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Join Date: Sep 2007
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I bought a MacBook less than a month ago, and since then, it has crashed about twenty times on me. The past five times or so it has been when I open Safari, Pages, or Keynote. I am thinking that it might be that Safari is the beta version, and that iWork is being difficult, because most of my other applications don't cause my MacBook to crash. Also, sometimes it crashes before I can login to my account.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Have you repaired your permissions lately? Applications >> Utilities >> Disk Utility Then click on your Disk, then Repair Permissions. For good measure, reset your PRAM during boot up holding down Command + Option + P + R simultaneously and let it chime at least 3 times, then release and boot normally.
Give that a try and see if it fixes your problem before doing anything extreme.
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Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
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crash as in the system freezing or kernel panics?
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when it crashes on me it freezes then display the "you need to restart" screen.
i was actually trying to remember what to press and hold to reset my PRAM, i had seen it somewhere but i couldn't remember it.
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okay, i tried resetting my PRAM and repair permissions using Disk Utility. resetting PRAM did not work, and Disk Utility didn't get to do it's job because the computer decided it wanted me to restart it.
should i just go to the apple store and get another?
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Right, you're having kernel panics.
Have you added and RAM yourself?
Do you have any Logitech peripherals?
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Update verion 10.4.10 is pretty bad for kernel panics. I assume your MB came with that as standard install. I have read of people doing a rollback to version 10.4.9 but am unsure how you could do that.
Untill the kernel panic problem is fixed I refuse to do the update.
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You should be fine, especially since this is second generation. If you added your own Ram, then that may be the problem. If not, as you bought it a month ago.... take it into the Apple Store.
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i took it to the apple store, they said it was my logic board.
if it's the update that corrupted the logic board, would it do it again..?
at least leopard is coming out this month, unless they delayed it again
thanks for all the help (=
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by hoobershnooger 
if it's the update that corrupted the logic board
Not possible.
And 10.4.10 does not cause any kernel panics.
It certainly hasn't on my machine.
(To tell the truth, I don't think I've had a single kernel panic on this machine since I got it last November)
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