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Kernel Panic really puts a crimp on your day
By Sparky | September 22, 2007
Nothing gets your day going like a batch of bad RAM. After a rousing morning of test driving a BMW 540i with Brien I sat down for an afternoon of writing, both for some personal projects as well as for Gear Live. Sadly I was greeted with the above kernel panic screen shortly after I sat down and the problem re-manifested itself immediately upon reboot.
Several reboots later and it was kernel panicking on boot, and wouldn’t even boot from the OS X install DVD to try and re-install the OS. A quick trip to the Apple store revealed that my RAM was bad, and worse yet since I bought 3rd party RAM rather than upgrading with the Apple RAM it would not be covered directly by Apple so I have to take the issue up with Kingston. I was immediately faced with the unpleasant thought that I would either have to spend $300 on new RAM tonight, or face n days without iChoad waiting for Kingston to RMA the old RAM, and get new RAM out to me.
Luckily my friend Mike came to the rescue and is loaning me 2Gb of RAM for iChoad for the next couple of days until I can get everything sorted out with Kingston and get replacement RAM to last the rest of iChoad’s expected life-span. Thank you Mike for saving my life on this one! I’ve got too many projects juggled in the air to lose my primary workstation!
Topics: Apple, Daily grind, Technology |