Agreed. I was running for months with a cheap 512 chip added to my PB (giving me a gig). When the upgrade happened, same thing. I started chasing all kinds of stuff based on what was loading when it paniced, etc. The apple dude yanked the new memory chip (which, when he did it, had me shaking my head - it was *obvious* to me the upgraded os was broken since the memory has been fine for months -- what are the chances that my memory went south at precisely at the moment of upgrade... )
Sure enough, the thing just booted up and ran flawlessly. Apparently, the new os level is incredibly sensitive to memory quality. (probably a feature added by the high end memory makers - since we are entertaining conspiracy theories on gbooks.) I thought it was the uplift to 10.3 that did this, but its been a while. Might have been 10.2. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon Mar 14 13:47:27 2005 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Kernel Panic On Mar 14, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Adam Hargrove wrote: > My first time having to deal with this, I'd love some assistance. > > I have an old 466MHz SE Graphite iBook (the clamshell one). I had > 10.1.5 up on the machine and yesterday tried to upgrade to 10.2. The > upgrade went through well apparently until time to reboot. Now it > "kernel panics". > > Following Apple's documentation, I've reset NVRAM & PRAM and tried to > boot from the Mac OS X.2 install disc. When this happens, it boots to > the gray apple, then I get video problems (once an overly bright > screen wash, once lots of verticle gray lines) and a freeze. A soft > restart is possible (Apple-ctrl-Power), so I've not reset the PMU. > Reseat your RAM, possibly replace it...such kernel panics are usually related to poor ram. (although if you had OS 10.1 installed it should have given you hassles before.) It could also well be a munged upgrade. Try resetting the PRAM three or four times in a row (hold down control-alt-p-r until it bongs that many times. Some people recommend ten times for particularly resilient NVRAM resets) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pha cy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --------------------------------------------------------------- -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
