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Jun 27, 2008, 02:09 PM
 
Hi guys,
anyone tell me what this means apart from -time to purchase new comp !!
Its and old G3 running OS X, I bought it off an on line auction site and it went ok for a while...not too worried if its kaput as I bought it to mod the case but if i can get it going.....

" System failure: cpu=0; code=00000009 (invailid id map)
Latest crash info for cpu 0;
exception state (sv=0x227c5500)
PC=0x0009fBDO; MSR=0xEFCA4C9E; DSISR=0X40000000; LR=0X0009FB4C; R1=0X8E008021; XCP=0X00000098 (System failure)
Backtrace:
backtrace terminated- unaligned frame address: 0x8E008021

Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x227C5500)
PC=)x00003680; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0xBFFFD74; DSISR=)x0A000000;LR=0x00002FF8; R1=0xBFFFD80; XCP=0000000C; (ox300-D a access)

Kernel version:
Darwin kernel version 8.10.0: Wed May 23 16:50:59 PDT 2007; root xnu-792.21.3~1/RELEASE_PPC
Memory access exception (1,0,0)
ethernet MAC address; 00:00:00:00:00:00
ip address 0.0.0.0
Waiting for remote debugger connection. "


Whew.. that took a while to type !
Thanks for any help in advance.
     
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Jun 27, 2008, 03:38 PM
 
Have you added any new memory to the system? Sounds like it may be faulty. If it's not memory, it could be the hard drive, it must be quite old by now.
     
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Jun 27, 2008, 09:25 PM
 
Thanks for the reply. Haven't changed anything, my guess would be the HDD. Cest la vie.
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