Powerbook is giving me the Mac version of BSOD, even after reformat!
Hey everyone. Wish I could say I was a happy poster. I've been using Macs since I was 6, and was psyched to get a Powerbook last June for college. It worked flawlessly up until winter break, when it started getting all these weird crashes that became more and more prevalent. Something I'd never seen before--a Mac BSOD where a grey windowshade pulls down and it tells me I need to restart.
This was happening every few minutes--got to the point where I could barely log in. I logged in as another user--it didn't happen so quickly to that user--and did permissions repair. Nothing. Reset PRAMs, etc, everything.
When I got back to school, I noticed that I was low on HD space. Lower than I should have been. When I went to copy my user directory to my external HD, I noticed that though Finder told me my user directory was 46 gigs, I was only copying 7.65 over. I have 20 gigs of music I wasn't going to back up--my iPod is for that--so where were the extra 19 gigs coming from?
Well, my Library, when it was being copied, was 2.1 gigs. That's the version that was backed up.
The library on my home directory? 22 gigs.
I figured something had gone crazily out of control, so I tried to reformat it. Zeroed the disk. Then it wouldn't install off my 10.4 upgrade disk, and when I tried to book off a 10.3 disk from the kid down the hall, the Apple logo fragmented and it wouldn't nudge.
So I started it in target disk mode and installed 10.3 from that kid's laptop. Messy, but it was the only option. Restarted my computer and it seemed to work...then I got the message again. Restarted, and it was fine for a week, during most of which I left it on except for the obligatory restarts for reinstalling programs.
Well, today it started happening again. And the problems are coming more quickly now. I'm kind of surprised that I've managed to type out this message (knock on wood) because normally having my comp on for this long would kill it. But I'm only running Safari, so maybe that's why...I'm not taxing it.
I'm running 10.4 on a Powerbook 12" with 768 megs RAM.
What in the holy **** is happening to my computer? Can anyone suggest a fix that maybe a zeroing of the disk and jerry-rigged install might have missed? Or is this the type of thing where I need to send it back to Apple and pray that they fix it quickly type thing?
Oh, when I copied my files back over from the external HD, I barely copied anything from the (presumably corrupted) Library. My mail and my fonts--that's it.
H.E.L.P. Apple forums, you haven't let me down before...please help now! Has anyone else had this problem? Does any of this make sense?
--Petey
p.s. shots of the BSOD
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Powerbook 12" Mac OS X (10.4.4)
I recently had a client with a similar problem, but hers was on a PowerMac G5. She could be working and she would get random crashes. I updated her to 10.4 from 10.3. After that she could barely get logged in before it would crash. And at times, she didn't even get the grey screen, her computer stopped working.
I finally traced it down to the RAM in her Mac. She had some from a third-party. Once it was removed, and eventually replaced, her Mac has been working fine. You might want to check the RAM in your Powerbook.
Remove one module, test it out. Then put it back in and remove the remaining module. Do you get the same results with both of them? Crashes with only one of them? If only one of them causes the crashes, then you can figure out which module to replace.
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