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I have a QS 2002 which was having trouble booting.  Based on my troubleshooting it wouldn't boot up from the hard drive, but it would boot fine from the Techtool Pro DVD, which said the drive was bad (bitmap was bad).  It also booted up fine from the OS X install DVD.  Since the secondary HD was good I decided to install OS X on that one also and fix the problem.  Well, it didn't work.  It booted up using the secondary HD and I had it run Time Machine to make sure everything was backed up.  When I returned, the machine had locked up a few minutes after starting the backp. (I have the clock show seconds so I know exactly when/if a lockup happens).  I rebooted and when the finder appeared it locked up again (twice).  Then I opened the case and rebooted.  Everything was fine.  Did a backup and everything was fine.  As soon as I shut the case it locked up.  (Did this 2 times to make sure).  I opened the case again and rebooted.  It started nortmally (Grey screen). then jumped into the blue screen that normally shows just before finder appears.  The blue blinked a bit & I saw the circular moving bars, then the blue flashed, etc.  Any ideas or any more information needed?

Thanks,

Jyri