Regular Crashes on my Powerbook

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
he he

i thought the term was a clever way to say the "f-word"

when i have a computer problem, i usually feel like saying the "s-word"

Yeah, it's used that way too.

 

[joker2]

12" airport kernel panics

Originally posted by hugemullens
You got airport? I dont have panther yet but I know on the Rev A 12" powerbooks the airport card can come unseated and cause Kernal Panics galore. I would assume apple worked this out, but just thought i would mention it incase it could be the cause.

Yep, though it may be more than the unseating of the card. Got a rev. B 12" and had an AE card installed... worked fine for 5 minutes in the store, about 5 minutes at home, and then kernel panicked, and would kernel panic every subsequent time I turned Airport on. I took it back in, tried reseating the card, didn't help... they returned/replaced for a new card and I haven't had any problems since

 

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Yeah, it's used that way too.

now i know this is great at teaching the 13 year old posters here, who will be techies in the future, some really bad habits

sometimes i forget who might be reading this board and it's amazing that i have gone this long without getting banned since there are tons of posters from 2000 that have been banned* for, he he, bad language or such, but i couldn't resist since that techie term is easily abused

another term which some of us techies would abuse was SCSI, or small computer system interface, but we used the acronym in some interesting and unflattering ways


*many of those banned posters from the first year of macrumors have made their way, with their bad language intact, to either the site of that former demi who liked harleys or that site spinoff of that former mod named after a fruit not represented in the original fruit flavors of the old imac

if you can guess the url or either site, then you are either an oldtimer here, or you are spending too much time at your job procrastiniating

 

[chazmox]

I've had three kernel panics since installing Panther and two since 10.3.1 ( and I only installed it two days ago ). Not happy with that reliability. I also have a 15 inch PB.

What are some of your experiences with kernel panics? How many have you had? Are they confined to particular machines?

 

[joker2]

more info?

Chazmox: can you give us more information as to when the kernel panics occur? Is it while you are in a specific program or programs? Can you reproduce one at will?

Did you do a clean install of Panther? (either erase disk and clean install, or archive & install?) Does it happen if you create a new user, then log in as that new user and use the same programs?

I haven't had any problems with my 12" pb since I got the airport card replaced, 10.3.1 seems very solid to me.

 

[chazmox]

Did an update and not a clean install. Panther came as part of the $20 Up-to-Date program. I looked for some of the other options and could not find them ( although I did not look too hard - they may have been there and I missed them ).

The first time I crashed ( under 10.3.0 ) I cannot remember the exact situation, but the last time under 10.3.1 was when I was running Cinema 4D ( version 6 ) and I was coming back from sleep. This is when the kernel panic occurred.

I believe the second time ( there have been three occurances ) happenned under the same circumstances, although I may be wrong. I will look and take note if it happens again.

I usually have two users running. The last two crashes have happenned under one of the users. Repaired permissions last night - hopefully this helps.

 

[drMinky]

Don't know if this helps, but I had terrible kernal panics on my Jaguar/1GHz SD Tibook (stupid USB ADSL modem! - NEVER buy one!) that couldn't be fixed by removing the offending drivers (I think I'd had so many, I'd corrupted my filesystem or something). So, when Panther first came out I jumped and did a clean install. On first attempt though, I forgot my machine was still plugged into an ethernet network during the install. The result was crazy. Much to my shock and disappointment, the machine was kernal panicing almost as bad as Jaguar was (about every 20mins)..on a clean install!

Tried another clean install, this time making sure the machine was plugged into NOTHING (except power) and have not seen another kernal panic or even an 'unexpectedly quit' message ever since! : )

Another guy at work had problems with installing programs after a clean install of Panther..was fixed on second go...

Strangely enough, it seems that with installing Panther, the 'if at first you don't suceed, try again' seems to actually work!

 

[chazmox]

An update...

Still having problems - no recent kernal panics but today the finder gave me the eternal spining beach ball. I tried restarting the finder, but after three attempt I had to just give up and restart my machine.

Also, I am having some funny business networking my PowerBook with my iMac. I set filesharing up and everything is fine. But after I return to the computer after a few hours away, filesharing is still on; however, they cannot connect with each other. I usually have to shut down/restart file sharing on the PB and then everything is fine... at least for a little while.

It's kind of irritating when your wireless network becomes a sneaker net as you run from one machine to the other!

 

[oldschool]

Originally posted by chazmox
It's kind of irritating when your wireless network becomes a sneaker net as you run from one machine to the other!

hahahaha i know exactly what you mean...my printer sharing never works properly and i end up going back and forth endlessly.