Slow to wake up; "Welcome" screen after archive & install

Thanks for the ongoing help. This board has been a lifesaver many times.
I've had numerous problems with my Rev. B iMac that usually require DiskWarrior to fix. It gets worse every time.
Anytime it shuts down unexpectedly, either because of a power outage or force shutdown, the files are so scrambled that it never gets past the gray screen without the fans running and then shutting down. I have to boot up in target disk mode and fix it with DW from my G3 iMac.
The problems start when I try to open a file or program immediately (less than five minutes) after it wakes up; I get the spinning beach ball for at least ten minutes, and then the computer seems to catch up.
This latest time, though, the files were so screwed that it gave me the "Welcome" screen and wants me to set the computer up from the beginning. I can tell that my files are still there when I boot up in target disk mode, but if I go through with the setup, will they be erased, and what's causing all these problems to begin with? The hardware test didn't show any problems, and both my RAM sticks appear to be OK.
Thanks again for any help.
G5 iMac 2.0 G Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1 G additional RAM

Power outages can cause disk corruption just like a forced shutdown. With a UPS, you can eliminate the frustrations associated with a power loss. Get one.
Even though it passed the hardware test, I would still say that it sounds like a hard drive problem. Take the time to run the extended test and see what it finds.
If it still finds nothing, then I would try creating a new user account. There is no reason that starting up from sleep should give you any problems at all, but by creating a new user account, you can eliminate some possibilities like corrupted plist files and such.
Take a look at Dr. Smoke's <a href"http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/faqs.html"A>FAQs and see if you can find anything that works there.
If you create that new account and there are no further problems, I would either keep using that or do an archive and install of the OS.

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[ 1.278451] [drm] vram apper at 0xD0000000
[ 1.278453] [drm] size 9216000
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[ 1.278455] [drm] pitch is 7680
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video.use_native_backlight=0
acpi_osi=linux
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Best regards
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Last edited by mgs (2014-10-27 10:15:11)

Hello Trilby,
thanks for the reply.
Trilby wrote:If nomodeset worked with the installation medium, why haven't you tried that for the same problem on your installed system?
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QTPro shows reg# but not enabled after archive install

I bought QT Pro when it was 7.0.3 & Pro features worked fine. Then I recently 'archive & installed' my OSX to fix other bugs. Now QT doesn't launch as Pro, even though my 7.0.3 registration # does come up in the registration section. I have not upgraded QT since then, not going to re-buy Pro over and over, and can confirm that it is still 7.0.3 I'm running. Any ideas? Please help.

I think I figured it out. My ATI 9600Pro video card was missing some drivers after the archive/install. I read somewhere that archive/install doesn't necessarily archive eeeeverything.
Anyway, when I launched the ATI monitor program (on a lark) it said 'yo, I'm missing a few things, load up that DVD driver disk again." So I did and badabing, problem appears to have been solved.
QT still doesn't technically SAY it's pro still, but all the features are still there. So that's still a little wierd, but probably a different issue.
So thanks all for the efforts. Hopefully this'll help someone else someday.

Raid0 blue screen after W7 install 890fxa-gd70

Im having a bit of an issue. I have a pair of WD640gb drives and i wanted to go raid0
So i set them up got stripping set and everything seems ok.
I actually install win7 x64 premium just fine but for some reason i can only use the w7 32 drivers.
when the computer does the first restart after the install, it blue screens.
Any help would be much appreciated.

RAID 0 and Windows 7 has been an issue before here in the forum.
If I remember correctly, seldom do, someone found usable drivers somewhere. H-l of a search, but you might try the Search feature, to the right.

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