G4 Freezes

[nixgeek]

Good to know, actually. Is it with the built-in screensavers, or did you install a third party one? If it's a third party one, just remove it and see if things go back to normal.

[AlexAlexAlex]

Thanks.

Checked the system.log which showed a crash reported at library/logs/crashreporter/preview.crash.log

Looks like the application preview crashed? although I'm sure I didn't have it on at that point

not sure what the important information in the crash report is but for starters it said:

Exception:EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x34908ba0


had another look through the system.log again and the message (which i mentioned earlier in this thread) which runs during the start up procedure:

localhost kernal: ROM ndrv for ATY, Rage128PD is too old (0xb6246498)

is still sticking out as a pointer to the video card also... (like i mentioned before I can find any updated drivers for this card)

Feel like I'm still guessing about something I don't really understand though... (i can say what it says, but i can't say what it means...)

any further clues?
cheers

[AlexAlexAlex]

Sorry Nixgeek forgot to respond to you suggestion for the screensavers...
I only have the one's that come with os X. I set it to 'never' last nignt. The computer did run for the longest single stretch it has in about 2 months after doing that (about 5 hours...) but it still crashed in the end

[AlexAlexAlex]

Just had another look at the system.log after a crash.
don't know if these two might be important:

Feb 25 16:46:34 localhost /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: *** Warning: ATSUSetFontFallbacks has been deprecated. Use ATSUFontFallbacks objects instead. ***

Feb 25 17:09:22 localhost lookupd[236]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local

It didn't actually crash at those points...but still...