EVERYTHING crashes!

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I'm a PC guy who just bought a Mini yesterday. While I'm impressed with OS X (always wanted to use it but couldn't justify the prices until the Mini came out), I'm having major problems right now!

Every ten or fifteen minutes, like clockwork, EVERY running application is forcefully exited, including the desktop (I guess this is Finder crashing?).

Any ideas? When I first started setting up my Mini for a couple hours yesterday I wasn't having these problems, i.e., before I upgraded to 10.3.9.

I should also add -- I'm very familiar with FreeBSD and all that. I checked /var/log for anything relevant, but couldn't find logs that might help me out. Any ideas where I should look?
 
Yep, open Console.app. Shows you the important stuff. But with the recent troubles with 10.3.9, I suggest you better clean install the OS that came with the mini and stay with that until all issues are resolved...
 
Out of curiosity (and without offering anything helpful), what did you install?

Also, if you enable Remote Login ([Apple] > System Preferences > Sharing > Services > Remote Login), you might be able to log into your machine using ssh from a different computer. Depending on how deep the crash goes, you might be able to monitor activity from there during an event.

I've also moved over recently, but I have had no stability problems at all (Japanese keyboard problems galore, but no major crashes). Hmmm... Actually, there was one program I installed that continually crashed my dock (I had to log in again to reestablish the dock) and was also nightmarish memory hog (as it is in Windows). The problems vanished when I stopped using it and installed an open-source alternative instead. I've found in general, memory issues are more critical on a Mac than in Windows, so you might want to monitor memory usage first.
 
What kind of keyboard & mouse or other hardware are you using with the mini? The suggestions posted here are good ones.
 
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