[X4U] Kernel Panics - how often is too often?

[Jim Elmore]

I caught one of the processors "crashing". It would hang up at 100%  
use. Sometimes I'd get a kernel panic, other times not. Fortunately,  
the computer was under an extended warranty and Apple replaced the  
processor. That fixed things. A kernel panic is very rare now -- once  
in over a year.

Jim Elmore
(918) 688-6417



On Nov 3, 2006, at 2:24 PM, eleventhvolume wrote:

>> I've personally had only two Kernel Panics since upgrading to OSX
>> several years ago (started at 10.1 and am now at 10.4.8). A co-worker
>> of mine however gets one every three to four months. She has the
>> identical system to me, Dual 1 Ghz G4 Quciksilver. Whenever they
>> happen I usually just shrug it off, reboot and continue. At what
>> point should we be concerned? Is one ever three to four months too
>> often?
>
> I think the Quicksilver is the mirror door G4? If so, we have one  
> of these
> as an asset management/music playing machine at work. Despite  
> buying new
> reliable RAM and doing a clean system install w/ latest updates, etc +
> checking connections, and so on, we continue to suffer kernel  
> panics. A (Mac
> specialist) service engineer told us this week that quite a few  
> mirror door
> Macs are susceptible to this sort of problem - he mentioned  
> something about
> bus speed and data throughput, but unfortunately my mind clouded  
> over at
> that point. HTH.
>
> Cheers, Colin.
>
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