Kernel Panic

well i had my laptop sent to HP because my comp wouldn't boot after reaching a certain point where BSOD appears....

seemed that my AMD processor was the culprit for hurting my video card :(

wow BSOD acronyms still apply for mac @_@ but it doesn't look as annoying as PC windows BSOD >.>

Of course, If it's coded then it can run into problems and have errors/crash. I'm currently running windows XP, although I'm planning on experimenting with leopard and linux very soon. Windows almost never blue screens on me, maybe once in 5 or 6 months. But I do have other problems with it, like the system will not load properly after a restart and it takes one extra restart to get it working properly. I need to reinstall soon, it's been at least 3 years since I last did a windows reinstall, that's the problem.

It seems that P-chan will have a problem once every year (just one little problem), that usually ends up throwing the Blue Screen of Death on the screen.
Otherwise my P-chan is in good health! (7^o^)b

mine (windows) had none in the last year... and i keep it on 24/7.

it's all about how you treat your (windows) machine. treat it well, and it won't crash on you.

now when in comes to mac's, it's totally random.

My home Macintoshes have crashed four or five times in the last three years. Twice when playing Halo, most other times when using a web site or a third party app like Skype.

They are not crash proof though better than Windows.

My work Macintoshes crash fairly often when using Final Cut Pro. Like every few weeks.

I think a lot of the crashes are to do with network problems.

My XP kept having the blue screen when i open my PSP_video 9...

Running Vista and I've never crashed it...froze it from having waaayyyy too much open and being impatient while it loads, haha, but it's never given me the BSoD thank god. I had never seen a Mac crash but I knew it was possible! lol

Never!!

My PCs crash an average of 5 times per week.
My Macs have still never crashed but are used for simple tasks and never overloaded.

It happens a lot sometimes...
Depends on my computers mood.
It can work for a few hours then suddenly crashes...
Or it just works for a few days then happens out of the blue...

I've had the big three all crash on me(win,mac,linux). Though in the case of linux I don't think it was actually the kernel's fault. Probably just KDE/gnome(depending on which one I'm using). I would say my system across both OSs (win, linux) crashes about one every three months in some way or another(kernel or not).

My PC hardly ever crashes. I dont do that much on it - just mainly internetting, with a bit of 3d modeling on the side. No gaming or anything particularly processor-intesive.

I have had 10 Macs (laptops & desktops) that have run OS X, and have yet to see this personally. ^_^

My Vista box ALWAYS freeze when overloaded. These things never happened on linux =

A BSOD in four languages? lol.

my Hackintosh shows that screen if I choose the wrong settings/kernels LOL

first time I saw I was like" wow.....mac does have a BSOD" LOL

but now it;s just a common thing

btw, my hackintosh is very stable and only hang if I change the kernels.. LOL

I usually see that Kernel Panic screen when a Mac is overheating or has hardware compatibility issues. It may be a good excuse to upgrade your Mac to the latest if you are over taxing the machine.

Our previous mac had some problems with motherboard, we had to take it to repair shop. Finally after using it about four years it crashed several times per week and OS X reinstall didn't help at all. The new mac we got has worked fine so far.

My linux pc (fedora 8) crashes about once a month.

I updated something today(a graphics driver thing) and it sent IE into suppazmode!! The bars on sites kept flashing everytime I moved a mouse over them.... so I did a system restore and its back to normal. But vista-normal is crap anyways lol.

my laptop went into BSOD the second time i bought it
haven't touched it ever since.

my old computer on the way, used to bsod about once every three months, used to scream in exasperation when that happened while i was at work. ^^

For some reason Vista would freeze for no apparent reason on my previous computer, and there was some problems with hardware so that didn't help either. On the Linux side, I can't say I remember actually crashing anything other Firefox because of flash.

