Crashing over and over and over and over....

**missyboots1** · July 5th, 2006, 12:31 PM

Hello

I have a Ibook G4 and have just wiped and reinstalled 10.3 after continual crashing. The machine came with 10.3 , which was upgraded to 10.4 after 2 years, ran a year before this problem and is now back to 10.3 (!!!)
The crash is both a frozen blue screen with a the occasional grey language prompt.

The hardware cd tells all is well.

I have removed 256 ram and the problem persists.

I tried to rum Rember for the remaining 125 Ram to see if thats the problem and its keep crashing so I cannot complete the test.

I have run the disk utility repair permissions several times completely and the problem persists.

If I have wiped the Laptop, reinstalled what else can it be...could it still be the internal 125 of memory ?

I am not in any way techy, I just keep scouring the net in desperation.

Any advice greatly appreciated !

Thanks

Helen

**Satcomer** · July 5th, 2006, 01:33 PM

Well you are on the right track thinking it is hardware. The included hardware test is not very good because it just looks for obvious hardware errors. To see if the hard drive is still good you will have to play Unix guru. However it is not that hard. We will have to boot into single user mode and run a test. So follow these tests:

1) Restart the Mac while holding down the Command key (the clover key)+the letter s.
2) Hold the command button+s until a black screen appears with writing on it.
3) At the first chance it gives you a prompt, type these letter: fsck -fy
(Make sure there is a space between fsck and the -fy)
4) Let the test run. It will check throughly your hard disk. Wait a couple of minutes until the test finishes. The output of the test should say all is well. If the output say something is wrong, run the test again (fsck-fy). Sometimes the program can right over or skip over a bad sector on the disk. If the second test still does not fix the problem, you have a bad hard disk.
5) To get out of single user mode just type ate the prompt: reboot
6) The Mac will reboot into normal mode.

Also OS X has a "Safe Mode" you can boot into. The "Safe Mode" will turn off all third party add-ons to see if one of those is messing with the system. To boot into "Safe Mode" just restart holding down the "shift" key. Booting into "safe mode" with tell you if one of your third party applications is to blame for the problems.

Lastly I believe your first idea that it is a hardware problem is right on the money. You just have to find what hardware is messing up. Good Luck.

**2smuth** · July 5th, 2006, 01:34 PM

When mine did that it was the logic board, are you under the extension for a new MB? Check out:
http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/

**missyboots1** · July 5th, 2006, 01:42 PM

hello

Thanks for the advice..the fsck -fy tells me the HD is ok. I ran it twice. Will now put into safe mode and see if it freezes.
Im no longer under warranty...bet the MB is very expensive ??