iBook keeps freezing with a restart screen

[jne381]

My friend has an iBook that keeps freezing. This startup screen appears every time. Though I have seen it before, it never reoccurred for me. Any ideas what is causing this.

 

[soberbrain]

That's a kernel panic in OS X, it's like the "blue screen of death" from Windows.

I got a couple of those, once from installing bad RAM and another from installing beta software for old webcams.

Did your friend install any hardware or software right before this started?

 

[natebookpro]

are the fans spinning up? it could very well be the logic board.

 

[Batt]

Look in Library>Logs>panic.log. You'll likely see that the problem is the AirPort card. I've gone through this with the G4 iBook I gave my daughter. Turn off AirPort and the problem will go away.