I have an iMac G5 that has a couple strange problems. The problem has been happening ever since I got it from my company about 3 years ago. While it was at the office, I know it had been taken into the shop a number of times for some work (don't know exact what the issue was). I do know that they replaced the motherboard and the hard drive. All that said, here's the issue... If I let it sit idle, the screensaver will kick in and work fine. Eventually, the screen will go black and the system will go to sleep. I can see the power light slowly pulsing. Everything is fine. When I return to the computer, I press the Shift key to wake up the system. It responds by making some 'hey I'm waking up noises' (e.g. hard drive spinning up, perhaps) and the power light stops pulsing. This is where it all goes south. The screen never returns. It stays black. Then, the grand finale... The system fan kicks into very high gear. The system will stay in this state until I press and hold the power button to turn it off. It's a bit of an inconvenience when this happens, but it's not a show-stopper. Or is it? This is what happens next. I press the power button to turn the system back on. It goes through it little screen flashes and wipes and eventually the Apple logo appears. IF the little spinny thing appears under the logo, all is good and the system will boot normally. If it doesn't appear, the next float in this parade is a kernel panic error screen. If I turn it off and back on, it'll probably do it again. If I turn it off and let it sit for at least 15 minutes, it'll probably work normally.
Every once in a while, I get the kernel panic screen out of the blue. YouTube and Craigslist seem to give it fits for some reason. Any ideas? Thanks, Lonnie. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
