[HazelGirl]

[B]I have a 15' mbp 160GBHD, 256MBVRAM, 2GB....Tiger is updated and everything. Lately it's been freezing and giving me that evil grey screen thats in multiple languages.....like seriously every other day. It doesn't matter what I'm doing. A second ago I was listening to itunes music and it did this. Other times it's if I'm just checking email or surfing the next of chatting on ichat. In the past month it's being doing this and I repaired permissions and verified my disk and this is what I got back:

Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Volume Header needs minor repair
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair


DOES THIS MEAN I HAVE TO SEND MY COMPUTER IN TO APPLE CARE OR CAN THIS MINOR REPAIR BE DONE WITH SOFTWARE??? I ask because I'm out of town until August and all my stuff is in storage (including my OSX disk and backup HD). The nearest Apple Store is over an hour away and all I have is a 4GB usb drive...hardly enough to hold my music and photos....I dunno what to do. Any suggestions? I have Dot Mac but not enough storage for the stuff i have!

[ibook_steve]

Is the memory factory installed or your own? Run the Apple hardware test and see if anything fails. If you have 2 GB and it's two 1 GB sticks, try taking out each one one at a time and seeing if you still get kernel panics.

Steve

[HazelGirl]

I have it all manufacturer installed....hmmmm....I'm not technologically inclined so i wont be touching the memory myself. i will run hardware test....well....how do u run on r of those?

[Leaf]

Can you paste the log of the recent kernel panics? You can find them in the Console app in the Utilities folder. Look for panic.log which is under /Library/Logs.