Kernel panics happen for a variety of reasons, it could be a RAM module has gone bad. Try swapping them in and out and see what happens. It could be software, try a clean install on one of drive. Also you do not say which drive is acting up, is it the one with the system on it. Drives do fail and or get bad sectors. You can get a large drive pretty cheaply these days, it might be a good investment. It will be faster too. Good luck Brian G4 gigE 1.0 GHz Powerlogix, 1 GB RAM On Jun 26, 2008, at 10:04 AM, J C wrote: > I need help. I have a Quicksilver 2002 933 with 1.5GB ram, 2 hard > drives (80 and 40), Geforce 6200 video card running OSX 10.4.11 and > dual monitors. I keep getting kernel panics and now one of my drives > (40) has crashed. My software programs (mainly Adobe CS3) are > sluggish and crash often. The startup screen is slow as well but > when it finally appears the loading bar is pretty quick. Anybody out > there in etherland have any clue or suggestions about what is going > on? Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions-JWC > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4