Two kernel panics in a 24-hour period

[pmac933]

I've only been using Macs for 4 months now, so I'm not sure about how to handle certain issues that arise. Anyway, I've had two kernel panics within the past 24 hours and was wondering if I should be doing any troubleshooting on my Mac.

Kevin

[timbloom]

First off, some basic diagnostics:

Start up holding down apple-s
type 'fsck -y' when you see the prompt, hit enter.
If it said "the filesystem was modified", run it again till it does not say that.
If it says "the drive appears to be ok" then just type 'reboot'

Then I suggest you repair permissions. Which is an option in Disk Utility under First Aid.

[janey]

on my iBook i had like a kernel panic every hour so i formatted the hard drive and started all over again and it works fine now :)

[arn]

Originally posted by pmac933
I've only been using Macs for 4 months now, so I'm not sure about how to handle certain issues that arise. Anyway, I've had two kernel panics within the past 24 hours and was wondering if I should be doing any troubleshooting on my Mac.

Kevin

Any new hardware on the machine? USB or Firewire? or new RAM?

arn

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by pmac933
I've only been using Macs for 4 months now, so I'm not sure about how to handle certain issues that arise. Anyway, I've had two kernel panics within the past 24 hours and was wondering if I should be doing any troubleshooting on my Mac.

-pmac933

> What was your Mac doing when the Panic occured?

> Any commonality between the two in this regard?

> What changed - what was different before you had the panics, and now after?

> Were you connecting to an SMB share (Windows Server) at the time? - If the SMB mount goes away [crash], and your mac is not disconnected - the SMB mount is still visible on your desktop - this can cause a panic.

> How close to a heater is your Mac's intake vent?