Random eMac Kernel Panics

[Goftrey]

Every now and then my little eMac goes bezerk, say I unplug my iPhone or plug a camera in for instance, it decides to tell me to shut him down, sometimes as well, when I'm booting up it goes into a kernel panic... It's running 10.5.8 Leopard BTW, look at my sig. for the specs, cheers guys

 

[adcx64]

Try reinstalling Leopard. My eMac gives me problems when my printer is connected during startup.

 

[Intell]

Your eMac may have bad capacitors. Do you know if it had its logicboard replaced by Apple?

 

[Goftrey]

Your eMac may have bad capacitors. Do you know if it had its logicboard replaced by Apple?

I was dreading that... I don't know if it's had its logicboard replaced as I only got it a few weeks ago, from a seller who claimed it had been checked for the capacitor issue and he said it was all good...

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Try reinstalling Leopard. My eMac gives me problems when my printer is connected during startup.

I unfortunately don't have Leopard disks, the Mac came with Leopard pre installed, I only have, Jaguar, Panther & Tiger on me at the moment...

 

[666sheep]

It's quite easy to check caps in eMac. If it will be your first time opening such box, PM me for service manual.

Back to KPs -> it could be bad RAM, corrupted HDD or system files.
If it would be RAM, KPs should happen frequently. So I bet on HDD/OS files.

Bad caps are causing freezes or blue screens rather than KPs.

 

[Intell]

Bad caps are causing freezes or blue screens rather than KPs.

One of my eMac's had KP's caused by bad caps.