You wrote: Thanks, Harry. I located the folder and printed it out. Its Greek to me. How do I translate it? Can I send you a copy of it and ask you to translate? JG > Greetings John, > > You need to read or print out some of the "Console Log File" > You will find the log files at ~/applications/utilities/console > I'm sure that the reason for you platform crash is listed in there somewhere. > > Cheers > > Harry > San Jose, Ca > ============================================ > On Aug 19, 2010, at 8:32 AM, John Gilbert 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? >> >> -- >> John Gilbert >> gilbert2330 at earthlink.net >> 407-462-8673 - c >> 407-628-5856 - H >> >> _______________________________________________ >> G4 mailing list >> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 -- John Gilbert gilbert2330 at earthlink.net 407-462-8673 - c 407-628-5856 - H -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20100819/49dc5360/attachment.htm>