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Potential Issue with Hughes internet
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Madison
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Jul 4, 2011, 11:02 AM
 
Hi all,

My mother is running 10.4.11 on a G4 Mac Tower (I think it's 1.0ghz, MDD, maybe??). She has had no issues with it for 6 months or more, until lately. She just had Hughes Satellite internet connected last week (she's in the DEEP woods of Maine), and since then she's had a kernel panic, and a "Please Restart your computer" freeze, neither of which she's ever had before. Any thoughts? I told her to copy down what was on the screen the next time a kernel panic happens, to see if one of you can interpret it for her. Anyone else have any ideas??

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Tom
     
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Jul 4, 2011, 11:15 AM
 
How is she connected, USB modem or ethernet to a Hughes modem?
     
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Jul 4, 2011, 11:15 AM
 
If it just happened once, don't bother about it. Soft flips (random errors in RAM) do happen on occasion, mostly due to cosmic radiation. If it keeps happening, start by checking the disk integrity and run the hardware test disc. An MDD Powermac is from 2002. Hardware does wear out, especially things like the PSU.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
     
Madison  (op)
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Jul 4, 2011, 11:39 AM
 
It's through Ethernet with a Hughes modem. I pretty much told her not to freak out, that a freeze or kernel panic will happen on occasion, she just panicked because she's never had a kernel panic before (10+ years and 3 Macs), so the timing convinced her it was due to the new Hughes internet connection.

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Jul 4, 2011, 11:41 AM
 
A first in 10 years is good. I wouldn't worry about it then unless they keep recurring often.
     
   
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