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Good gravy, that is the whole thing! Well, so we know it's an G4 iMac, at 700 Mhz with just over 300 mb RAM and an 80 Gig drive. And if reformatting the drive and installing OS X didn't fix it, then at this point you need to run the hardware test CD that came with the iMac, or take it to Apple for testing, as it is a hardware issue. That's my take. The only other thing you could do is plug in an external Firewire hard drive and install OS X on it and boot from that. This way if it's the hard drive going bad, now the Finder will just seem to lock up if you try looking at the internal hard drive instead of crashing the system. And then if it's the drive, you still need to take it to Apple, unless you are really, really comfortable working in computer hardware, as those iMacs are a pain, and have to be handled just right, or you will fry the whole computer.

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