Troubled eMac

My mother-in-law has a 1.25GB/256 eMac that was running just fine until a few days ago. Applications started crashing regularly, the PMU keeps resetting itself, it will sometimes boot to a black screen with a white cursor in the top left and it suffers kernel panic when attempting to boot to a DVD or external drive.
I tried DiskWarrior via booting the machine in target mode and ran it from my laptop that I use for regular repairs to machines at the office. It found some issues with her HD so I rebuilt the directory. After fixing the problems the HD would refuse to mount and the machine would suffer kernel panic. Pulled the drive and installed a new HD, installed 10.4.3 through Target mode and now the computer will boot sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
I have now been able to boot the machine only using verbose mode and no application will run properly. Also the Finder will repeadedly restart, sometimes giving the dreaded "Finder Flash". Also rebooting in single user mode and running fsck -fy fails to verify the volume.
My last thought is that it could possibly be a RAM issue but I am unsure at this point.
Any suggestions at this point would be most appreciated as I am about at my wits end.

At a minimum I would certainly flip over the eMac, open the access door to the RAM and then remove the ram and reseat it/them back into the RAM slots and see if the reseating helps.
If it does not, how many RAMs are in there (there are two slots so you will have one or two "sticks" installed)? If you have two, then I would try removing one and seeing if the problem goes away. If not, swap out the RAM for the other and see if it goes away. And if it does on either of those two tries, one last thing to do is to move the "good" RAM to the other slot and make sure it STILL works ok, so verify it is indeed the RAM module and not a bad socket.
Then there is also this issue, but your Mac might be out of the three year window to qualify...
http://www.apple.com/support/emac/repairextensionprogram/
Good luck,
Patrick

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He's taken the original iMacs apart to access their hds and doesn't relish dealing with that again. On top of that, I can't help but think that spending at least $200 on parts and service on a 6-year-old computer is really that worth it. It'd have a new internal hd, but old and busted processor and everything else. That's why I was aiming for an external set up.
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The problem is that I can not start up at all. When
it gets to the white screen apple logo, I get a
message saying that "You need to restart the
computer" in multiple languages with this error
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Wellcome to the joys of hardware troubleshooting. Be glad that you don't need to know about IRQs, DMA channels, and IDE master/slave/cable select nonsense.
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It’s my understanding that Safe Boot allows ONLY Apple extensions and Apps to load and this is why it seems to me that the problem must be SW … somehow, somewhere.
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However, if this does not make sense, I would be grateful for readers pointing out my errors and/or flawed plans.

Hi Cosmic (and, per my Southern US heritage, hope yawl are doin fine down under),
Firstly, thank you hugely for guiding me through this eMac puzzle. Your insight that under Safe Boot the ATI video extensions are turned off now has the symptoms I see matching a cause.
Last evening, I did an Erase (Zero out the HD, 1 pass) and a virgin , custom install from the eMac Media DVD that came with the machine; this took the system to Os 10.3.6, and it seemed to let me open more windows than two(2) for several passes, but it still froze, these times leaving no recovered files as a trail.
I decided to use only Apple’s Software Update, under Safe Boot, to sequentially load only system or Java UDs and not let Safari or any iApp stuff bring in foreign SW components(tis strategy caused by finding, last evening, strange troubles with the Font book not validating any font and it displaying most of these incorrectly. This font finding kept me thinking SW had to be the problem instead of heeding your and Alan Jones experience …
All well and good, and when I got to 10.3.9 with all the Java and Security Uds, I could open as many as 4 Apps, but the killer was always testing the “Flurry” screen saver … lots of video here. Yet in Safe Boot, I could open all the Apps in the folder and randomly switch between them with no issues.
Lot of driving chores today kept me from seeing your second reply till late this afternoon, but as I drove I remembered that on my now ancient Power Mac Mirror Door, 2x1Ghz, one of my partitions had 10.3.9 loaded with free Unix scientific SW and Xbench 1.1.3 and Cinebench 2003, both of which test video cards, etc. So, I loaded and made DVDs of these testing apps after running them on the PMMD in the 10.3 partition as well as my normal 10.4.11 main drive. Got them over on the eMac, checked to make sure its fonts were OK, ran the tests under Safe Boot, then saw immediate freezes under Normal Boots, and finally, logged into the Apple site and read your reasoning. Bingo!
I again checked the caps I could see and they matched your ID of them, still, even with a machinists mirror could not see the ones further in … called the school marm and told her we should consider this eM as nearly dead, use its internal organs (HD, RAM, ATA drive) and externals (Keyboards, cables) in our organ donor program. She’s agreed, so it’s a done deal.
So, tomorrow I’ll satisfy my curiosity and do the surgery to remove the innards and see if there is evidence of the caps … sure there will be. BTW, I made my living, till a good severance package induced early retirement , as a PhD level Materials Scientist/Elec Engineer (mostly in chip level packaging and several forays into flat panel electronic displays (LCDs and OLEDS(Orgainc Light Emitting Diodes)). As I looked at the circuit board, these electrolytics seem to be surface mounted, an unusual design even for its day, and I cannot imagine any “shade tree” electrician having much success trying to replace them.
Again, a thank you for your insight. I’ll just have to owe you a beer since I’m doubtful you would get one I’d drop along the seashore. Take good care … and without checking a map, I hope Brisbane is not being flooded.
drsax
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Something more basic: Have the TV connected and ON when you start the eMac. That helps the compuer find the second display. Also look on the TVs options to see if there is a setting for a 4:3 aspect ratio.
Beyond that, I'm out of ideas!

