[zign]

I woke up this morning and found my mbp froze. It had a screensaver on with still picture and a message asking to restart the computer by holding the ON button. Did that. Worked fine. I then left it on for a couple of hours and it froze again but this time with the dark screen.

Did the hardware test and it passed.

MBP 15.4, 2.0Ghz, 2GB RAM, 100Gb 5400rpm, ATI x1600 256mb, 10.4.6

I tried speedit yesterday, but wasn't running it when this happenned.

Any ideas? Anyone else had the same problem?

[RevEvs]

You had a Kernal Panic.

The usual Causes are:

- Dodgy RAM (Where did you get your 2GB of RAM from?)
- Dodgy Extensions (Does speedit install any extensions? I have a feeling it may)
- Dodgy USB Devices

[zign]

Originally Posted by RevEvs

You had a Kernal Panic.

The usual Causes are:

- Dodgy RAM (Where did you get your 2GB of RAM from?)
- Dodgy Extensions (Does speedit install any extensions? I have a feeling it may)
- Dodgy USB Devices

- The hardware test did not show any problems with the hardware. If it were dodgy ram would it identify the problem in the hardware test?

- It may have. Is there anyway to find out?

- I had no usb devices connected to the computer at the time. But I did have a DVD in, which I was watching a night before. I did quit the dvd player before going to sleep though.

Thanks!

[RevEvs]

1) no I dont thinkthe hardware test shows. Youusuallyhave to remove the ram to test.

2) I'm not familiar with Speed It - but it probably would have installed something in /Library/Extensions (either the library folder in your home folder or the one in the root of your drive)

3) dunno

[iomonk]

the same thing happened to me when i was using my wireless connection.
first i thought it was an error. but then i tried again turning on my wireless connection.
and after 5 minutes it happened again.
I've had my laptop a month and a half, and till now that screen has only appeared when i use my wireless connection. and sometimes i can surf for 15 minutes or half an hour without anything happening. and others it just comes out five minutes after turning it on. i was meaning to ask if anyone knew anything about this.

it is a grey screen that says "press your power btn several seconds to turn off your pc" and thats all u can do.

[iomonk]

oh forgot. MBP 17" 2.16GHz 1GB ram 120GB HDD macOSX 10.4.6 (yesterday i updated it to 10.4.7, but still didn't check if it freezes again with the wireless)

[John123]

I am in the same (frustrating) boat. I have a week 20 MBP 15" that has had intermittent and frustrating kernel panics. Originally I thought it might be bad RAM. I had bought 2GB from 18004memory. I've had great luck with them in the past, and had used 2GB in my previous 1.83Ghz MBP. I thought maybe I had a bad batch, but.....

1) I have had KPs with the Apple 512MB, although much fewer (strange)

2) I borrowed one of my friend's 1GB sticks from the same manufacturer and added it to the Apple 512, and had a KP within a few minutes of starting.

I am perplexed but growing pretty irritated. Anyone got ideas?

[flanders]

I started getting freezes w/black screen yesterday after the 10.4.7 update. Went back to 10.4.6 and running perfectly again. With mine, the screen would black on the MBP and then nothing. Hard restart was the only fix. Would sometimes happen on boot too. I could only keep it running for max 30 minutes for a while before deciding to go back to .6 release. I've got 2Gb of RAM (patriot from newegg) and I ran .6 for at least a month with no issues before this. The night before, I updated to 10.4.7 and the next morning (yesterday) I couldn't keep it running to save myself.

[flanders]

FWIW, mine is a week 22.

[iomonk]

hmm sorry for not replying beeeefooooooooooooooorreeee.
i kinda forgot about this post. yep it was the ram
i got it fixed looooooooooooong time ago. the 2 gigs came from the store. i bought the laptop with 2 gigs. nways. all is perfect. nos since 6 months ago i think, jeje sorry bout that, thnx for the help