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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
13"Pro Kernel Panics
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<blockquote data-quote="EvenStranger" data-source="post: 1174611" data-attributes="member: 181804"><p>You can't very well get rid of WindowServer - that's the software that draws your interface on the screen, and is part of the OS. My guess is that it's a bad graphics chip... you're getting a page fault on CPU1, which from my experience, tends to mean a RAM failure. However, the 13" MacBook uses built-in memory for video. The logs are showing the following:</p><p></p><p>Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):</p><p>com.apple.GeForce(6.2.6)@0xc55000->0xd0afff</p><p>dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.2.6)@0x967000</p><p>dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0x95a000</p><p>dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x927000</p><p>dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x938000</p><p>com.apple.NVDAResman(6.2.6)@0x967000->0xc54fff</p><p>dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x927000</p><p>dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0x95a000</p><p>dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x938000</p><p></p><p>So if the computer is drawing windows and moving them around (using WindowServer) and the graphics chip is bad or the RAM is bad, it'll throw an error and panic.</p><p></p><p>So, for initial testing - If you feel comfortable removing the RAM, I'd remove one chip at a time and test system stability. If you get the same panic with both chips, then I'd take it back to the store with the panic log and request a main logic board replacement for a bad graphics chipset. If one chip appears to be your culprit, request a replacement RAM chip.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EvenStranger, post: 1174611, member: 181804"] You can't very well get rid of WindowServer - that's the software that draws your interface on the screen, and is part of the OS. My guess is that it's a bad graphics chip... you're getting a page fault on CPU1, which from my experience, tends to mean a RAM failure. However, the 13" MacBook uses built-in memory for video. The logs are showing the following: Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.GeForce(6.2.6)@0xc55000->0xd0afff dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.2.6)@0x967000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0x95a000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x927000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x938000 com.apple.NVDAResman(6.2.6)@0x967000->0xc54fff dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x927000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.2)@0x95a000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x938000 So if the computer is drawing windows and moving them around (using WindowServer) and the graphics chip is bad or the RAM is bad, it'll throw an error and panic. So, for initial testing - If you feel comfortable removing the RAM, I'd remove one chip at a time and test system stability. If you get the same panic with both chips, then I'd take it back to the store with the panic log and request a main logic board replacement for a bad graphics chipset. If one chip appears to be your culprit, request a replacement RAM chip. [/QUOTE]
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