintarian Thanks a lot Webmaster and TheWeaze1, I will try y... Thu 12 Jun 2003, 14:50 lepetitmartien macintarian, the switch would have allowed you to ... Fri 13 Jun 2003, 03:59 macintarian Thanks lepetitmartien,
On trying to install Mac O... Fri 13 Jun 2003, 05:39 TheWeaze1 omg, don't erase anything. Did you try those ... Fri 13 Jun 2003, 09:24 macintarian Well, I did not check the erase box, so my old dat... Fri 13 Jun 2003, 14:10 Soif It seems you got a serious HD problem.
Your BEST ... Mon 16 Jun 2003, 17:02 macintarian Thank you much Webmaster, I don't have another... Mon 16 Jun 2003, 17:30 lepetitmartien You can, mind that everything will be erased on it... Mon 16 Jun 2003, 20:02 macintarian New progress, I ran an apple diagnostic test on my... Tue 17 Jun 2003, 14:37 Soif Beleive me BACKUP your data AS FAST AS POSSIBLE (2... Tue 17 Jun 2003, 16:49 macintarian It's me again, well I did what webmaster sugge... Mon 23 Jun 2003, 20:01 macintarian oh I forgot to mention that after installing 10.1.... Mon 23 Jun 2003, 20:09 dixiechicken You can and should install Jaguar on the new HD.
... Tue 24 Jun 2003, 10:14 macintarian Thank you very much dixiechicken and all, that... Tue 24 Jun 2003, 13:19 Soif before re-installing the 1st HD, you should backup... Tue 24 Jun 2003, 17:46
macintarian Finally!! I finally was able to spend som... Mon 30 Jun 2003, 15:49 |
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