Heeeelllpp! everything unexpectedly quits!!

[macattackg4]

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Ok so i have my powerbook g4 for like 4 years never a problem. Now safari unexpectedly quits all the time. also so does anyother application I use. even when downloading updates!
I bought disc warrior and ran it... still didnt fix. I bought a new 1 gig ram card.... still no working, I wiped my harddrive clean and reinstalled mac osx.... still dont work. i dont know what to do?? pllus every once in a while the screen will go dark and a black square will be in the middle and it says something like your system must be shutdown hold the power button for a few seconds to restart. can someone help me?? I sat at a genius bar for 4 hours and they didnt have answer. is there any REAL geniuses out there!!!?

[Marvin]

What does your panic log say in /library/logs and also check out some of the application crash logs which can be in /Users/<name>/library/logs.

Also, what OS version are you on?

[macattackg4]

What does your panic log say in /library/logs and also check out some of the application crash logs which can be in /Users/<name>/library/logs.

Also, what OS version are you on?


Mac osx 3.9 but thats just becuase i have tried installing tiger and updating to the newest versions and is still happens.

the library log says awhole bunch of stuff. what else do you need to know or have any suggestions?

[Marvin]

the library log says awhole bunch of stuff. what else do you need to know or have any suggestions?

:lol: Yeah but what does it say? My telepathic abilities only work on Wednesdays.

The important section is usually around the phrase Thread 0 crashed. Assuming all the crash entries looks similar, just post one of them.

[macattackg4]

:lol: Yeah but what does it say? My telepathic abilities only work on Wednesdays.

The important section is usually around the phrase Thread 0 crashed. Assuming all the crash entries looks similar, just post one of them.

here is one of them

Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000020

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x908611ec objc_msgSend + 0xc
1 com.apple.AppKit 0x92e73708 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVis ibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topView:] + 0x450
2 com.apple.AppKit 0x92ec0308 -[NSFrameView _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVis ibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topView:] + 0x124
3 com.apple.AppKit 0x92ea748c -[NSThemeFrame _recursiveDisplayRectIfNeededIgnoringOpacity:isVis ibleRect:rectIsVisibleRectForView:topView:] + 0xc0
4 com.apple.AppKit 0x92e84648 -[NSView _displayRectIgnoringOpacity:isVisibleRect:rectIsVi sibleRectForView:] + 0x180
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x92e9d674 -[NSView displayIfNeeded] + 0xa8
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x92eae364 -[NSWindow displayIfNeeded] + 0xb4
7 com.apple.Safari 0x0001a44c 0x1000 + 0x1944c
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x92e8e9b0 _handleWindowNeedsDisplay + 0xe0
9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c27f8 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 0x194
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c2094 __CFRunLoopRun + 0x18c
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c69e4 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 0x148
12 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92886e10 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 0xac
13 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9288d4b4 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 0xf4
14 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x928af638 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 0x60
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x92e82248 _DPSNextEvent + 0x180
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x92e98cc8 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 0x74
17 com.apple.Safari 0x0000bda0 0x1000 + 0xada0
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x92ead048 -[NSApplication run] + 0x21c
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x92f69764 NSApplicationMain + 0x1d0
20 com.apple.Safari 0x00007fc4 0x1000 + 0x6fc4
21 com.apple.Safari 0x00054944 0x1000 + 0x53944

does that help?

[Marvin]

There's not much to go on there, can you post the rest of the entry (just select from one date to the next, preferably the most recent one).

Since it keeps happening even after a reinstall, it may be an idea to check your hardware. If you boot your system CD using the 'd' key, it will run your hardware check. Also, do a check of your Ram using this program:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24508

If they don't come up with anything, you can also try zeroing your drive. If you have bad sectors on your hard drive, wiping the drive with zeros should skip out the bad sectors whereas a simple format wouldn't. You do this in disk utility in the security option - just choose 1-pass.