My windows hardly ever crashes anymore. Had some problems with my bios while I was configuring it for multi-booting, but managed to sort that out in the end. Now, it hasn't crashed for months

usually happens when the hardware is having conflicts for example the ram memory, try update the firmware or check in the mac forums, some ram manufacturers have problems with some mac models, in my case I'm a mac user and the kernel panic is very very weird maybe once in a year (^. ^; )

Kernel panic...........rarely happen on all of my production server....all of my linux and solaris system keep stable all the time...only my recently developed embedded system based on AMD Geode procs sometimes made some kernel panic, the processor ticks and IRQ seems unstable to me

I have Windows XP running on my SONY VAIO> and it crashed like five times last month!!

After installing Vista (currently with SP1) on my laptop it is a lot more stable. Maybe 2-4 crashes in a month or less. Also, sleep and hibernate functionality improved a lot.

wow pensaba que jamas veria eso en una mac D=

BSOD usually happens when I am doing my schoolwork.. Most of the times that happen, I didn't save my work.. I always pulled my hair out of frustration when things like that happens.. The agony.. >_<

Don't really get BSOD on my XP machine. The move to a hybrid kernel was definitely a smart one. I think a majority of windows machines crash due to driver/hardware issues. This can't be avoided because the PC is an open platform. With a closed platform, such as Apple, they can market the "never crash" message because they've tested all their options and developed against them.

I seldom experience BSOD on my system. I sometimes experience a ACPI error after start-up

It seems I'm one of those lucky b@sturds who've never experienced the blue screen of death...

Man you guys have some serious computing issues if this happens 5 times!!!

In all the years that I have been Mac, I have only ever had one Kernel Panic.

I haven't had any major problems with this computer ever since I got it. (3 years) But my old ones had BSOD all the freaking time.

No random BSOD problems with my PC ever. The only times it gave BSOD due to hardware conflicts, 3rd party applications and unstable overclockings. It's running 24/7 nice and stable :).

i'm actually suprised, my vista laptop doesn't crash as much as my XP desktop... on the other hand, my PHONE which is Windows Mobile 5, crashes like every 5 minutes... i can't wait for my phone upgrade!

comparing with my hackintosh, my vista laptop never crached/BSOD at work. so what do I deal with at work? construction, plan drawings, photoshop, and visual related stuffs. but no 3ds at the moment

my desktop o XP is also fine with no BSOD at all LOL

I had a kernel panic on my mac i think about 2 days ago! D:

Hardly ever. I'm not a gamer therefore a few of the worst computer rapists (copy protections of games) never get installed.

Wow, even the BSOD of OS X is quite pretty. O_o

my laptop had a very quick blue screen last nite (oops)

My mac's not having kernel panics period, but I have had trouble with certain programs. Dreamweaver commits suicide whenever I try to connect to a server through it, Photoshop will randomly die durring startup, and Stepmania has a weird bug where the program freezes if I unplug my speakers when the program's running. Oh,and WoW froze on me for the first time day before yesterday. But through all this, the OS itself's been stable.

Hey, miss that BSOD! Last time I saw it in our computer it was ages ago.
I have a fairly new computer(8 months) and running on Vista, though there are many unexpected phenomenon that are happening in the system, so far there's no BSOD showing up.

Lol...I got blue screen of death on the XP desktop just 25 min ago lol....what the heck really happened....

I hate error messages on Macs, they never tell you anything, so it's nearly impossible to debug.

My main desktop running Ubuntu Hardy has never Kernel paniced on me, but my XP gaming PC has in the past. That isnt to say my Ubuntu desktop is perfect, it has crashed but it doesnt usually take the whole system with it, just one particular app.

how do you prevent a mac from crashing?

Mine (windows) got BSoD last month about 4-5 times and it never happened again...

Yikes ...I can't remember the last time my macbook presented that to me ... so I'll saynever.

I get this on my Hakcintosh now and then, but it's rare. Usually when using a software that is not intel ready. I just made the switch from PPC last June.

i have a vista and it's never happened to me (had mine for about 10 months now?) Despite people saying that vista is crap and has so many bugs, I haven't had any problems with it.

