[G4] Power Supply Problem

[Ronald Steinke]

At 5:17 PM -0500 2/7/05, Joel Threatt wrote:
> After the little spinner on the grey screen came up, a dark background 
> descended then a picture of the power button popped up with a message 
> in a half languages that said I need to reboot my system and told me 
> either to hold the power button for several seconds of hit the reset 
> button.
>

This is a kernel panic, also known as a System Crash. It appears to 
have been caused by the RAM chips. Have you tried any different RAM 
chips and had the same problems?

If you test the board with different RAM chips and the problem 
persists, then you have a board problem. If the problem cannot be 
repeated with the different chips, then it points toward the RAM chips 
as being the problem.

Either way, you narrow the selection of causes and are closer to a 
solution to the problem.