[G4] Help for my G4

[John Baltutis]

On 8/19/10, John Gilbert <gilbert2330 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> My G4 has given me about two years of faithful service until recently.
> Beginning about a week ago, it began crashing, giving me a black screen
> message stating I needed to hold the restart button, turning it off. Then
> restart.
>
> Before last week, this had never happened. In the past week,
> it has occurred wayyy too frequently, almost three or four times a day.
>
> Is my power supply going?  Could there be another reason?

Start with these:

"What is a kernel panic" <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1392>,
"Technical Note TN2063: Understanding and Debugging Kernel
Panics"<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2063.html>,
"Mac OS X Kernel Panic FAQ" <http://www.index-site.com/kernelpanic.html>,
"Resolving Kernel Panics" <http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html>, and
"Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics"
<http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060911080447777> for more details.