My computer hasn't had one for awhile now

Not very often at all on my XP machine. I sometimes get the odd browser crash, but not a system wide lockup. What bothers me is when Windows update reboots my pc all of a sudden without notification... WTF?

I've only had my mac crash like that once. lol My Windows machine it seems to be a nightly occurance.

desktop with xubuntu - never
eeepc 701 with ubuntu - never
dell's laptop with vista - twice a week

I get kernel panics all the time on two of my linux boxes because I like to go in and butcher/customize things. Though my Ubuntu laptop gets them occasionally when coming out of sleep mode.

Any one who says that you don't get Kernel panics on *nix machines is spreading FUD.

Macs do crash, but its incredibly rare. Honestly I only get Mac kernal panic attacks about once a year. While BSOD is commonplace.

I'm running Vista Ultimate via Bootcamp on my Macbook Pro, and I use it as often as I use OS X Tiger. Tiger's crashed on me once, but Vista blue-screens me on a fairly regular basis (every three to four weeks).

I'm pretty sure it's due to the fact that, Bootcamp aside, I'm still running Windows on Mac hardware. Not to mention that I'm running the last beta version of Boot Camp, not the final packaged with Leopard.

My "new" laptop came preloaded with Vista Ultimate... people at Dell are really stupid thinking THAT would work out. First time I started it, right after pulling it out of the box, testing media center, the very first video I tried to play... BSOD.
I had a month in hell due to that. Had to reset the thing almost 10 times a day.

Dell wouldn't send me a XP because they claimed my laptop didn't have the proper drivers for XP. Bullshit. I'm using XP on it right now. And it's running 1000 times better and more smoothly than Vista.

I know there are Vista success cases, but on my laptop it was worse than ME.

I've been using XP SP2 since it's release... and NEVER got a BSOD. Seriously. Never. To the point that if I didn't read BSOD reports on blogs every now and then, I might have thought that the problem was over.

About kernel panics on Macs... I think I only heard about it once or twice. How frequent are they?

My Dell XPS 1710 laptops (2) crash about once a year (hardcore). Other than that they run strong. One is really a spare but my daily use one has run for 9 months once without any crash or even a shutdown. It did restart for updates but other than that it ran nonstop.

Last time was in February, but that was due to a bad memory card. Usually if I really push the hardware specs my iMac will go south on me.

Are you getting then that often Danny? You might want to have a look at this if you decide to troubleshoot. http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html

I can't really comment on Vista since I only use it for light work. Vista is running on a boot camp partition on my iMac. Windows XP Pro SP2 is in nirvana on my MBP. ^o^ The really problem for Windows is not having sufficient hardware resources...

Here is what a Mac OSX kernel panic looks like if you have never seen it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcNBofM1YK8

I am sending this to my friend who thinks that Macs are not subsetiable to viruses.

Looks like he is wrongo'

Ha haaa haaaaa

This has only happened to me a couple times on my old eMac...

what the hell is that? I never encounter this before

I've never had my Mac at home crash like that before. But my Mac at work crashes on occasion. If you work in a lot of graphic design programs, you tend to have crashes like this more frequently.

never, most of it depends on the user and how u treat ur computer... u take care of it, and it runs flawlessly

I've had about 3-4 BSODs ever on this laptop (running Vista). All but one were caused by a dying graphics card. I've never had a computer that crashed regularly.

Mine BSoDs rarely (XP), but when it does I can never recreate it after the restart.

I can't remember the last time I had a BSOD, must have been many years.
The only thing that still drives me crazy are drivers of boards with realtek audio.. (first ting I now look at when buying a mainboard is not having one of these f***** chips on it)

The BSOD is pretty rare on my 2-year-old Dell/XP laptop. But forget about that~ Wouldn't it make a *great* anime name? Colonel Panic! Colonel Panic! Where's Lieutenant Distress? ^_~

I can honestly say that since I am using Macs I have never had a kernel panic. My first mac was a iBook G3 running OSX 10.2.

anything electronic will have, one way or another, its own form of bsod :)

Wasn't there another sort of BSOD for the Mac but doesn't display that kind of error? sorta like a graphical glitch only. I get about one or two BSODs every two months. Most problems with the videocard really.

