OT, first screen on clean install a Kernal Panic?

[Jerry Hofmann]

Chris, It doesn’t even boot and get the KP?

Jerry

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[Chris Poisson]

Hey Jerry,

No, after install, the first screen up was a KP, on restart after that, it booted, it just gave me the creeps.

Have a wonderful day.

[Rafael Amador]

Chris,
After a clean install last week in my MBP (only the system) I’d run DiskWarrior. The 27% of the files were “Out of Order”.
It seems that the “Optimizing Disk Performance” doesn’t works much.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Kevin Monahan]

I would reinitialize, then reinstall. Then do the voodoo jig three times around the machine. That should do it.

Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Kevin Monahan] ” would reinitialize, then reinstall. Then do the voodoo jig three times around the machine. That should do it.”

Agreed.

[J. Tad newberry]

Maybe it’s the season. I did the same a few weeks ago, and was getting the same problems. I had just bought Tech Tool Pro, which showed a few minor problems on the system drive, and i was having a few funny problems anyway, so i figured i would just wipe everything out and do a clean install. I seriously tried more than 10 times to run a clean OS install and would KP’s sometimes, good boots other times, but then the graphic display looked very “chunky” with lots of dropouts. On top of that, my drive would speed up to horrendous speeds. I thought it might start to levitate, and i could smell as well as feel a serious heat problem inside the tower. I found it was my graphics card, which probably accounted for the chunky graphics earlier? Anyway, since i couldn’t do a very reputable clean install, i took it to the Mac Store and they had it for a week and weren’t able to find anything seriously wrong, but they were able to wipe the drive and do a good clean install. Since then, all has been pretty well, but a few times my drive will still speed up and sound a little noisy on restarts. It is three years old, so maybe it is time to get a new drive.

Anyway, in a nutshell, my solution was to have the tech guys do the clean install. Although I still have no idea what they did differently than what I did, so I’m guessing that maybe my original install disc is bad, possessed, or otherwise corrupted.

thanks again!

mh

[John Pale]

Kernal panics are almost always hardware (or drivers that allow the computer to communicate with hardware) related.

Sometimes people forget to install the latest version of drivers after a clean install. If you are using any peripherals or PCI cards, make sure you have the most current drivers installed.

[J. Tad newberry]

That is a good point, and ended up being part of my problem as well. Do you know if there is a relatively easy way to keep up with all those driver updates? I don’t think the automatic Mac utility (“Software Update”) finds all that stuff.

thanks again!

mh

[David Roth weiss]

Mortimer,

In fact the Apple Sotware Updater is the best way to keep up to date, but you have to run it more than once, and keep running it until you get a message that says “your software is up to date.”

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[J. Tad newberry]

Thanks, but i do that already. Are you saying the updater also grabs all applicable drivers for my cards and drives and everything? If so, that is very cool and I had not realized it. I just figured it only updated all my software/applications and OS stuff.

thanks again!

mh