Old Mac Mini Crashes after startup

A mac mini at my office keeps crashing right after getting to the desktop (pinwheel of death). However, if I unplug the ethernet cable from the mac mini, it can start up with no issue. It's a powermac 10,1 (PowerPC G4), it's definitely older. It's running tiger. How can I get this computer to start up with no issue while the ethernet cable is plugged in?

When the cable is plugged in after it boots, it's just a matter of time before it crashes again. Anything sets it off. Going to Google, sending an inter-office IM....

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Dear Madams, Dear Sirs,
I should not have updated my Mac Mini today to the latest Mac OS X from 10.9.3 to the latest 10.9.4. Now i feel like 2007, before i switched from Microsoft Windows to Mac :-(
Long story short, the 10.9.4 update let my system crash four times today since i update the computer a bit earlier. Any ideas what i can to?
Was reading some messages and this EtreCheck extract might help, and YES, how you can see i was stupid enough not to run TimeMachine on this machine since i switched from my 24" iMac earlier this year, i feel bad, very bad, but can't change history.... so, any ideas what to remove/kill?
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Every hint is welcome, cheers!
Ben
EtreCheck version: 1.9.12 (48)
Report generated 30. Juli 2014 18:10:21 MESZ
Hardware Information:
Mac mini (Late 2012) (Verified)
Mac mini - model: Macmini6,1
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
16 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)
DELL U2414H spdisplays_1080p
DELL U2414H spdisplays_1080p
System Software:
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 0 days 0:27:40
Disk Information:
APPLE HDD HTS545050A7E362 disk1 : (500,11 GB)
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
HDD (disk1s2) /Volumes/HDD: 499,76 GB (499,32 GB free)
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 1TB disk0 : (1 TB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
SSD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999,35 GB (837,99 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
Dell Dell AC511 USB SoundBar
LGE Nexus 4
Logitech Trackball
Apple, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Information:
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.3.6) Support
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.3.6) Support
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.3.6) Support
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.3.6) Support
Launch Daemons:
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support
[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist Support
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.startup.plist Support
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[running] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist Support
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support
[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist Support
[not loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist Support
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iTunesHelper
Android File Transfer Agent
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FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 65 Check version
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 2.0.0.0 - SDK 10.7 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
Audio Plug-ins:
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
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Flash Player Support
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Time Machine:
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Top Processes by CPU:
      4% firefox
      4% WindowServer
      1% fontd
      1% Creative Cloud
      0% OneDrive
Top Processes by Memory:
459 MB firefox
229 MB mds_stores
213 MB OneDrive
213 MB Mail
115 MB Safari
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11.55 GB Free RAM
2.56 GB Active RAM
708 MB Inactive RAM
1.20 GB Wired RAM
651 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs

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Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
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One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
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Shlubtastic wrote:
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