[IAMCAL]

Hi there,

I've searched the OSX forum but haven't found any error reoprts that are exactly like the one I got. The startup error occured after I had normaly shut down my computer for the night by clicking the finder and selecting shut down. My machine appeared to have shut down correctly, however this morning when I started it up I got an error message saying something like 'your computer was shut down unexpectedly'. These startups do not occur very frequently, probably once every 3 weeks (about 21 startups?).

Anyway, could anyone help me decifer this error report? thanks in advance:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0019C9EF): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x11584919, CR3: 0x00d3b000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x0264db00, EBX: 0x0264dea0, ECX: 0x029389ed, EDX: 0x02833a3d
ESP: 0x11584919, EBP: 0x138cbef4, ESI: 0x0266d4c0, EDI: 0x02833a30
EFL: 0x00010a06, EIP: 0x0064689f, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x02830010

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x138cbd80 : 0x128b5e (0x3bbf84 0x138cbda4 0x131bbc 0x0)
0x138cbdc0 : 0x19c9ef (0x3c13b4 0x0 0xe 0x3c116c)
0x138cbe70 : 0x197b8d (0x138cbe84 0x138cbef4 0x64689f 0x138c0048)
0x138cbe7c : 0x64689f (0x138c0048 0x3b0010 0x2930010 0x2830010)
0x138cbef4 : 0x3ae287 (0x2833a30 0x247ae00 0x37cf54 0x2835e80)
0x138cbf14 : 0x389de8 (0x247ae00 0x28341a0 0x248b360 0x0)
0x138cbf44 : 0x380b4d (0x248dc60 0x247ae00 0x138cbf78 0x3b3881)
0x138cbf94 : 0x3823de (0x247ae00 0x0 0x29473e0 0x0)
0x138cbfd4 : 0x197a29 (0x29473e0 0x0 0x298e030 0x264dea0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform(1.0.4)@0x614000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.0)@0x580000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.2.0)@0x610000

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.2: Thu Apr 13 18:48:29 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.59.obj~1/RELEASE_I386

[slpdLoad]

Well, for one thing, there's no reason to be shutting down your mac every night. Just put it to sleep and save yourself the time of it booting. It'll take care of itself without constant reboots.

[IAMCAL]

i hope so! thanks for the reply, i didnt think it was a big issue but i was reading a bunch of posts about people having "bad RAM" so i got worried...anwyay thanks again

[chefpastry]

I think you may be experiencing a hardware problem. Try running the hardware diagnostic that came with your computer. Try removing RAM modules one at a time to see if that helps.

[kick52]

do you have any thing in your PCI slots. the kernel panic (technical name for your error) points to that.

[IAMCAL]

Originally Posted by kick52

do you have any thing in your PCI slots. the kernel panic (technical name for your error) points to that.

I just purchased my macbook last month and I haven't installed any PCI cards. I checked the "about this mac" in the finder and indeed it says no PCI cards have been installed. Is this likely a serious hardware problem or just something that happens from time to time?

[IAMCAL]

Originally Posted by chefpastry

I think you may be experiencing a hardware problem. Try running the hardware diagnostic that came with your computer. Try removing RAM modules one at a time to see if that helps.

I ran the disk utiility (under applications > utilities) but it found nothing wrong.