Sure John, I'll take a look and see what I can find. Harry A. Freeman gifutiger at gmail.com Advice is a funny thing; the wise don't need it, and the fool won't listen On Aug 19, 2010, at 8:16 PM, John Gilbert wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4