Thanks for your very detailed response, Eric; I'll try to answer your questions. Bob > Questions for you: > >1. What application(s) are open when you experience kernel panics? >Netscape? VPC? They are both heavy users of RAM. The former is full of >sloppy coding (on the Mac). The latter is an example of one of the >most stable apps ever written (MS Windows often is more stable *under* >VPC than running on actual i86 hardware). > > Netscape and VPC were both open. 2. How much RAM do you have? Have you added any chips above and beyond what Apple provided? I had 512 MB RAM installed before I picked the eMac. >3. Have you added any new hardware? Do you use any USB or FireWire devices? > > Have an Epson C64 printer (USB) attached. Occasionly link a Sony digital camcorder via Firewire. >4. Have you added any "utilities" to your system? Does Virex run any >special programs all the time (this is why I don't trust Virex or >Norton AntiVirus for OS X -- they destabilse computers _without_ >adding ANYTHING to the security of the computer)? > > I use Virex only occasionally; otherwise as far as I can tell, it is off. While I recently installed Internet Cleaner 2.0 I have not yet used it - at this point not really sure what it does (I'm probably a prime candidate for what fate meted out to the curious cat!) 5. Is this still the same install of Mac OS X as when you bought the computer? The eMac came with OS 10.2.4. I upgraded to 10.2.6 then 10.2.8 IIRC by downloading from Apple. -- ************************************************************************ http://publish.uwo.ca/~mcdaniel/ _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/Pages/joinus.html Our Archives can be viewed at //www.freelists.org/archives/muglo Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/