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G4 Cube - Sporadic Kernal Panic - thinking VRM
Posted by: beach_cruiser92 on 2026-01-23 13:01:44
Hi -

My G4 cube has been experiencing semi-random seeming kernal panics since I bought it. It seems to happen more often once warmed up.

I’ve swapped RAM chips and can’t come up with a consistent behavior. I have 1.5gb.

The cube has an Apple GeForce 2 MX, IDE to SATA adapter and a 128gb SATA SSD

The last panic log is attached.

Is this a symptom of a vailing VRM? And if so, can anyone advise me on going with the Stratos or the Tindie SuperVRM? I’ll probably eventually do a CPU upgrade.
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