I am getting my white iBook G4 ready to donate. It was behaving fine until I did an erase and install from the original DVDs (Tiger). Now almost every start up and shutdown (and other actions) are met with Kernel Panics.
I have run the extended AHT which found all hardware to be OK. Repairing permissions didn't help. Update to 10.4.11 didn't help.
Any ideas for the next step? The Apple Store geniuses won't help because Mac is too "old".
Thanks!
Jeff
Sounds as though the workload of getting it ready for donation broke something. Have you tried AHT?
Allan
I sure did (the extended AHT said that all hardware was OK).
Any thoughts for a next step?
Jeff
Repair disk
Allan
The Apple hardware test doesn't catch everything. Not even the extended one. Usually after an E&I, if you get kernel panics without restoring from a back up, 98% of the time its a hardware issue somewhere in the computer.
How much RAM is installed? You could try removing the extra RAM and see what happens. Sometimes failing RAM can cause kernel panics. (In fact, it's probably the most frequent cause.) RAM failure could be coincidental with the Erase and Install process.
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