Ok, I will try the shift button at start and see what happens. On 6/14/10, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 8:33 AM -0400 6/14/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: >>I zapped the PRAM already. It goes like this. I turn it on, the >>Apple logo shows up. The grey wheel spins until the Mac OS X window >>with a light blue Apple ahows up and says "Loading Mac OS X" and >>after the window disappears or is done loading, the screen turns a >>darker shade of blue and it says "you newed to restart you computer" >>in like 5 different languages with a giant restart button in the >>background. > > Ok. See, that's important information. You got past the spinning > gear - so the OS is loading and it's happy with the hardware, > including the first DIMM. You got past the full load of the kernel > and Aqua too. Once that progress dialog goes away, the login process > starts. At that point, various daemons are finishing their init and > some memory is getting chewed up. If you've got it set to > auto-login, then your user's login items are also starting to run. > > That it panics at that point would indicate a memory problem, most likely. > > But again, as I posted before -- the details are in the system and > panic logs. Look at them. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list >
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