[X4U] Mac Mini's prone to kernal panics?

[Richard Gilmore]

He does have a 512 stick of third party cheap-o-RAM. But I bought the same
brand stick of no name RAM for my G5 and it's fine. But that could be the
problem. I'll see about switching it.

I wiped out the entire drive and reinstalled Tiger and that much lessened
the number of panics but he still gets one every now and again.

Thanx




On 4/5/06 4:11 PM, "Randy B.Singer" <randy at macattorney.com> wrote:

> Richard Gilmore said:
> 
>> I have a friend with a PPC Mac Mini with 512 of RAM and Tiger. He was
>> getting constant kernal panics so I reinstalled the system and it is better
>> but he still gets them occasionally are the Mini¹s prone to them?
> 
> 
> *No* Macintosh running OS X is prone to kernel panics.  If you see more
> than one or two kernel panics per year you should consider that highly
> unusual.  (I've *never* seen a kernel panic on one of my personal Macs.
> And I've been using various versions of OS X on several Macs, everyday
> for 5 years.)
> 
> Kernel panics are usually (but not always) caused by a hardware problem.
> Most commonly it is out-of-spec third party RAM, or a bad USB hub, using
> an iSight with other peripherals, or a problematic PCI card (obviously
> not a problem with a Mac mini).  But the problem can be caused by just
> about any peripheral, or by having too many peripherals attached to one
> bus.
> 
> The thing to do is to return the mini to an out-of-box state, with no
> third-party hardware attached/installed, make sure that there are no
> software problems (run Disk Utility/Repair Disk or Disk Warrior, and
> maybe do an archive and install of the OS to be sure that it is pristine)
> and see if the problem goes away.  If it doesn't, your Mac needs to go
> back to Apple for repair.  More than likely it will be fine.  You can
> then add things to it one at a time to see which causes that problem.
> 
> 
> 
> Randy B. Singer
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> 
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