System wide freezes becoming too frequent

Question

If anyone has some insight about where I could track down what might be causing my entire system to freeze would be highly appreciated! The issue doesn't seem to be application specific, and I've run hardware tests and all the other standard maintenance utilities, which all state everything seems to be ok? One possible suspect I thought it could be was my 2 HDs set to cable select, which I read somewhere can sometimes cause issues. So I switched them to master and slave. After doing so, I ran disk utility to repair permissions and it completely locked up again! I can't even force quit! The complete freeze before that, happened while using safari, so thats what I mean by it doesn't seem to be app specific. Another odd thing about the freezes is sometimes I'll get the strange transparent grey screen with the multilingual white letters telling me to restart by holding down the power button, but other times it just locks up with no wierd screen. This has only seemed to become an issue over the past couple of months or so. I'm not unix scripty savy, but is there some kind of command I can use in terminal or console to possibly find some type of log about the last few strings before a freeze? The panic.logs in console show this
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000002A75998 PC=0x000000000008D55C
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x2C557000)
PC=0x0008D55C; MSR=0x00001030; DAR=0x02A75998; DSISR=0x08000000; LR=0x00015C60; R1=0x199C3D60; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00015E6C 0x0001B0D0 0x0001C0B8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00000000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2C557000)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2CC76280)
PC=0x941A28B8; MSR=0x0200D030; DAR=0x23C3F004; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x941A2438; R1=0xBFFFF090; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x00090C38 0x0009402C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2C557000)
PC=0x0008D55C; MSR=0x00001030; DAR=0x02A75998; DSISR=0x08000000; LR=0x00015C60; R1=0x199C3D60; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x00015E6C 0x0001B0D0 0x0001C0B8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00000000
Exception state (sv=0x2CC76280)
PC=0x941A28B8; MSR=0x0200D030; DAR=0x23C3F004; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x941A2438; R1=0xBFFFF090; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
I have no clue what to make of it all? Or if it even has any relation to my issue. Anyway, suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
PowerMac G4 1.25GHZ   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  
PowerMac G4 1.25GHZ   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Answer 1

I think you are having kernel panics as shown in this Apple doc.#106227. Not all KP screen events are included in that link.
Do everything, in order, in Dr.Smokes Resolving Kernel Panics and don't leave out any steps.
Quote from Dr.Smoke "My FAQ is a roadmap: start at the beginning and work through to the end, following the instruction in the order specified, including the "If all else fails..." section if a cause or resolution is not found in an earlier troubleshooting step therein"
Cheers!
DALE