Hey all, I'm wondering if anyone has experience with a BSOD that doesn't appear to be a kernel panic. I recently updated my 2008 iMac to Snow Leopard (I know--I was slow) and ever since then I've been occassionally having my computer screen turn black without warning, and the only way to recover is to reboot. I did some googling, and have tried the following:
- Looked at kernel panic log. No help--my computer has only one recorded kernel panic and that was in 2008.
- Used Onyx to repair permissions and ran several of the other utilities
- Used the original disks to do a hardware test to see if my hard drive was failing or RAM was bad. I did the long test that took an hour or so, and everything came back "OK"
- Reinstalled Snow Leopard (the disk I had was 10.6.3) and then redownloaded the 10.6.6 cumulative update.
The black screen seems to happen about once every week or so. Any ideas on what else I can try, or is my only option to wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall 10.5 from my original disks? How hard is it to recover all my photos, music, moneydance files, office files, etc. off my time machine backup? I've never had to do a time machine recovery and I'm not sure how it works.
- Looked at kernel panic log. No help--my computer has only one recorded kernel panic and that was in 2008.
- Used Onyx to repair permissions and ran several of the other utilities
- Used the original disks to do a hardware test to see if my hard drive was failing or RAM was bad. I did the long test that took an hour or so, and everything came back "OK"
- Reinstalled Snow Leopard (the disk I had was 10.6.3) and then redownloaded the 10.6.6 cumulative update.
The black screen seems to happen about once every week or so. Any ideas on what else I can try, or is my only option to wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall 10.5 from my original disks? How hard is it to recover all my photos, music, moneydance files, office files, etc. off my time machine backup? I've never had to do a time machine recovery and I'm not sure how it works.