Crashing G4

[dufftrio]

I have a mirrored doors G4, dual 1 gig, w/ DP 4.52 and a PCI 424 to a 2408 mark II.

Having a lot of trouble crashing frequently. Is it possible that it is because the energy saver has been on?

Any other solutions?

[wolfetho]

You didn't mention if you're using Tiger or not? If so, I have a g4 dual 1.25 ghz w/ Tiger which was crashing alot with DP 4.52. I was also getting alot of Kernel Panics. The problem seems to be solved
by doing a clean install of Tiger. Originally I upgraded to Tiger doing an archive and install of the OS.Everything is much more stable after doing a clean install.

Tom

[dufftrio]

It was crashing with 10.3.8, and it was crashing after a complete clean install of 10.4.1.

Really suspecting the energy saver, and scren saver was the culprit. Has calmed down considerably after turnign them off.

Thanks

[folknbluzn]

purchased a new 14" ibook with g4, 512mg, 1.42ghz and tiger 10.4.2. loads everything ok, even past work from my external HD, however, whenever i hit play or record, the audiodesk 2 software crashes?????????? any suggestions? I have downloaded 2 updates from motu

[midiw]

Originally posted by Jeff Duffield:
I have a mirrored doors G4, dual 1 gig, w/ DP 4.52 and a PCI 424 to a 2408 mark II.

Having a lot of trouble crashing frequently. Is it possible that it is because the energy saver has been on?

Any other solutions?

When did this start?

When does the crashing occurr?

This info may help give you some pointers/check this type of information/guidance.

Incdiently, are you doing the required system maintenance?

[jonnyfive]

I was recently having lots of instability problems. It seemed hard to track, I did alot of troubleshooting and as a last resort I sent my RAM back to the manufacturer. Everything is just peachy now. If you have gotten new RAM recently (even if it passes Hardware tests) I would suspect it. Besides most RAM chips have waranties, and for the price of shipping its worth a try.
As far as symptoms went, all my programs were affected, but mostly audio/graffic intensive ones. lots of "kernel protection failure, bad access exceptions". And just for the record, it seemed to get worse from 10.3.7 onward.

Worth a try.
Jonny

[dufftrio]

Thanks for the help folks.

The Mac tech scoped it out, and we found out there has been heat damage to the logic, and it is $800 to repair.

So I went out and bought a G5!