Kernel panic?
ummmm…..I need some advice….has anyone ever experiecned or came over a similar incident?
It happend once in the middle of december when I was playing “chopper” in which I downloaded from the apple website…all of a sudden there was a beep, and a small screen came up saying that I had to restart my computer!!! Then when I turned it off by pressing the power button…then on again….it said “mac os quitted unexpectedly” This happened twice that day….another when I tried to use parallels…. I ended up unistalling the game. THere was “peace” for a while everything worked perfectly…until today……while I left my computer on for some time and the screen saver was on….it happened again (except no “beep”)! Its not really an issue…cuz now everythings back to normal and works flawlessly. But, I’m wondering should I take the incidents more seriously? I ran an apple hardware test which said nothing was wrong with the computer.
anyone ever expereinced this?
p.s in early june I dropped my macbook…which broke the screen, the drive, and impaired the battery…all of which was covered under the warranty……… from that moment everything was good for like six months till it happend in decembe
Operating systems do this to protect the system. It’s usually because the operating system comes across something that it cannot resolve and has not choice but to exit.
In Windows it’s called the Blue Screen of Death.
In Mac OS you get a little computer in the middle of the screen.
It’s possible that a small area of your hard drive has been damaged and when your computer accesses that area of hard drive it returns the corrupted data to the operating system causing a crash.
You probably don’t see the error very often because the corrupted area is limited to a small area on the hard disk.
In Windows you would run a CHKDSK or Scandisk to check the disk for errors.
In OS X there is a disk utility which looks like it does the same thing. It’s been a little while since I used a Mac!
You’ll probably only ever see the error when your hard drive tries to access the small damaged part. Most disk utilities worth their salt can actually scan the drive and then flag parts of the disk as ‘bad’ so that the operating system doesn’t use them anymore.
Hi,
I also have a Mac-book Black 2.2Ghz and have encountered this problem around 5 times since I have had the mac (over a year).
I don’t think it is anything to worry about so long as it does not happen often or cause a major problem. I never stressed about it!