what does a crash look like

I've only ever had it grind to a halt (beach ball of death) usually when trying to view idisk folders via the finder.

I've since found that the terminal is a much nicer way to do this.
 
Mine crashed once while I was ripping a CD, printing and running a huge calc in Mathematica at the same time. It really didn't do much .. in fact it just stopped. Kind of like a crash in 9. The colorful 'beach-ball' was spinning and the mouse curser would move .. but nothing would respond and all the apps just stopped. Very uneventful.

I hear the kernal panics are much cooler and spit out a bunch of errors and stuff on the screen, although I've never seen one happen.
 
haha, well besides the fact that i baiscally ask for the kernel panic ( i put FAR to much stress on my system ) yeah its true, you can see the actually command line spew a bunch of garble onto the screen and most of the times, the machine just restarts itself, othertimes, the garble can go one for hours. Its actually hillarious when you catch words like "moronic" and "ouch" in the text.
 
wow man, it's really cool!! there's all these colors and then these flashes of past things you've done and then next thing you know everything is black and you don't care anymore!

no wait, that's when i crash:D

yea my experiences are pretty much as described above but i also have never panicked. (knock on composite wood ). of course apps crash, sometimes by ceasing to work and sometimes by just "unexpectedly" quitting. i did however have one crash that differed. After getting my new acom 40gb hd i got the never ending beach ball and process stop. i had to relaunch the finder to get out of it. in doing so it went to the all blue screen that you see briefly at startup with the force quit window still open and the beach ball still spinning. it was here i discovered an entertaining little novelty. if you take that spinning ball and place it over a flashing default button, the spinning speeds up and slows down with the pulsing of the button. that was kinda cool all things considered.

(btw - just unplugging the guilty drive allowed it to continue relaunch successfully. a bridge update from acomdata solved this. their support supervisor is great)
 
I get kernel panics about every week or so. For a while I had some bad RAM, kernel would panic sometimes 2-3 times a day
 
How can you guys who get kernel panics every week be so nonchalant about them? There's a logical reason why they happen, and it shouldn't be too hard to track down.

Right before 10.0 came out, I was getting kernel panics every 15 minutes due to a bad RAM configuration in my old G4/400. Rearranging the RAM in to a different order fixed everything.

Since then, the only kernel panics I've gotten are from unplugging USB devices. I use a KVM switch, and a couple of times, when switching from the Mac to another machine (which is essentially removing all the USB devices from one machine and xfering them to another), the machine panicked. This has happened about 3 times in the last 6 months. Hasn't happened at all since 10.1.1 was released.

Other than that, my system is pretty rock solid. I've had the Finder get itself in to a SCUD loop, from which I had to use the terminal to kill it.

IE and OW tend to be the applications that "Unexpectedly Quit" the most, with IE taking the lead and OW coming in second (funny, I thought OW was the beta, not IE).

All in all, stability is the top reason I use OS X now. If I was getting weekly kernel panics, I would have to revert back to 9.
 
because if you look at my signature line, you will see that I no longer have possession of it.

A G4/400 is still a viable machine for lot's of tasks, but when Apple's low end consumer models sport faster processors than your high end, it may be time to ugprade (if you can afford it and would benefit from it).

I like to do my part for the economy and Apple's stock price...

:)
 
no, but if i want to tease scruffy, who i think is a good guy whom i like and we talk about cats sometimes, then i will. i hope scruffy laughed and comes up with a reply to make me laugh.:p

scruffy - it's ok if i joke with you isn't it?

say yes or i will send my cat over to beat your cat up (he he)
(if you knew what wimps my cats are you would really see the humor in that!!):D
 
Ed - Don't worry, my cat will stick up for me. Ha. He's a 16 pound behemoth, which doesn't stop him being afraid of nearly everything. Except mice, and I rather wish he would run away from them rather than take them into the house, as charming as it is that he gives us gifts...

Anyway, I'm rambling, but I agree my avatar does look rather like bad ram, that's why I picked it. Actually it's a goat fellow from Where the Wild Things Are

serpicolugnut - Not that I particularly like kernel panics or anything, you should hear me curse when they happen. My girlfriend, she's nonchalant - doesn't see why I get so upset when I get week-long uptimes. Of course, her computer has never crashed on her, but she turns it off overnight...

Could you maybe give me a hint as to RAM ordering? I thought the order didn't matter anymore. I have 64 MB that came with the computer (BW G3), 256 MB that I bought a few months ago, and 128 MB that my girlfriend has right now, but her iMac doesn't recognize it so I will probably put it back in my comp soon enough. Any idea what sort of order that should go in?
 
My Libretto felt down in the school. After it I had a completely different new OS(cause bitchanging). I had to search a workaround for given it original os back to the Libretto.
 
scruffy - yes i knew it was a goat.and while i am not an animal specialist i believe male goats are referred to as rams. any goat farmers that can clarrify this? and i also he think he is scruffy looking which suits you well. the irony that you experience bad ram as well is an unfortunate thing.

so if we got our cats together they would need sperate hiding places i guess:p actually our smallest one can be pretty aggressive when she wants to be. the circular pecking order among the 4 of them is often a source of amusement.

and i did get a good laugh out of your reply (didn't knock me out of my chair but i did LOL:p )

my gf's imac has also never crashes. of course it is a $1500 email, word processing and online shopping tool that is down far more often than up. She doesn't allow me to put additional software on it so nothing ever acts up. i managed to sneak asm and opera onto it without her complaining. and adium for her son when he visits. (we tried aim first and that produced the only real quirky behavior that it has seen. I had to force quit netscape once when some order form hung her up)

i wonder a little about the ram ordering as well. so far i have had good luck - and my current is two 256's that i bought real cheap at fry's. is it more important to order them by size or by brand? i would like to gradually get up to 1 gig before summer which means 2 sperate purchases of 512's unless they suddenly drop in price.
 
I got a Kernel Panic once right on the grey screen with the happy mac you see right as you turn the computer on. (I had been messing around with the system a little :p) That was fun. Nothing a quick reinstall off the X.1 cd couldn't fix. :D
 
testuser... while looking at your "kernel panic" mockup, i saw you had the Propeller Heads song "Take California"... did that come with the Mac or did ya download it by seeing on the commercial... just askin... that song is totally kick ass...
 
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