Kernel Panic Attack

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Emmac

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My G4 Powerbook is experiencing a perpetual series of "kernel panic" attacks, in which the Restart prompt screen keeps coming up every time I start the computer. I was in the middle of watching a DVD when the battery went dead; I plugged the computer in, woke it up but was confronted with a black screen. DVD Player failed to resume (perhaps I was a bit impatient) so I forcibly crashed the computer. Next time I started it up, I hit the kernel panic screen, which I've been unable to bypass even after multiple restarts. I was running the OS which came with the G4 (v 10.2?), and tried using a Tiger installation to remedy the problem but with no luck. Still in perpetual panic mode.

Any suggestions?
 
when did the problem first start? After the tiger install? After a software install? After a hardware install. What i am try to get at is we need more information to help you. Kernel Panics are 80% hardware related and/or 20% software related.

What OS X version are you running (i.e. 10.4.5)?
What iBook model do you have?
How much third party RAM?
What does the /Applications/Utilities/Console logs say about crashing?
 
I'm running Panther on a G4 Powerbook and I can't get beyond the Kernel Panic screen to look at the error log. The last application I used was DVD Player.
 
so you can actually boot from the tiger disk without a panic, but you fail to repair the jaguar install?
probably some very corrupt file or filesystem..i would make a clean tiger install.
if you do, make sure to erase the harddrive with 'write zero's' option enabled to detect and disable any bad sectors on the drive
 
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