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Kernel Spikes and crazy display colours...?? :s
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Hello all,
I've got a 3 month of MBP. Over the past few weeks or so, every now and then something really strange will happen.
My system will freeze, unfreeze for a few seconds, freeze again... and repeat, until I force an manual shutdown. I've always got Activity Monitor open, and it's showing that the kernel is spiking on a regular basis, then going back down to 'normal.' And repeat... like so... 
Not only that, but once this start, I get crazy colour stuff going on with any menus I click on after this (left-clicking on the trash gave me a similar result):
This has happened maybe 5 or 6 times sofar. After the first time it happened, I ran an extended hardware test, which came up clean. 
The last two times this happened I was:
1) Closing Transmission.
2) Changing the default downloads folder in Safari.
This hasn't happened since I've updated to 10.5.3, but it's only been a day sofar! 
Has anyone else had a similar issue/know what this is/what I should do?
Many thanks. 
(Last edited by B Gallagher; May 30, 2008 at 05:49 AM.
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This is clearly a hardware problem. I would back up my data and hand my MBP for to apple for repair.
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As I feared.. Data's being backed up on an hourly basis, so that's not a problem. I'll have to wait a couple of weeks before I will have time to take my MBP into Apple though.
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What's the SMART status on the hard drive? Does the console say anything interesting?
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SMART status is verified. What is the console? :o
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Originally Posted by B Gallagher 
SMART status is verified. What is the console? :o
Console.app is an application in the Applications>Utilities folder. By default it should open console.log which will log any problems which occur in OS X or applications that are running. This may help to work out why kernel is taking up a lot of your CPU.
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Thanks seanc - where within Console.app should I look check the logs related to the kernel for when this last happened?
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Seems that this is the solution to my problems.
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Well, it's good it's being supported.
Just a word of note though, when you get back up and running, do yourself a favor and throw away Last.fm. It's a resource hog. Replace it with iScrobbler or GimmeSomeTune. Both do the same thing and with less overhead.
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Thanks for the tip Jasoco. I think I changed over to iScrobbler when I reloaded my system, but I'll check when I get back home!
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It must be due to the Nvidia defect, right?
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