When was your Mac crashing and what kind of Mac? I still can't run
Time Machine without my iMac G5 (the model just before they started
installing the iSight camera) crashing. I called Apple and had the
external drive reformatted to Jurnalled or something. Didn't fix the
problem. And now my Apple Care is out of date.
Jeff M
On Apr 15, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Every few weeks, I get the blue screen notifying me of a crash
dump. Maybe
the computer has diarrhea:) Anyway, it restarts the computer. Why
is it done
and is it necessary?
Very necessary. You are being punished for using Vista.
Something that happens so infrequently is going to be very hard to
address using "normal" troubleshooting methods. Instead I would note
the
time that the crash dump was generated and then look through all the
system logs to see what messages were posted in the minutes just
before
the crash dump.
This is easier to do if you can see all the logs at once. Can Vista do
that? Apple's latest OS just added that ability to its log viewer
and it
is making my life a lot easier.
I recently had a driver-related problem on a Mac and with three
crashes
to work on I noticed that a particular driver was being loaded just
before each crash. I quick call to the vendor confirmed it as a known
problem with a patch available.
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