Angry Acorn Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Hi all, Is anyone handy with a MAC and trouble shooting? any IT guys on here? My Mac keeps having Kernal Panics (forcing me to restart) due to external plugins its seems (e.g. VLC media player, Google Chrome etc) and its really starting to P!ss me off! i cant even watch the Dragon Ball highlight video! iv checked the hard ware and all seems fine, iv cleared the cache on the system and read threw a couple help guides, iv narrowed it down to anything that is downloaded that needed permission to attach it self to the operating system to work, that causes the Kernal Panics.[ANGRY][/ANGRY] its a PAIN in the behind and im not taking it to an apple store due to bad experiences with those guys! plus I like to be able to fix things myself for future references. Please anyone, who can help will be much appreciated! before me or the mac takes a dive for the street! haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Have a look in Startup items - see if anything in there can be dumped. Have you run Disk First Aid through it (in the Utilities folder in applications)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Acorn Posted May 26, 2012 Author Share Posted May 26, 2012 hmm ye iv done disk verification as well as repair on both! iv booted it up with the os installer cd while holding down D to run a check through there aswell as started it in safe mode to try fool it out of panic but still nothing! everytime i use a program that isnt preset on the machine when you buy it, eventually it crashes asking me to restart! its very frustrating! its not a major problem as far as software and hardware its just ye annoyance which i cant seem to get rid of? any idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 I bet its one of the actual ports that hardware is plugged into playing up. we had to have ours replaced after a similar problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Acorn Posted May 26, 2012 Author Share Posted May 26, 2012 thats a problem as i leave uk tomorrow for 2 and abit months and where im going apple doesnt exist hahaha great! I mean i can work around it by avoiding any external programs if u will its just id like to fix or at least identify the problem! i always said pc's give u problems but when a make gives you issues the shit really hits the fan! sigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soopra Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 i know someone with an older Samsung phone that goes into "Kernal Panic Upload Mode" when it changes between being connected to Orange and T Mobile... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamc Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 throw it!! throw it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Acorn Posted May 27, 2012 Author Share Posted May 27, 2012 its a mac book pro!!!! should make for a nice smash i think? see how tough these metal cases really are! its been behaving for the moment though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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