G3 iMac Kernal Panics

[leftbanke7]

My Mom's G3 iMac (running 10.3.9) keeps on either freezing up, going into deep unwakable sleep or kernal panicking. I ran Disk Utilities and it told me that everything is A-OK. I repaired permissions and all that jazz as well. I think that the PRAM battery is out, however, b/c I keep on getting the 'Your Computer's clock is set before..." message at each startup. Would this cause the above stated problems? Thanks in advance.

James

 

[mad jew]

I really doubt the flat battery is causing this grief.

Have you installed any new software or hardware recently?

 

[leftbanke7]

My sister has installed so much crap I couldn't even try to narrow it down to one specific program.

 

[mad jew]

Try an archive and install so as to keep your settings but have a fresh version of the system. Maybe look into having separate accounts for each family member too.