05-02-2012, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by notbillcosby
iMac A - 20" core 2 duo, White. The very last white imac model made.
iMac B - 21" core 2 duo, Silver. The first run of silver and black flat panels.
iMac C - 24" core 2 duo, Silver. I THINK this is from the same time period as imac B.
I WOULD believe that it's hardware related because of how quickly Mac A jumps to that panic, except that just now on iMac B, after 2-ish days of running just fine, I flipped on my audio interfaces (maybe the 5th time I've done this in the last two days) and got a panic. The fact that these are all just starting at the same time is nagging at me.
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Thanks for the info on the iMacs...it helps (at least me) to put a "face" on each of your iMacs!
As far as having three iMacs getting kernel panics at the same time...I'm still thinking this is:
- next to impossible (or VERY unlucky)
- a couple of these iMacs were sitting unused (and had existing kernel panics from a long time ago)...and the kernel panics were forgotten until the computers were turned back on.
- someone just recently purchased these three iMacs...and they all had kernel panics when purchased
- some sort of "bad" software is installed on all three (potentially software for a shared peripheral such as a printer).
- someone has been swapping incompatible ram into one or more of these iMacs
- a hardware failure (logic board related) has occurred on one or more of these iMacs causing the KP's
I think that this pretty much covers 99% of the possibilities for KP's occurring on three iMac's at about the same time. It's now your job to narrow down the possibilities...and troubleshoot.
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Originally Posted by notbillcosby
I suppose I could have hardware failure on all 3 of my computers at the same time, but I have a pretty hard time believing that without some sort of definitive proof.
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The definitive proof could be all the troubleshooting you've done so far...and still getting KP's. I think that you need to tackle each one of these computer's one at a time...and after COMPLETELY troubleshooting each one...cross it off the list. If the KP's aren't solved...then it must be a hardware issue.
Start with:
- removing all incompatible ram (if exists)
- try booting from OS disc
- run hardware test from grey disc #2 (if you have the original gray disks for each computer)
- Nick