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dPratt

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Aug 16, 2004
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Knoxville, TN
Not that I'm familiar with every kind of system crash there is, but I've never experienced (or read about) a crash like this before. I came home from work and hit the space bar to wake up my eMac (1GHz with 1gb ram). As soon as the screen came on a bunch of white text on a black background filled up the screen (see attached image) and the system was locked up. Any thoughts? Everything seems to be working fine after a forced restart.
 

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dPratt said:
Not that I'm familiar with every kind of system crash there is, but I've never experienced (or read about) a crash like this before.
I had the exact same screen the other morning on first
startup of the day.
The only thing I could connect it to was the weather.
It had suddenly turned cold here in Vancouver, B.C.
and the room with the computer was several degrees
cooler than usual.
And no, I've never heard anyone but you bring this up
until now. I have DP 1.8 GHz G5 running 10.3.7
 
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