Help!! System Crashes!
Anyone have any advice? My system has crashed a dozen times in the past couple days. I get this darkened screen and then a while box that says something along the lines of "you need to restart your computer, press the power button for a few seconds, or press the restart button."
Ti800, OS 10.2.3, 768MB RAM
I haven't installed anything lately as far as I know.
I has crashed 4 times in the past hour. Anyone have any ideas?!!?
Ti800, OS 10.2.3, 768MB RAM
I haven't installed anything lately as far as I know.
I has crashed 4 times in the past hour. Anyone have any ideas?!!?
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what are you doing when this kernel panic occurs ('cuz there is a name for the well-known event you describe)? are you using any outside appliances (connected via usb/firewire)? they might be the source. Is there some disc/cd mounted? are you working with the app disk copy (I had two kernel panics while using that app).
so, try to single out the problem like this. If still you don't really find a culprit (and in any other case too) you'll have to seriously try and fix stuff.
Open the application Disk Utility (it's somewhere in the Applications/Utilities folder), and under tab repair, click repair disk permissions.
After this, you might wanna restart from your boot-cd and run disk utility (from Installer menu) and run repair disk.
If all these steps are completed, and you still have problems, you MIGHT have something serious on your hands. A total wipe of the HD, and a complete reinstall might be in order in that case.
Good Luck!
2 weeks ago I upgraded to Jaguar, and 2.3, and it had been fine. I did a complete install, after formatting the whole drive. I just can't figure out why this has suddenly started! IS this something Apple Care will help me with?
<strong>IS this something Apple Care will help me with?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, I guess that depends on what stage of warranty you're in (still under phone assistance, or only hardware repair). I don't know. I guess they will tell you to go through the same steps as I did (although I'm not sure there). And, I don't think they'll let you send in your PB before you've reached the final recourse (being a complete reinstall), and still have problems.
Did it start with that DVD, or is that just one time it really freaked out?
Maybe you have some app running in the background? Are you connected to the internet during these panics? Maybe on AIM/iChat? Gnutella, Direct Connect? I hear some networking functions of OS X are still rather lacking.
And even if you can't guess up a source of these problems, you still should go through the several steps of diskrepair and have a hardware check.