Kernel panic troubleshooting advice

Hi there,
Just want to make sure I'm covering all my bases here. I've ran through this stuff (on 10.5 and 10.6), and any other rec's would be great:

⁃ run Apple Hardware Test
⁃ no problems with RAM or other hardware
⁃ Repair disk and permissions start up disk
⁃ have sufficient RAM and available disk space
⁃ third party applications for updated, compatible
⁃ drivers and kernel extensions updated
⁃ network connections and cables for peripherals all good
⁃ removing peripherals

The only thing I can think of that is left would be an archive and install, but I would like to avoid that if possible.

Lemme know,
Jon

Open the crash log and look at it. The last couple of lines of the top section can sometimes give a hint of the root cause. The long list below that is basically all the drivers that are loaded.

Post some if not all the log here and i'm sure we will be able to help further.

- Simon

Clarification

Thanks for the tips guys, sorry I wasn't more clear in the first post, but I am writing some documentation for my work, and I was hoping to get more troubleshooting ideas.

I don't have a crash log to post, but that is definitely going on the list.

Any other ideas?

G'day and welcome to the forums jonmo.

This may help:-

Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews

Also to determine HDD problems as sometimes AHT and Disk Utility do not throw them up, download and install SMARTReporter to reports on S.M.A.R.T. status.


http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/