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im_to_hyper

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Aug 25, 2004
1,366
375
Pasadena, California, USA
Hi guys!

I have an iBook G4 1.33 GHz/512MB internal RAM/40GB HD of a friend right now I am looking at. It was running OS X 10.4.11 and wouldn't even allow you to boot up before it would kernel panic and go no further.

Now, I reformatted with 10.5.8 and the RAM has been upgraded to 768MB. It had been working fine, I installed Office 2008, and iLife 09, and ran some updates and let it sit on overnight.

Now today while using it (Facebook in Camino while downloading updates in the background) the kernel panic screen randomly came up.

Here is the entire kernel panic log: anyone have any ideas?


Code:
Interval Since Last Panic Report:  40343 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Anonymous UUID:                    A1255A9D-FB4D-48BA-868C-9915A92F8B18

Thu Jun  9 12:55:42 2011
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000B0504): "Uncorrectable machine check: pc = 0000000000C3398C, msr = 0000000000149030, dsisr = 40000000, dar = 00000000A056A304\n" "  AsyncSrc = 0000000000000000, CoreFIR = 0000000000000000\n" "     L2FIR = 0000000000000000,  BusFir = 0000000000000000\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.15.4/osfmk/ppc/trap.c:975
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
      Backtrace:
         0x0009CC88 0x0009D63C 0x00029DA0 0x000B0504 0x000B0784 0x000B4278 
Proceeding back via exception chain:
   Exception state (sv=0x25cea000)
      PC=0x00C3398C; MSR=0x00149030; DAR=0xA056A304; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00C33B3C; R1=0x25C03C70; XCP=0x00000008 (0x200 - Machine check)
      Backtrace:
0x00000000 0x00C33B3C 0x00BF6EA0 0x0035CED0 0x0035C134 0x0035C1E8 
         0x000B1DD4 
      Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx(366.91.21)@0xbed000->0xd19fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(216.1)@0xbc9000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x7b2000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.6.1)@0xb69000
   Exception state (sv=0x18da9280)
      PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
9L31a

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:57:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_PPC
System model name: PowerBook6,7

System uptime in nanoseconds: 65648537396
unloaded kexts:
(none)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.filesystems.autofs	2.0.2 - last loaded 690634886
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager	2.1.8f2
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver	1.0.6
com.apple.driver.AppleTAS3004Audio	2.5.8f1
com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport	2.4.0
com.apple.driver.MotorolaSM56K	1.3.9
com.apple.driver.Portable_PlatformMonitor	1.8.7d5
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP	1.7.7
com.apple.ATIRadeon9700	5.4.8
com.apple.driver.AppleThermal	1.0.1f2
com.apple.driver.AppleSCCSerial	1.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleADBButtons	3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor	1.9d0
com.apple.driver.IOI2CADT746x	1.0.10f1
com.apple.driver.AppleHWClock	1.5.2d0
com.apple.AppleOnboardDisplay	1.15.1
com.apple.driver.AppleTexasAudio	2.5.8f1
com.apple.driver.AppleTexas2Audio	2.5.8f1
com.apple.driver.AppleDACAAudio	2.5.8f1
com.apple.driver.AppleK2Driver	1.7.2f1
com.apple.driver.AppleI2S	1.0.1f1
com.apple.driver.CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController	2.1.8f2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad	1.7.4f1
com.apple.driver.CSRHIDTransitionDriver	2.1.8f2
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver	1.1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice	2.1.1
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient	2.1.1
com.apple.driver.AppleADBKeyboard	2.3.9
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter	2.7.91
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport	1.5.3
com.apple.iokit.IOATABlockStorage	2.0
 

4JNA

macrumors 68000
Feb 8, 2006
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i've seen this with bad ram, and also being caused by the airport card.

i'd remove and extra ram (use only onboard), and also remove and clean the edge connector on the AE card and then re-install. if you still get KPs, then remove the AE card altogether and try again. still KP, then probably a bad ram chip on the logic board.

not likely the cracked asic joint failure or loose bga chip as those won't even KP, they just lock/crash with no warning. best of luck.
 

im_to_hyper

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Aug 25, 2004
1,366
375
Pasadena, California, USA
Awesome, thank you!

It is still KPing with only the internal RAM so I will try your suggestion with the airport card. If that doesn't work... am I pretty much SOL on options? Or can it run with no internal RAM? I am pretty inexperienced when it comes to the iBook G4s.
 
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