Alright, I know this seems to be a common problem, and I've done an insane amount of searching and reading about this, but nothing has helped so I'm seeing if you guys can help me. I'm running Mac OS X 10.3.9 in a 14" iBook G4 1.33 GHz with 768 MB RAM. My iBook keeps freezing on me at random times. Sometimes during startup at the blue screen, sometimes at the password type-in screen, and sometimes when I'm actually using the computer. It happens dozens upon dozens of times a day, it seems. This is what I've done:
-I was running 10.4.10, but I don't have the 10.4 discs, my friend does, so I downgraded to 10.3.9, archived and installed a new system, ran the Disc Utility Disc Repair from Disc 1, and Repaired Disc Permissions. This is what I got when I ran disc repair:
"Invalid leaf record count
(It should be 0 instead of 101)
Repair Attempted on 2 volumes
1 HFS volume repaired
1 volume could not be repaired"
I don't know what leaf record count means, nor do I know what 2 volumes were trying to be repaired and which one couldnt be.
I also ran the hardware test from that disc, and everything checked out okay. I got a new logic board about 4-5 months ago, and I really hope it's not that again.
I also have done the following:
-I've run Norton, and came up with no problems there
-I created a new user account, but that account froze up too
-Reset Open Firmware
-Zapped the PRAM
-Ran memtest, memtest checked out good, no problems there
-Taken out my 512 mb of additional RAM, still froze up on me
-I've run fsck -yf
I think that's it. I've tried all that, nothing has worked. I fear that it's a problem beyond the capabilities of my own repair, which sucks. I do not want to send this thing into Apple again. I've had two hard drive crashes, a memory problem, a bad logic board, and a bad DC-IN board (which I repaired myself). All of that, besides the first HD crash, happened after the warranty expired, so at this point I probably could've bought myself a MacBook. So I've narrowed it down to three options: Do a complete system erase and reinstall 10.3.9 (which I don't want to do yet, because I need to backup my HD, which will be hard since it'll probably freeze when I'm burning, and I don't have an external HD), send it back to Apple (don't want to do for the already stated reasons), or throw it out the window. The third option seems like the best at this point.
I apologize for the long read, and I hope you guys can help. Thanks for reading!
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