My first post ever, so please bear with me. 🙂
I've been working with my Macbook for over three years now and in the past week or so I've been getting debilitating kernel panics. I've done archive/installs and erase/installs of Leopard, and although it seems to be fine for a bit, after a few hours in it panics again. I tried formatting my HD with both the utilities included in OSX and even with Tech Tool, reinstalled Leopard, went about my way, but it eventually panics within the span of a few hours. No diagnostics or tests have found anything wrong (aside from a bunked HD before I formatted it, which I thought was the initial problem).
I've read that both bad RAM or bunk HDs can cause panics, but I've swapped out my upgraded RAM and HD to stock and that hasn't fixed anything. Could I really have two sets of bad RAM/HDs?
I brought my machine to the Apple store and it booted off of an external drive, so the genius there ruled out logic board failure. As a final test I took out my girlfriend's HD from her Macbook, installed it into mine, and vice versa. Not only did my HD fail to boot on to her machine, but hers failed to boot on to mine.
I'm not sure what else to do. I've been anticipating having to get a new computer but having this one completely fail on me has been very disappointing. Is there any hope of me salvaging it for resale or even as a secondary machine?
I've been working with my Macbook for over three years now and in the past week or so I've been getting debilitating kernel panics. I've done archive/installs and erase/installs of Leopard, and although it seems to be fine for a bit, after a few hours in it panics again. I tried formatting my HD with both the utilities included in OSX and even with Tech Tool, reinstalled Leopard, went about my way, but it eventually panics within the span of a few hours. No diagnostics or tests have found anything wrong (aside from a bunked HD before I formatted it, which I thought was the initial problem).
I've read that both bad RAM or bunk HDs can cause panics, but I've swapped out my upgraded RAM and HD to stock and that hasn't fixed anything. Could I really have two sets of bad RAM/HDs?
I brought my machine to the Apple store and it booted off of an external drive, so the genius there ruled out logic board failure. As a final test I took out my girlfriend's HD from her Macbook, installed it into mine, and vice versa. Not only did my HD fail to boot on to her machine, but hers failed to boot on to mine.
I'm not sure what else to do. I've been anticipating having to get a new computer but having this one completely fail on me has been very disappointing. Is there any hope of me salvaging it for resale or even as a secondary machine?