MBP C2D Kernel Panic

[Fredou51]

It's not really the machine's fault so much as the memory manufacturer.

So you really think it's a memory problem for everyone in this thread?

One thing that could make an increase in case of kernel panic is that the 2.33 GHz 15" and 17" now come with two ram stick instead of one like before so it basically doubles the chance of getting at least one bad stick.

Frederic

 

[Outsiderdude26]

I had 4 kernel panic in 6 days so I took it to the nearest Apple store.. they ran the diangostic and it seem like some MBP are suffering from some form software corruption. They tried blaiming the kernel panics on that but I insisted that they take a look at it. Mine also had a battery problem.

 

[Bidochon]

I phoned the aplle care. I have to find if it is one of the memory sticks or the main memory module on the mother board. In the first case they will ship me a new 1G stick, in the second case I'll have to send them back.

 

[Bidochon]

It seems that my memory is ok. I bought a #00 screw driver and remove the first stick. Everything was fine. I put it back. Everything was fine (the hardware test was ok after 3 tests ans 20 minutes. It took me 8 sec to have an error yesterday. The first stick was certainly bad settled.
Anyway. I hope I won't have any kernel panic anymore. Hope this will work for everyone.

 

[iBorg20181]

Causes for kernel panic

In every forum discussion of kernel panics, the #1 suspect in posts is the ram. This may, or may not be true, but according to Apple,

A kernel panic is a type of error that occurs when the core (kernel) of an operating system receives an instruction in an unexpected format, or that it fails to handle properly. A kernel panic may also follow when the operating system is not able to recover from a different type of error. A kernel panic can be caused by damaged or incompatible software or, more rarely, damaged or incompatible hardware.

I've had perhaps a half dozen kernel panics, with as many different units over the past 4-6 years, and none of them developed a pattern of recurrence, or needed replacement of ram or any other hardware - no cause found.

iBorg

 

[AvMac]

I got a Kernel Panic the first day I received my MBP C2D a week back. It was quite a scare.

I was playing a DVD with DVDplayer and at the same time trying to play a movie preview on Front Row when I got the shut down message.

I had airport on and was wirelessly connected to the internet.

Since that first occurance, I have tried many times to replicate the same scenario but luckily it never repeated.

However, I have registered a case with Applecare and they have asked me to call back if it ever repeats again and they would see how to proceed from there.

A swap is a possible option but after reading so many posts about other issues like uneven brighness, grainy screens, etc, I am not very keen to get a replacement as my MBP has no such issues.

Here is the Panic Log. Maybe someone can tell if it looks familiar.

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0035ACCF): mbuf address out of range 0x4310064
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x25bd3ab8 : 0x128d08 (0x3c9afc 0x25bd3adc 0x131de5 0x0)
0x25bd3af8 : 0x35accf (0x3ea238 0x4310064 0x25bd3b68 0x1416ad)
0x25bd3b18 : 0x239929 (0x1 0x2 0x378f2700 0x44fa754)
0x25bd3c28 : 0x2384d1 (0x59f75a4 0x39fa21b6 0x39fa275e 0x400a8c0)
0x25bd3e08 : 0x22d1f4 (0x378f2700 0x14 0x25bd3e38 0x2)
0x25bd3e48 : 0x22ec55 (0x378f2700 0x14 0x6 0x0)
0x25bd3f58 : 0x21c3d1 (0x378f2700 0x378f2700 0x44407c 0x1a1ec0)
0x25bd3f98 : 0x202c8e (0x4bf6804 0x378f2700 0x37914016 0x1)
0x25bd3fc8 : 0x19a77c (0x0 0x0 0x10 0x5818880) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28 20:43:26 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.14.14.obj~1/RELEASE_I386


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[kkumar99]

airport problems??

I just experienced the 2nd kernel panic within 3 days on my brand new C2D 2.33 2GB 160HD Macbook Pro. The panic.log entries for both cases look virtually the same (see below). In both cases Firefox 2.0 was running (web browsing via wireless connection from Linksys router WRT54GS and range expander WRE54G). The panic.log entries seem to indicate that the problems may have been related to the wireless network.

So I run a macbook, and over the past couple weeks I have had a number of kernel panics, in a variety of situations. The one constant I have noticed is that it only occurs at my friends apartment, never at mine, nor my gf's...I took it to the apple store, they ran a hardware check, and everything checked out...the one thing i did find was that there have been some problems with the mbp and the airport card...apple released an update..
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304420
I hope this is the problem...not sure about which router, but it seems to be a constant that everyone's on a wireless network...good luck