[Ericeman]

I'll try and be pithy here since my issue is fairly straightforward...

I'm running an iMac G5 iSight with 10.5 and am experiencing the following symptoms:

Slow start-up
Slow performance
It freezes near constantly (with a kernel panic) and mostly, it seems, under heavy CPU loads

The disk and permission repairs show no errors and I'm crossing my fingers that it's simply the all-too-common issue: bad capacitors. Which would mean my data is safe. It's apparently struggling to boot up via CD (was gonna try and install OSX to an external HDD)which would also point to logic board issues and not internal HDD failure.

Someone quell my fears that I'm slowly losing all my data!

Signed, Why-Am-I-Still-Running-PPC

[jimbo60640]

Did you try running Apple Hardware Test?