HT201303 Has anyone experienced being a victim of GNU Emacs Api Emulations hacking thru URL's - Feeds - Email - Redirect - Data Scrabling and more? We are unable to stop them because they are super users. They come back and do more damage. Help Please.

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I was told by our local Mac support that this was done by someone that was highly sophicated and they did not know many people that could do this type of damage. I can't image that someone in the Apple community would not know of someone that can assist. The one security company we contacted was around $25,000 to fix this aweful crime.
We just want them stopped and put in jail so we can go back to business before it destoys us completely. They even installed emacs on all of our Iphone and androids. WE are being taped, video recorded and eery key stroke is recored. They are only taking us down in middle America.
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I feel very stupid. reboot solved it

EMac hard drive dead?

My eMac was running slow ... reeeeeeeally slow. Spent ages pondering every mouse click. Just opening folders was agony. I tried the usual round of fixes, some of which helped a little, but after a few hours' use, things would slow down again. Permissions repair got hung up 1/3 of the way through every time. Decided to try Disk Utility from the install disk; it reported an error (2STF/8/3: MAC-10 ata-4 - Master); research suggested that meant hard drive trouble. I tried reinstalling system software and now my Mac can ONLY restart from the Tiger disk --- it can't even mount the hard drive.
Four questions:
1. Does this mean what it looks like --- that the hard drive is dead?
2. Is there any way to access the hard drive at this point?
3. If the drive is dead, is it better to replace the internal drive or just get an external?
4. Any recommendations as to brands/spex on replacement drive?
Thanks in advance.

Drives do die! I gather you don't have an external drive nor another Mac. Hope you don't have any important files to recover either.
I had my iBook drive die a couple of years ago while visiting in Namibia on Christmas eve. It hadn't died completely. The local Apple dealer happened to be in his shop on the 26th. We were able to copy most things onto his computer and I bought an external drive and an OX 10.4 DVD. I set up the external drive with a new system and copied all my files to it. It took over 2 months before Apple were able to supply the correct parts but I was able to continue using the Mac during the wait. The iBook was still within the Applecare warranty period so there was no cost to me for the repairs. This procedure will work provided other components in the eMac are in good order.
Access to the drive depends on how dead it really is. If the drive is not dead you should be able to reformat it from the Instal disc. If this fails then repair is an option.
You will need to check whether any other parts need replacing. With my iBook one of the hardware control modules had to be replaced too. Once you know likely cost you should consider whether a new Mac is a more practical option - if you can afford one. You will get a better machine with better specifications for an effective price of new less repair costs.
In terms of recommendations - an external Firewire drive with more than enough capacity for your needs. The advantage of this is that you can use it with any new computer you choose to buy later.

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