(OT) System crashes...

[Charles Martin]

> From: YangZone at aol.com
>
> Am getting System Crashes. 'Used to be once a week, now 3-4 times a 
> day on my Powerbook 800 1G 10.2.6. ('Been happening since 10.2.3)
>
You should NEVER have let this go on so long! A kernel panic (what you 
are describing) should NEVER be happening in normal use. That's right, 
NEVER. The only restarts should be from when you install system-level 
software. Don't accept kernel panics! They are verboten in the new 
regime! :)

>  'Have run Disk Warrior, Disk Optimizer X and latest virus defs.
>
I doubt this will solve the problem, but have you repaired permissions 
using Disk Utility?

>  Before doing the dreaded Clean Install would like to know what prefs 
> (sys etc) etc. that I might safely trash to try to resolve the problem

I'm not sure what's so "dreaded" about a clean install. I did one for a 
client recently who was having kernel panics like yours (his problem 
was, I believe, an older version of AOL that did NOT like his updated 
OS). We did an "archive and install" update and it took all of 20 
minutes (and most of that was the prebinding!).

However, before you even do that, my suggestion to you would be to 
create a new user on your system (admin level). Log in, don't add 
anything just stick with the defaults as much as possible, and then do 
the things you normally do with your computer. If the problem 
re-occurs, then you probably have a hosed system (or bad RAM -- added 
any RAM since 10.2.3?). If it doesn't, then the culprit is some 
third-party item.

_Chas_
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