Crashed iBook G4

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captjrab

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Hi,
I'll keep it brief as possible. My iBook was crashing alot with the black screen saying "you need to restart your computer". I did a disc utillity permissions verify and repair and erased the hard drive. Next I started to reboot Tiger with the discs that came with the machine. It seemed to load everything up fine until the little movie came on about Mac OSX. The black screen came back on. When I rebooted I got the grey screen ( I think it's called the single user screen) where it says "Welcome to Open Frimware, the system time and date is:.... When i type "mac-boot" it flashes once and goes to an all blue screen with a folder in the center with a question mark on it. One more detail: on the very top of the firmware screen it says:
Illegal instruction at %SRR0: ff85e778 %SRR1: 0008 1000
 
Run Apple Hardware Test. It's on one of the discs that originally came with your Mac (they are model specific); set it up to run in extended, and in loop mode for a few hours. It will stop either for an error, or when the loop is quit.
Basically kernel panics can be for software or hardware - and in this case you have quite a lot eliminated the OS X and software part. So time to see what hardware test says.
 
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