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Panic at the Macbook!

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Spario

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Jul 14, 2005
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Hello everyone,

I've been having a problem with my new MB. From day one when i open my MB from sleep it gets a kernel panic. It doesn't happen everytime, though, it has happened about 17 times (I've been looking back in the syslog).
Is this happening to anyone else? Does anyone know a fix or what may be the cause of the issue?
Thanks to all who comment.
 
bobjob186

bobjob186

macrumors 6502a
Apr 16, 2005
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Laguna Beach
Spario said:
Hello everyone,

I've been having a problem with my new MB. From day one when i open my MB from sleep it gets a kernel panic. It doesn't happen everytime, though, it has happened about 17 times (I've been looking back in the syslog).
Is this happening to anyone else? Does anyone know a fix or what may be the cause of the issue?
Thanks to all who comment.
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I got a dual Powermac G5 and out of the box it had a Kernel panic, I called after like 5 days with Aplcare on the phone they finally called it a dead on arrival and they sent me a new one. Hopefully yours will be ok but I wouldn't live with it, just take it in to Apple and hope that the problem happens again.
 
firsttube

firsttube

macrumors regular
Apr 14, 2004
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Spario said:
Hello everyone,

I've been having a problem with my new MB. From day one when i open my MB from sleep it gets a kernel panic. It doesn't happen everytime, though, it has happened about 17 times (I've been looking back in the syslog).
Is this happening to anyone else? Does anyone know a fix or what may be the cause of the issue?
Thanks to all who comment.
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Have a black 2.0, 512 ram. I had one kp so far, but i told the computer to shut down, and then closed the lid "too early" apparently. i opened it back up, and the backlight was off on the lcd, so i shined some light on/into it and sure enough it was the kernal panic screen saying you must restart your computer now. I haven't seen it since, and I've had this for about 16, 18 hours now. No other issues or problems, and I have xp installed on a 14 gig partition.
 
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Spario

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 14, 2005
24
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Marble said:
Apple could have put some bad RAM in the computer if it's an irregular panic.
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This began out of the box. Then, I replaced the RAM with paired 1GB and it continues to happen.
I also have done several hardware tests.
Thanks for the Help. I'm taking it to the Apple Store tomorrow and keep
everyone in the loop of what happeneds.
 
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Spario

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 14, 2005
24
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Solved!

The Problem was caused by a widget. After removing it no more panics.
Thanks to all who posted.
 
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AlexanderOnline

macrumors member
May 25, 2006
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I have the same problem. So mayby you can help me if you can tell me what widget it was.
I will reset my PMU to, mayby that will help.
 
me_94501

me_94501

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Jan 6, 2003
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Spario said:
The Problem was caused by a widget. After removing it no more panics.
Thanks to all who posted.
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Heh, I'm amused at how we often think the worst when it's often something simple (myself included--see above). :p
 
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commonpeople

macrumors regular
Nov 9, 2004
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faintember said:
Well...aren't you going to tell us what widget was the problem?
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A widget on your Dashboard could be killing your Macbook in a matter of hours. We'll tell you which widget on the news at nine after the weather....
 
motulist

motulist

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Dec 2, 2003
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Wow man, every time I hear stories like this it makes me scratch my head. I have had my Powerbook for about 2 and a half years running various flavors of OS 10.3 and I am almost certain that I haven't ever had a single kernel panic, not even once. Are OS X kernel panics as rare as I always thought, with only a few ultra super mega rare kernel panic causing problems that 1 in a million people are encountering? Or am I just lucky?
 
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AlexanderOnline

macrumors member
May 25, 2006
31
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Mayby it is the minibatterystatus widget! someone with the same problem said that it was caused by that widget. I still have the problem and working now 5 days on a second user account, to see if its a software problem, and i didn't have panics on that account. on my account, i use the minibatterystatus widget..
I also read a topic on Apple discussions of someone with the same problem (also with that widget installed), and on a new user account he doesn't have the problem at all.
 
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