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AHHHH! 12' Kernel Panics galore 10.3.3., 12inch 'book!
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: NY, NY
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Please help!
1ghz 12powerbook combo drive. 768MB RAM, all in and working fine since day 1 (system maybe 5 months old)
Recently upgraded to 10.3.3. All seemed OK, except an occasional wake from sleep bug - would get the coma, and need to reboot. after a few days, got a KP. Get KPs non-stop now, and often right at reboot (a few seconds after the apple appears, but NOT always then - sometimes it boots up fine and KPs later.
Any thoughts?
So far, I've just:
1) reset PRAM
2) repaired permissions
3) fsck -y from single user mode, all is OK
4) trashed powermanagement.plist (thinking the wake from sleep was a symptom decided to get rid of those prefs)
5) tried disk warrior 3 but KP's trying to boot from CD several times and gave up.
RAM is fine, or at least has been from day 1. No new hardware of any sort. I have not archived/reinstalled, hoping there might be an answer out there easier than that. Only obvious change was installation of 10.3.3.
thanks!
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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why not remove the extra RAM just for kicks.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: South Florida
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Start troubleshooting:
1. Backup your data.
2. Remove the non-Apple memory
3. Boot from the Apple Hardware CD and test your hardware.
4. Reinstall OS X (complete format of the HD, writing 0's to all areas)
5. Reinstall your apps and data.
Now see if the problem returns.
6. Then upgrade to 10.3.3
Now see if the problem returns.
Drastic, but should work.
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I would also like to second the notion of swapping out the ram.
Quick question, is your drive journaled? If so, fsck -y won't really do something because it implicitly trusts that with journaling, everything is fine. fsck -f will force a check on a clean system.
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Happily using a Mac since '89
MacPortable: 16Mhz 1meg/40meg System 6.0.8 - 16lbs Yeah baby!
Powerbook 17" 1.33Ghz 2GB/100GB 8x Superdrive
Powerbook 12" 867Mhz 1.125GB/80GB 2xDVD-R RPC1
MacbookPro 17" 2.33Ghz
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Orange County, California
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If you have an AirPort Extreme card installed, reseat the card. It's a known issue that an improperly seated card will cause KPs and sometimes prevent machines from booting. Try it and keep your fingers crossed.
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the bighead
- MacBook Pro 15" matte non-unibody 2.6 GHz, 4GB RAM, 120/SSD & 750GB/7200
- PM G4 Dual 1.25 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 1x320 boot, 1x2TB TM Backup - 2x1TB & 2x3TB Archive/Backup
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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/library/logs/panic.log pointed the finger at something Airport-related. i reseated the card and updated the software to 3.3, and all seems fine...
thanks all!
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