Hi Adrian & Peter & David, When a kernel panic occurs, a log of the event is usually saved in the file “panic.log” in the Mac HD > Library > Logs folder.
Double click the panic log and a new console window will open. New panic logs are added to the end of panic.log. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 19/01/2010, at 8:48 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: > > For what its worth, and I could be wrong, but I had this problem some time > ago and I seem to recall that it turned out to be caused by a dead internal > battery. > > Regards, > > Adrian > adrianske...@me.com > > On 19/01/2010, at 8:23 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> >> >> On 18/01/2010, at 12:25 PM, David Noel wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Gang -- >>> >>> -- A surprise this morning. I was working on my iMac when a grey tint >>> came over my screen, and a message came up that I had to restart the >>> machine by pressing the power button till it closed, then pressing >>> again till it restarted. This worked OK, but I am puzzled by what >>> caused it. The temperature is 42 deg here, could this have any >>> bearing? >>> >>> David Noel / Jan >>> (Intel iMac, 10.6.2) >> >> >> This is the Mac OS X equivalent of the Windows "Blue Screen of Death", and >> occurs in response to a "Kernel Panic". Fortunately they are seen very >> rarely in a properly-running Mac, and but can be produced by any number of >> factors, heat being one of them. If you haven't already done so, download a >> copy of the iStat Pro Widget <http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/>. This >> handy little Dashboard Widget tells you at a glance what the operating >> temperature of your computer and CPU is at a glance. >> -- >> >> Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services >> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer >> Perth, Western Australia >> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
