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A week or so ago I began having kernel panics. I have a MBP that was purchased in 7/2007. I researched this forum and found suggestions ( http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/151975-how-do-you-fix-kernel-panic.html ) to repair. I conducted all the tests and found the video controller was a problem. I went in to our local Apple store and met with a Genius. He found the problem was with the video controller and the repair was to replace the entire logic board. The controller is part of this and couldn't be fixed by itself.
The computer was over-nighted to the repair facility in Texas. It was repaired and again over-nighted to me in So. California. Four days to get a practically new computer. Thank goodness for Apple Care.
Here is what I learned during this ordeal. Before I determined the panics were caused by hardware problems, I reinstalled Leopard a total of 5 times. Doing this by archiving and installing produces another complete version of the Leopard disk. Pretty soon, the hard disk was filled. Time Machine can not be used to bring your entire hard drive back to a previous version. It can only be used to restore individual files. There is a way to delete these previous system files, thereby freeing a lot of disk space. In my case, I got back 60 GB!
The computer was over-nighted to the repair facility in Texas. It was repaired and again over-nighted to me in So. California. Four days to get a practically new computer. Thank goodness for Apple Care.
Here is what I learned during this ordeal. Before I determined the panics were caused by hardware problems, I reinstalled Leopard a total of 5 times. Doing this by archiving and installing produces another complete version of the Leopard disk. Pretty soon, the hard disk was filled. Time Machine can not be used to bring your entire hard drive back to a previous version. It can only be used to restore individual files. There is a way to delete these previous system files, thereby freeing a lot of disk space. In my case, I got back 60 GB!