Kernel Panics Galore!

[CzarDM]

To all the experts out there, I recently purchased a single quad 08 Mac Pro with 2Gigs og RAM. I've been regularly experiencing 1 or 2 kernel panics a day on this machine. I checked disk permissions, ran the hardware tests including memtest and everything checks out fine. One thing that I noticed is a constant is that the machine has always experienced the panic while Firefox was in use. Please see below for the panic log. Can anybody help me decipher this?


Wed Mar 5 12:57:13 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A8C8A): Kernel trap at 0x00ba3fc1, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000000, CR3: 0x01020000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x00000036, ECX: 0x08c1ea54, EDX: 0x000186a0
CR2: 0x00000000, EBP: 0x00108b18, ESI: 0x0456bb80, EDI: 0x00108ff0
EFL: 0x00010006, EIP: 0x00ba3fc1, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00000000

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x108918 : 0x12b0e1 (0x457024 0x10894c 0x13321a 0x0)
0x108968 : 0x1a8c8a (0x460550 0xba3fc1 0xe 0x45fd00)
0x108a48 : 0x19eb67 (0x108a60 0x108a74 0x108b18 0xba3fc1)
0x108a58 : 0xba3fc1 (0xe 0x28100048 0x10 0x10)
0x108b18 : 0xba4b08 (0x0 0x2f 0x12 0x0)
0x108b58 : 0xba4c6d (0x0 0x0 0x0 0x51c6e8)
0x108cb8 : 0xba4dcb (0x1 0x4 0xbaf8e0 0x0)
0x108cf8 : 0xba4be9 (0x4 0xbaf8e0 0x0 0x0)
0x108d38 : 0xb99283 (0xbb0d5c 0xbb1830 0x0 0x0)
0x108d98 : 0xb92476 (0x41c3810 0x108e58 0x1 0x1)
0x108dd8 : 0xb94a2c (0x41c3810 0xbb6f5c 0x108e58 0x40)
0x108e08 : 0xb94a61 (0x41c3810 0x8 0x108e58 0x0)
0x108e38 : 0xb9167f (0x41c3810 0x8 0x108e58 0x3930858)
0x108ea8 : 0xba08ca (0x41c3810 0xbb53f4 0x18f60 0x0)
0x108ed8 : 0xb7af71 (0x3d4a954 0x41f5ef50 0xd 0xbb53f4)
0x108f08 : 0x73fa0d (0x456bb80 0x36 0x238cc000 0x0)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.kext.ATY_Lamna(5.2.4)@0xb45000->0xbbdfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0x735000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)@0x709000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5.1)@0x719000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.2.0)@0x6af000
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0x735000->0x742fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4.1)@0x709000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5.1)@0x719000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
9C31

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0: Tue Feb 5 16:13:22 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.3.13~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)

 

[CzarDM]

bump

 

[IJ Reilly]

Most frequent kernel panics are hardware related. Since your Mac is new, I would have Apple look into it.

 

[kittiyut]

1 or 2 /day??? That's crazy, esp for a new machine!!! Since converting to a MAC over a year ago (starting with MBP) I have yet to experience a kernel panic. NOT ONCE! (knock wood)

Have you tried doing a "clean" install?

 

[IJ Reilly]

Please, do not clean install; this is not only unlikely to help, it could make the situation worse. This Mac is under warranty, take it in for service.