<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings John,<div><br></div><div>You need to read or print out some of the "Console Log File"</div><div>You will find the log files at ~/applications/utilities/console</div><div>I'm sure that the reason for you platform crash is listed in there somewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Harry</div><div>San Jose, Ca</div><div>============================================ <br><div><div>On Aug 19, 2010, at 8:32 AM, John Gilbert wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Verdana">My G4 has given me about two years of faithful service until recently.<br> 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.<br> <br> Before last week, this had never happened.<br> In the past week, it has occurred wayyy too frequently, almost three or four times a day.<br> <br> Is my power supply going?<br> Could there be another reason?<br> <br> -- <br> John Gilbert<br> <a href="mailto:gilbert2330@earthlink.net">gilbert2330@earthlink.net</a><br> 407-462-8673 - c<br> 407-628-5856 - H<br> </font> </div> _______________________________________________<br>G4 mailing list<br><a href="mailto:G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>