Hi, The first thing I'd do in this sort of case is to shutdown the machine totally. While it's off, remove the power cord, leave it out for about one minute then make sure it is firmly back in at both ends. If you are also using a power bar, then take it out of the loop if you can. This will do a number of things. First, it will confirm whether your problem is the computer itself or if it has something to do with an outside factor. Second, it should reset some things within your power supply logic system in case there was confusion there.
If the problem persists, you can do the Repair Disk Permissions which you can do by going into the Utilities folder (cmd-shift-u when in the Finder), selecting the Macintosh HD, selecting the First Aid tab and clicking the Repair Disk Permissions button. It may take a while depending on how many errors your HD has. If it continues the problem, then we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-10-28, at 8:23 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > My mac recently started restarting with no warning. It has done this three or > four times now, and I don't know why. The only clue is something about a > kernel trap in the report, but that does not mean much to me. The only thing > I have changed recently is installing a MenuTab update a few days ago. Google > mentioned something about looking at startup items and somehow being able to > spot ML incompatibilities that way, but how would I do this? It also > suggested repairing permissions, but I don't know how to do that either. Any > help, or other suggestions to fix the problem, would be greatly appreciated. > Thankfully, the mac is able to restore me to where I was, even partially > restoring an email I was writing at one point, so it isn't as bad as when > Windows decides to restart. Still, this isn't updates-related like it would > be on Windows, and I'm praying there is no serious hardware problem as I > don't have Apple Care, nor do I have the money to pay for repairs or a new > machine. If anyone wants to donate to the Alex Wants a Macbook fund, email me > off-list. <smile> > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
