" you need to restart your computer........."

GRRunner · Feb 20, 2006

Two years no problems with my iBook. Now, while working, screen darkens, " you need to restart your computer........." message appears on screen and everything freezes forcing a restart. what could be happening?

mynameis · Feb 20, 2006

Its called a Kernel Panic, look it up on Apple's support site.

coach_z · Feb 20, 2006

a common cause of kernel panics is due to bad ram.

PowerBookG4 · Feb 20, 2006

or ram that is not propperly seeded.. if you added more ram recently try to take it out and put it back in firmly.

Pierre · Feb 21, 2006

then restart your computer ;-)

Mace · Feb 21, 2006

ah, so that's what a kernel panic is. I never really knew what it stemmed from, just that it wasn't good. Hope your problem works out quickly.

iRock · Feb 21, 2006

Oh no.... dudes... that happened to me before this happened... see post:
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31018

..... Now its just not working like it should.... I cant listen to any iTunes or anything..... I havent touched the RAM or anything like that and I have my iBook for over a year now.

PowerBookG4 · Feb 21, 2006

iRock said:
Oh no.... dudes... that happened to me before this happened... see post:
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31018

..... Now its just not working like it should.... I cant listen to any iTunes or anything..... I havent touched the RAM or anything like that and I have my iBook for over a year now.

You are not exactly allowed to promote your own thread in somebody elses thread.. It is not really polite either.

coach_z · Feb 21, 2006

i just realized his ibook falls into the time frame for the logic board replacement thing for ibooks. the described cause of his problems does not match what could go wrong, but might be the beginning. bring it to an apple store and see whats up.

-chris

iRock · Feb 22, 2006

PowerBookG4 said:
You are not exactly allowed to promote your own thread in somebody elses thread.. It is not really polite either.

Apologies.... I was just trying to get to the bottom of a problem with my iBook too.