Hardware Crash, mac crash under OSX Options

[eaks]

theres people saying that a computer running mac OSX shall never crash. What should I think of mine, sometimes crashing for no appearent reason. could it be the non-kingston ram? or the 2408 mkII audio card?

the screen turns darker and the computer freezes on a message in 4 languages saying I have to press the power button for several time so it can shut. Sometimes it's accompanied by a few messages such as cpu0 panic and/or talking about ethernet routing or wrong ip adresses. But most of the time, th ethernet wire is unplugged from that computer (G4 2x1,25Ghz w/ 1,75Ghz RAM)

any suggestions?
did it ever happened to one of you guys?

[jaffi]

Sounds like you're either having kernel panicks or your memory does indeed suck. What brand did you get? I would never get anything other than Apple's stuff, Kingston, or Crucial. I prefer Crucial because it's the cheapest of the three and is guaranteed. Have you tried repairing permissions?

This post has been edited by jaffi: Sun 19 Jun 2005, 20:12

[lepetitmartien]

Sure it can be the RAM. Also, on which flavour of OS X are you running?

Save the OS, which software are usually running?

It IS a kernel panic, that is, something got very very wrong at a low level of the system. Usually it's either an old version of Panther (below 10.3.6 mostly), some software (I had mines with some JAVA apps), or stupid things like RAM not totally Mac compatible.

[dixiechicken]

Check also if your mouse and keyboard and/or your extra USB-Hub - if you got one.
Remove the usb-hub, replace or borrow a fresh usb-mouse and/or keyboard and try again.

I got lot's av kernel panics when my "ms optical usb mouse" went on the blink.
Replaced it and havent had crash since.

Cheers: Dixiechicken

[eaks]

thanks for the tips guys, Ill check this all out. I'm on OSX panther 10.3.9 so it shouldnt be that. My keyboard is a Mac one (white & clear) and my mouse is a logitech with which I never had problems before. But the rest is all to check...

Lets say I have no time to fix it before a week or so, could it be harmful to my mac?

thanks again

[lepetitmartien]

No not harmful for the mac, but on the software level you may never know… Try to keep things clean to the max, I'd run once a day the Apple drive utility to be sure (restart from the instal disk and select the ADU from the install menu).

it's not the end of the world but something is wrong.

[Chris C.L]

I have an I-mac which crashes when woken up from sleep. OS10.3.7. It has been hapening since installing speed touch modem from btyarhoo. They say they cant keep up with all the software updates. No hope getting Tiger for a few years as long as I stay with BT.

[lepetitmartien]

Speed Touch are made by Alcatel and are well known offenders… They've NEVER been able to produce a single working driver with no fuss.

The iMac crashing on waking up is a known problem on some first generation G5 imacs. I'm not sure but 10.3.9 may help (read it somewhere…)(clone before updating), I'd look on a general mac forum likeMacOSg (was G5 support group) to be sure.

[Chris C.L]

I will download 10.3.9 lepetitmartian cheers. I have a G4 i-mac tough and had the machine a year before going broadband/speedtouch without this trouble. I now leave the mac for a while after wakeing which has reduced creshes.
Is is healthy to leave the machine on sleep or should it be shut down after use?