Black Screen of Death
I have had this happen to me twice since upgrading to Panther. Everything will be running fine and then the computer just freezes, with a black message box that says to restart the computer and displays a power button graphic, it says this in several languages. Any ideas why this is happening - I never had any problems with Jaguar. I performed a clean install when I upgraded to Panther.
When I restart the computer I get a flashing question mark. My manual says to restart the computer holding down the option key and then select the hard drive icon and then the right arrow icon. I get the arrow icon but no hard drive icon. The first time this happened I restarted the computer holding down the option + D key, but this last time it didn't work. HELP!!!
When I restart the computer I get a flashing question mark. My manual says to restart the computer holding down the option key and then select the hard drive icon and then the right arrow icon. I get the arrow icon but no hard drive icon. The first time this happened I restarted the computer holding down the option + D key, but this last time it didn't work. HELP!!!
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Have a look at this Mac OS X Kernel Panic FAQ for some ideas.
If you get lines of startup comming up then its most likely a software issue and a re-install will should fix this.
If you don't see the startup output then you've probably got a hardware prob.
dobby.
Originally posted by Gargoyle
I got my first EVER kernel panic today. I was using TCP/IP over firewire to update a windblows machine without a network card. I blame the problem 60% on the really cheap firewire card I used in the PC and 40% on IP over Firewire not being quite finished. Hence the options not being immediately visible.
Yea, that sounds to me like a recipe for a big software/hardware problem. I haven't had any trouble with IP over Firewire though. Workin fine for me. I hope it stays that way.