kernel panic

Hello, all. :) I am having a problem with a Seritek/1S2 SATA card in my Gigabit Ethernet G4. I was trying to reinstall the card's firmware, and got a kernel panic during installation. Now when I start the machine with the card inside, I get an open firmware startup screen, which is frozen and...

I solved this problem with help from the Genius Bar, just posting for anybody else who has the problem... My Mini hung up while ripping a CD, couldn't get it to Force Quit iTunes, finally switched it off. On restart, got a kernel panic ("You Must Restart Your Computer"). Got the AppleCare...

I had a random Kernel Panic this morning, and it seemed unprovoked. when i rebooted, i ran fsck twice until it was clear, and now i notice that the Bluetooth menu is 'unavalable' in the menu bar. it is no longer a present preference pane, and the Bluetooth menu in the system profiler says 'no...

I’m so frustrated right now :mad: . I came home last night from work and was met w/ a kernel panic. I rebooted and it still happened. I then repaired permissions, repaired the disks, tested the RAM modules, unplugged all non-essential hardware, and did a safe boot and still got a kernel panic...

Hello! i just installed a g5 powermac running osx server 10.4.2. just for a little background on the box, it has an additional hard drive installed, and the two drives together are configured as a mirror. the only other software running on it is retrospect. out of the box it was happy for...

Hello everyone, I constantly get Kernel panic when I am surfing the internet. Certain webpages I view will almost certainly trigger a kernel panic. For example www.ebay.com.au will most of the time sooner or later. I have tried using different browsers, repairing permissions, disconnecting...

Over the past few days my Power Mac G5 Dual 2 GHz machine has been suffering intermittent kernel panics that were slowly increasing in frequency. The problem manifested itself by the display blanking (as if the computer were going to sleep) and coming back on several times within 15 seconds...

I have a G3 imac with 500mhz (according to OS 9.2.2) and 192 MB of ram. I updated the firmware to 4.1.19 (the latest). When i insert the panther CD it panics during boot of the installation CD with the following message: (kernel panic(0)) could not find driver for "powermac(4,1)" i tried...

I boot my Dual 1.25 G4 from my Techtool Pro 4.01 CD and did the full suite of maintenance tasks. Nothing out of the ordinary was found. I rebooted and I'm immediately hit with the "You must restart your machine by holding in the button..." panic screen and I cannot get any further. I tried...

Hi I hope somebody here has an idea that can help. I recently bought a used iMac 500 (indigo) which I think had the original system OS loaded on it (X / 9.2). It was booted into 9.2 when I started it. Everything appeared fine - no program errors, no problems. Well, I had to go and...

I just installed the following update for 10.3.9 Server using Software Update: SecUpdSrvr2005-007Pan.dmg After which I had several kernel panics, booted off the system check disk to run Disk Utility, and then now everything is working OK except I can't mount any .dmg fiels due to "codec...

This is really weird, my computer shut down fine last nite, and I didnt do anything out of the ordinary. And now, everytime I login on my username I get a kernel panic and it forces me to restart... I can login as root fine, so I could make a new user account but I'd like to see if there's an...

I had a kernel panic on my 2004 17" Powerbook OS 10.4.1, and all accounts seem to have dissappeared. I booted from my Tiger install disk and tried to reset passwords, but there are no accounts on my disk, not even a root. I had a look at the PB's disk by mounting it in target disk mode...

I have an imac G5 1.8 ghz 1GB RAM sytem runnign Tiger 10.4.1 (upgraded from Panther). I am experiencing kernel panic crashes under the following conditions: When manually activating dinternet connect in menu bar for dialup connection (Apple Internal 56k Modem V92) KP will occur when either...

My G4 PowerBook began having kernel panics on startup yesterday. I ran Disk Utility several times, removed all startup items, and it ran for a while without crashing. I was booting to the OS X Disk, but the kernel paniced shortly after. Now all I get is the Open Firmware screen. I'm giving up...

Hi support, thanks for your prompt help. since, i install tiger and use mail.app (befor i used thunderbird). my computer seems to do a kernel panic when i use tri-backup to safe my "library" folder. i have a crash disk in my backup raid, change it, and when i copy large file, i can't...

i have power book g4 15' 1.25 ~THE STORY : my RAM was 512 (2x256) i have change to 1G (2x512) and then i get to many kernel panics i take the 1 512ram out everything is ok with 1 RAM never kernel panic i have change the ram and the some problem ...... why ????? i hate kernel panic ...

Before I begin, this post has a purpose. I have a question about antivirus software on OS X. I have read many posts that suggest (or say very plainly) that it is not necessary. Assuming that I want it (because I run MS Office for Mac), which AV software would you recommend that would protect my...

Hello, OS 10.3.8, iBook G3 800MHz When I restart my iBook after it has been switched off for more than a couple of hours I get a kernel panic. When I then restart (after a couple of minutes), everything is fine. Any ideas? It couldn't be anything to do with the PRAM battery could...