I just got my macbook today and..

I'll play on it a for a while and it tells me I need to restart my computer, but it wont let me click anywheres, to go to restart. So I have to just turn it off. I don't know why this keeps coming up. I installed AIM earlier and this was the first time it came up, it didnt let it finish installing. So once I started the computer again I installed and kept playing. Now after a little while of messing around the computer it keeps popping up telling me I need to restart. I'm new to macs and I have no idea what to do.

thats a kernel panic and means theres a good chance you have some defective hardware. Have you installed new ram or anything?

first guess - Airport card - this is getting all too common

Go to the Finder - Click on Macintosh HD on left side - then Library - Logs - and open panic log -

With multiple kernel panics the first day and if all the logs have "Airport Atheros" in them, would take it back and exchange it

bobtomay said:

first guess - Airport card - this is getting all too common

Go to the Finder - Click on Macintosh HD on left side - then Library - Logs - and open panic log -

With multiple kernel panics the first day and if all the logs have "Airport Atheros" in them, would take it back and exchange it

Click to expand...

I've had my MB for about 8 months and have had 2 kernel panics. Both of them have that "Airport Atheros" line in there. Should I be concerned?

Got my MBP the same day I signed up here - my KP's started at the end of May and have now had a total of 6 - all related to the Airport card - and am online maybe 20-30 hours a week - I have done some research online - have not called Apple - so I do not know what their response would be with this issue when it is not reproducible.

And 5 of the 6 KP's I've had have been when nothing was running except my browser. This issue is sometimes totally eliminated simply be using a different router. I have another one, but have not had the KP's bother me enough yet to cause me to switch them out to try it.

To answer your question, 2 in 8 months, would not worry about it myself.

bobtomay said:

first guess - Airport card - this is getting all too common

Go to the Finder - Click on Macintosh HD on left side - then Library - Logs - and open panic log -

With multiple kernel panics the first day and if all the logs have "Airport Atheros" in them, would take it back and exchange it

Click to expand...

Could I have done anything to cause this to happen?
It started this after I installed AIM, so I deleted.

And I have no idea what "Airport Atheros", sorry I'm dumb when it comes to this stuff. I went look at the panic logs but I have no clue what I'm looking at.

How about if I post what the panic log says?

Don't need to know what it is, just look in the log - do you see Airport Atheros listed there?

It will look similar to this:
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros(230.8.5)@0x41d3a000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.1)@0x3bdc4000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x35b9f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(160.2)@0x41d1b000

It will not be in bold: did that to point where it will be located - and towards the bottom of the log

Mkay, I don't see Airport.Atheros anywheres. This is it says, (one of them, but they're all mostly the same)

Sat Jul 7 16:22:47 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A429B): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 13=general protection), registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x1600a000, CR3: 0x02867000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x2ccc659c, EBX: 0x15a73c58, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x2cde0ffc
CR2: 0x1600a000, EBP: 0x04aa2200, ESI: 0x00000001, EDI: 0x00000005
EFL: 0x00010297, EIP: 0x15a73c72, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x15a73a48 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb204 0x15a73a6c 0x131de5 0x0)
0x15a73a88 : 0x1a429b (0x3d0f1c 0x0 0xd 0x3d072c)
0x15a73b98 : 0x19ada4 (0x15a73bb0 0x0 0x0 0x0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x4aa2200

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.3: Fri Apr 27 14:50:07 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.19.5~2/RELEASE_I386

Yours is not related to the Airport card - no telling what it is based on that report.

Read the following 2 posts and run the tests noted.

cwa107's post

mathogre's post

However, if they are happening pretty much continuosly, with various different programs running, and this is a brand new machine - would take it back for an exchange or call Apple.