Mac Tiger is in a spin

[rechjm]

A couple of weeks ago I was running Parallels on my Macbook Pro. I had inserted a USB stick to get a file from it to windows. In doing so, the Macbook completely froze. I took the battery out and disconnected the power supply and waited for about a minute before booting it up again.

When I booted the Mac, it looked like it was starting up fine. However, it got to the point where it loaded my wallpaper, opened Finder and then froze for a few seconds. It appeared to try and restart again, got to the same point, froze and has been in a spin ever since.

I booted the Macbook Pro off the OS disc holding the D down to do the hardware test and it came back fine. I also reinstalled just the OS, but I'm still having problems. I ran the Mac if verbose mode too and I managed to get a crash log. I wasn't able to access it until last week as the Mac was in a spin. For some reason last week I put the Mac into sleep mode and the next day I was able to see the hard drive (though I'm not able to run anything as it seems to want the admin to login - which I am).

The error in the windowserver.crash.log refers to a invalid address on the kernel. Part of the error is below (the file is about 21MB in size, so I didn't want to put the whole thing in here.

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Host Name: joanne-rechs-computer
Date/Time: 2008-07-04 15:06:24.037 +0200
OS Version: 10.4.8 (Build 8N1051)
Report Version: 4

Command: WindowServer
Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources/WindowServer
Parent: launchd [1]

Version: ??? (???)

PID: 841
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xbf7ff1dc

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98a03 layer_tile_walk + 12
1 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98f59 layer_tile_walk + 1378
2 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98fff layer_tile_walk + 1544
3 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98fff layer_tile_walk + 1544
4 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98fff layer_tile_walk + 1544
5 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98fff layer_tile_walk + 1544
.
.
503 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98f59 layer_tile_walk + 1378
504 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98f59 layer_tile_walk + 1378
505 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98f59 layer_tile_walk + 1378
506 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92c98f59 layer_tile_walk + 1378
507 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92be2931 CGLayerComposite + 1713
508 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92bc92fd CGXUpdateDisplay + 7215

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90009857 mach_msg_trap + 7
1 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92bbf93d eventThread + 3343
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90023d87 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024427 semaphore_wait_signal_trap + 7
1 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92eab348 layer_blit_thread + 228
2 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x92eab872 layer_blit_async_thread + 94
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90023d87 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x92c98a08 ecx: 0x1481ad74 edx: 0xbffff050
edi: 0x0000061f esi: 0x0000001f ebp: 0xbf803278 esp: 0xbf7ff1e0
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010282 eip: 0x92c98a03 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037

Binary Images Description:
0x1000 - 0x1fff WindowServer /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources/WindowServer
0x72000 - 0x7efff com.apple.ATIRadeonX1000GA 1.4.42 (4.4.2) /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000GA.plugin/Contents/MacOS/ATIRadeonX1000GA
0x605000 - 0x75efff GLEngine /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Resources/GLEngine.bundle/GLEngine
0x1405000 - 0x15f3fff com.apple.ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver 1.4.42 (4.4.2) /System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver

[Satcomer]

Boot with the Tiger install disk and then use the install disk's Disk Utility and try to repair the disk. The hard drive maybe be acting up.

[Giaguara]

Did you run hardware test in loop mode for at least a few hours? (ctrl-l) best left overnight.

I see ATI errors. Could be with the driver, drive, or something else.. graphics card failing, the RAM... If you did an erase and install on your system then we could probably exclude the Mac OS X side of the problem.
Do you get any other errors? Such as any apps quitting unexpectedly, graphical problems etc before this crash?
Which hardware are you using?