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To preface, this is all occurring on a 12" Powerbook with a 1.5 GHz G4, 1.25 GB of RAM, running Mac OS X 10.4.10
I was surfing around on the net while watching TV when a kernel panic just struck. I then restarted the computer, waited for a while, and the login screen never came. However, I could still hear the hard drive spinning. I tried to restart again, same result. Seeing as how it's hard to access files on a hard drive when you can't see the monitor, I decided to plug my Powerbook into my parent's iMac and see if it would work under Firewire Target Disk mode. The hard drive appears to be working fine. As a precaution, I checked it over with DiskWarrior, and there doesn't appear to be a drive issue at all. I am currently, as even more of a precaution, in the process of backing everything up from my Powerbook onto the iMac, just in case. The weird thing, though, is that while the monitor doesn't turn on during a normal boot, it does come on during Target Disk Mode, with a firewire symbol bouncing around the screen as is expected. I then delved in Console.app to find the panic log. Problem is, I really have no idea what it is telling me. I presume that, based on the symptoms the laptop has displayed, and the small amount of text I can decipher from the log, something must be going wrong with the graphics card (which I think is a GeForceGo 5200). Here's the panic log: Quote:
Edit: After running in Target Disk Mode for a while, I started the computer back up again. It made it to the login screen, and then another kernel panic. I then tried another time 3 hours later, and was able to use it for about 10 minutes before I got another kernel panic. My guess is something with the logic board, which kicks in when the computer heats up a little bit. Taking it to an Apple Store to have checked it tomorrow, but if anyone wants to chime in with a conversation, I'd appreciate it. Last edited by agent302 : 2007-07-30 at 22:28. |
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Not being an expert in the least, but this is what jumps out at me
com.apple.GeForce(4.1.8)@0x9ff000 Graphics card. |
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Yep. Did this occur only once? If so, I wouldn't worry about it much. If it's repetitive, though, you need to have a technician look at it, which probably effectively means a motherboard replacement.
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"I'm learnding!"
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Yeah, it happened twice more, fairly quickly after start up. Haven't had a chance to look at the log file for those 2 panics, but I suspect the same thing.
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From the looks of things the graphics card is the source of the problem, which means you most likely will need a new logicboard.
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