On 29/9/03 11:59 AM, "Mark Secker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anybody know what underlying issue/s causes this and how to > fault fix on this problem? > Is it Kernel? hardware? bus? > > I've tried searching Apple's knowledge base and Googling but can't > find anything of assistance. > > I have a user that is now experiencing this "multilingual blue screen > of death" three to four times a day. > I have run TechTools & Nortons on the disk with only minor errors > found (such as incorrect date/time), repairing permissions also only > found a small collection of "normal" problems. The console log > records nothing untoward before or during the instant of the crash. > > Before this I've only ever seen this twice in three years of using > OSX, once on my desktop, once on my laptop. > The screen goes light blue than an even lighter blue square rolls > down displaying a multilingual message that there is an error and the > computer has to be shutdown/restarted. After shutdown/restart the > computer has then functioned as normal. > > Both time that this happened to me was because a Firewire device was > physically unplugged while in the middle of transfer operations. > Neither time was there a console/log crash report just sudden OS > death (this FireWire specific bug has since been fixed I believe). > Hi Mark! Are they running a USB Hub of any sort? I've seen this happen with some machines and some types of USB Hubs. (I've now found a Hub that works with no problems, whereas sometimes when the OS had updated there were always issues with certain types of hubs.) Or anything else new been added? Just a stab in the dark for ya! :o) Enjoy! Kind Regards Daniel Kerr --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh**
