Jaguar crashes too much

[cltucker]

Since updating to 10.2 on an iMac graphite 400 mHz, I am having hard crashes frequently and unlike any I've had before. A couple of things will happen:

1) If I try to access the "screen effects" pane of the system prefs, the finder becomes unresponsive. The cursor still moves, but nothing else will happen.

2) If the computer is inactive for a long period of time, it will become inactive. If it goes to sleep, it won't wake up, so long as it's been asleep for some time. If sleep is turned off, it just becomes unresponsive as in number 1.

3) Sometimes when I reboot (particularly after a crash), the hard drive will spin up but the screen stays black. I believe the system is loading, because after the hard drive stops spinning, I can press "power" and then "return" and the computer will turn off, just as if it is at the login screen.

Thanks for any help.

 

[theed]

I'm not sure what was happening, but my wall street was sucking much like your iMac. Hell, I was having crashes during install. Being that it is THE minimum machine, I thought it might actually just suck, and was about ready to write it off as a 10.1.5 machine...

then I fiddled with the CD drive and I might have gotten it in better this time. Perhaps. And I also decided to go with a UFS partition to install X.2 on. whoooooooosh baby, ... well not whoosh, the install took 80 minutes. And I'd say that point toward my drive starting to get crappy. But I think you somehow have a bum install.

I think Apple should include a check utility. Something that would compare MD5 checksum, size, name, and permissions of the base install with what is known good. Then we'd know if we had a bad install. Mine I think was booting badly from the CD to begin with. I was getting video corruption on the installer. Bad contacts on my removable CD drive perhaps?

Anyway, now I'm UFS and loving it. This machine has never been so useful. Granted QE does squat for me on that machine, but it's still just friggin cool. And it's still my second favorite keyboard of all time, beaten out only by the IBM "extra loud quad clicky" keyboard for feel. I'm glad it's still alive.