Getting Kernal Panic while watching youtube videos.

[Don Nguyen]

This has happened quite a few times to me now, on my new MBP I5. Probably once a week, while watching youtube videos, my macbook pro will freeze and issue a kernal panic warning. This forces me to shut down my mac manually and then turn it back on to reset everything.

I tried searching for related problems associated with youtube, but couldn't come up with anything that deemed helpful to my situation. Am I destined to bringing this into the Apple store and having them take a look at the laptop to try and find the cause of the problem?

-Don

 

[robotmonkey]

Flash? Try signing up for the html5 version of youtube and see if the videos in that format do the same thing. Flash is bad on a mac.... but not that bad. Look at your cpu monitor and see if you have something invisible running in the background maybe?

 

[iLog.Genius]

Try a different browser and see you still get kernel panics.

 

[Don Nguyen]

Just happened again. This is using Safari as my web browser.

So far 2 times today.

-Don

 

[Sun Baked]

Read the panic logs to see what is causing it.

Usually it is 3rd party memory, but it could be something else.

 

[Don Nguyen]

Also to note, it was a music video that I had played before, and has worked countless times before. It just happened that time that I replayed it again caused it to crash. Kind of random.