Got my new MacBook today, KERNEL PANICS!

[Chansey]

Hi,

I received my new MacBook today, it keeps getting kernel panics all the time. I did an erase and format but it is still the same. I turned off airport and it seems fine, has been OK for an hour now. I have waited 5weeks, what do I do. Return with DOA is not going to work in my case b/c i leave for europe tomorrow morning. I have the latest firmware. Whats wrong with it!?

Axel

 

[KershMan]

Sounds like the Airport card has a loose connection. You may want to reseat the Airport card and make sure the connection is good and then try it again.

 

[seanf]

Where are you going in Europe? If you are taking it with you you should be able to call in at any Apple store and ask them to have a look.

Sean

 

[bearbo]

you should go to a nearby apple store, if available, immediately, and have them replace it... if you really just got it for a day and it's panicing, i'm sure they'd replace it.

 

[Chansey]

i opened it, after some advice that there might be a problem with loose memory sticks. Removed them and they were both soaked in thermal paste (!?)!!! Cleaned them and now it seems to run perfectly.... I am ****ing mad, bad bad bad bad, Apple! I am def gonna contact them about this.

 

[crap freakboy]

i opened it, after some advice that there might be a problem with loose memory sticks. Removed them and they were both soaked in thermal paste (!?)!!! Cleaned them and now it seems to run perfectly.... I am ****ing mad, bad bad bad bad, Apple! I am def gonna contact them about this.

Wow! Thats a new one on me. Time and time again Apples QC seems to be going down the pan. Was it a recon?

 

[bearbo]

i opened it, after some advice that there might be a problem with loose memory sticks. Removed them and they were both soaked in thermal paste (!?)!!! Cleaned them and now it seems to run perfectly.... I am ****ing mad, bad bad bad bad, Apple! I am def gonna contact them about this.

i would, if i were you, get a replacement... you wonder how the thermal paste get on there, and where else is, well, anything

 

[mattster16]

this might seem like a dumb question, but what is a kernel panic? what happens when one occurs?

i had a powerbook from 2004 to 2006 and then now a mbp from late 2006 to present and i have never had one.

 

[nurfen]

Kernel Panic is like a bluescreen, although they call it Kernel Panics so everyone can say that a Mac never gets bluescreens

 

[daneoni]

this might seem like a dumb question, but what is a kernel panic? what happens when one occurs?

i had a powerbook from 2004 to 2006 and then now a mbp from late 2006 to present and i have never had one.

This is a Kernel Panic

 

[n-abounds]

This is a Kernel Panic

Wow, I have never had a kernel panic in the past three years. Nice. <knocks on wood>

 

[e12a]

There was something a LONG time ago on Digg about this so called leaked "thermalpaste" on RAM. Its actually a lubricant to help slide RAM into the slots. some "geniuses" commented that it was indeed a type of lubricant.

but to access the airport card would require opening the computer to replace non-user accessible parts. Bring it back.

 

[Chansey]

Well i m not going to return it now since it works.

Yes it was a recon, which actually upsets me more because it should have been tested 2times instead of 1...

 

[Zwhaler]

This is a Kernel Panic

Yeah, I have had one of those on my iMac, but that was because I removed my iPod without ejecting it, the computer thought I removed a hard drive without telling it (which I pretty much did) rather than anything being wrong with my computer. Good to know!