I have years without a Kernel Panic in my Linuxes. Sometimes an application can hang but the system keep running. One time my Linux desktop was frozen, but using the network I did SSH to restart normally.

none with Vista and only 1 or 2 with XP that I remember, and that's over 5 years at least.

using vista here... not much BSOD except for a few times during first installation. But this is mainly because of the lousy default display driver. problem solved after installing the new driver from nvidia. ;)

Most of the BSOD are related to hardware anyway...

Using Vista x64 since launch 2007 (Got a free Original DVD from Microsoft xD): Only one problem at the beginning: an Asus Beta-Bios caused a problem with 4GB Ram
Using OS 10.5.4 on my 2nd PC, works quit good only a few problems with the Graphios Card atm

I had the BSoD some 3 years ago using Windows XP. The technician working for the company my mom works at fixed it and ever since then there hasn't been another case of BSoD. Although there were some hardware failures after that because of old hardware x_x

I never had this kind of kernel error in my MacBook's lifetime (about 2 years, running Mac OS X Leopard), but I do get BSoD every few weeks on my Windows XP (running BootCamp on my MacBook)... It never really bothers me, though =/

I've never experienced kernel panic during the time I've had my macs (2 years soonish). MY old computer with Windows XP used to bluescreen me a lot though, hated it...

since I switched to vista I have never had a crash like that. To bad everything runs so much slower.

Using Lunux and XPpro, in most cases they do not crash. My XP laptop sometimes crashs when I have lots of apps open and undock from the docking station.

Never yet! ^_^ Ahhh once you go Mac, you don't go back...

On windows: less than 1 per year since leaving ME, else too many to count per day...
On mac: just got an old iMac G3, and I've put Mac Os X 10.3 on it. Never had a kernel panic.
On linux: Once or twice my whole system froze, else I've seen kernel panics when I'm doing things that would normally cause a kernel panic (rebooting after a major update on Ubuntu (Gutsy to Hardy beta) or Arch (After a fresh install), or trying to use a boot floppy to boot an unrecognized cd-rom drive)

Plenty of times my desktop went "Easter Island Face" on me while I was doing something important.

My old laptop with Win XP SP1 never really had much blue screens.
My current MacBook Pro has done it 2 or 3 times (including today) in the past 4 months ;p

dunno why but very often, wen using visual C# on win xp ;_;

I had kernel panic when I tried to add hardware where the documentation claimed it not to work with OSX. Took me like 3-4 crashes to figure out a pattern and hacked it to accept it (which then worked flawlessly).
Apart from that I only had one kernel panic. I think it was in OSX 10.2. Considering I own 4 macs (ok, only two are used on a daily basis) with OSX and that they are used for EVERYTHING then I say the OS itself is pretty stable.

That's intimidating, it looks like HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Sorry, I can let you do that, Danny" ^^;

For my BSOD, I had only one crash in a 1 Year period. As for Vista I had 4 software crashes in total, one happened when I first turned the computer on(I was pissed). Second happened after I tried to install a program, while the rest were random stupid crashes(lost so many files in the process).

Too bad OS X doesn't support -yet- local core dumps after a kernel panic. Some OSes (including even Windows) dump memory contents and other data locally if possible, so you can debug it later on.

Never had any kernel panic since I have my Power Mac G4.

I seem to be lucky. My main machine now is a packard bell windowns laptop and I only get to see a BSoD no more than 3 / 4 times a year. But, yeah, that religious belief that macs dont crash is utter bullshite

Only had to reboot my Mac once while having it.

Can't even tell you how many times seen BSOD on my Window machines. Even now on my job I have encountered it twice in the last week.

I get bosd on my pc and it does not do the memory dump.