How often do you forumistas experience KP's? I haven't had one in probably 2 or 3 years and I just had one. I was doing nothing different than usual. I had downloaded images from a photo shoot today and just before I ejected the card my iMac went down. Same card(s) I've been using, same procedure, etc.
The only thing different I've done is to switch back to my old wired alphanumeric keyboard yesterday because I do not like the wireless kb I got with my iMac. It burns thru batteries and I like the alpha keypad. But would that cause it or was just OOTT?

My iMac has kernel panics weekly, but it has been like that since I bought it (refurb). I don't use it for work, so it is just mildly annoying. I'm pretty sure that it is caused by the Firewire drives that are connected to it. I've never had a Kernel panic on my wife's Macbook though.

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My iMac has kernel panics weekly, but it has been like that since I bought it (refurb). I don't use it for work, so it is just mildly annoying. I'm pretty sure that it is caused by the Firewire drives that are connected to it. I've never had a Kernel panic on my wife's Macbook though.

I can't remember if I've had one on my current (2010) iMac at all. The previous iMac, a late 2006 owned from 2008-2011 maybe 3 times in all that time
"Mildly annoying" can result in the need forfcomplete hard drive restores is the wrong files are being written to when it goes down.

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haven't had one on my Mac Mini 2010....

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haven't had one on my Mac Mini 2010....
Check the system logs and see what caused it.

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I've probably had 1-2 on my 2006 Mac Pro, but I can't remember any specifically. Very stable.

No kernal panics on my MacMini, purchased 4 years ago.

Three months ago I had bad ram (not Apple or OWC's ram) that KP'd both my iMac and Mac Mini - they use the same memory - I had tested the ram on both computers. Also recently had one when I tried to boot my Mac Mini from an older DiskWarrior DVD - the OS on the DiskWarrior DVD was too old. Not sure when I had one before then. LyleH

Can't remember the last time I got one. Not sure if I've had one on my Mac Pro, which I've had for 3 years. Probably had a couple on my old G5.

Had one this week, first in months. I can't remember the one before, it was last year.

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I haven't had a Kernal panic since 10.1

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My iMac has kernel panics weekly, but it has been like that since I bought it (refurb). I don't use it for work, so it is just mildly annoying. I'm pretty sure that it is caused by the Firewire drives that are connected to it. I've never had a Kernel panic on my wife's Macbook though.

I think if you've got more than 1 KP in 6 months you should probably try to figure out what you're doing wrong and if you have 'em more than once a week you damned well ought to fix that.

If you bought an Apple refurb with frequent KPs and you never brought it in for warranty service while AppleCare still applied, you screwed up.

I had one or two last May, but that was when the hard drive was in the process of failing on my 2.8 i7 iMac. Overall I think I have seen less than a dozen on all my Mac's since 10.2.

I had some KP several years ago when I had Log Me In installed on it. I removed it and KP went away. I love Log Me In and I have installed on several other Macs and I don't have any issue there. Only on that PB.

Except that series of KP, I may have had a total of a dozen or so KP in the past 10 years.

kernel or kernal?

kernel or kernal?

Kernel, kernel, kernel. As in kernels of korn.

I used to get KP a few minutes after disconnecting the mbox micro. Always.

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I think I got 1 KP on my hackintosh about 1.5 years ago...and that may be because I did something bad (like pull out a USB drive while saving something on it). If you are getting any KP, then something is (IMO) dreadfully wrong.

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The only kernels I got was due to hardware problems - remember the old iBook logic board issues? We had two iBooks with the bad logic boards and they both had KP. Otherwise, nary a problem with OS X system since just after the beta, when was that, 1999 or so? Been using X since it was available, every version up to 10.7.3, and only KP was the hardware problems.

Never had one in the 3+ years I've had this Al iMac.

Not too hard to trigger one in the old G4 dual-booting OS 9 and X.

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Frequency of kernal panics

I have had exactly two since I began using Mac OS X in March 2001. No kidding.

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But would that cause it or was just OOTT?

The most common cause of kernel panics is bad RAM. Other causes include bad peripherals and corrupt low-level software (drivers, kexts, etc.).

...each time I read one of Newt's post...

never had one in my iMac G4 (which I still own and use infrequently) but have them often in my MBP 2009 (in fact, had one just last night). I suspect the RAM is somehow going bad on that machine. it is third-party RAM.

I get one occasionally on my Mac mini - almost always when using the USB KVM switcher while typing (I share 1 keyboard/mouse among 2 computers).

Its rare, and if I stop typing/mousing for a second or two before and after switching it doesn't seem to happen.

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never had one in my iMac G4 (which I still own and use infrequently) but have them often in my MBP 2009 (in fact, had one just last night). I suspect the RAM is somehow going bad on that machine. it is third-party RAM.

My daughter was having wake from sleep issues and KPs on her 2009 MacBook Pro. We suspected RAM, so I replaced both sticks with two new OWC sticks. For a while all was fine, then the KPs got worse and the wake from sleep issues returned. After doing everything short of waving a dead chicken over it, we finally pulled the bottom stick of RAM, because we think it is the slot and not the stick, since it has done this with two different sets of RAM. The other reason I suspected the slot, was because the bottom stick was loose once when she had the Apple tech guy open it up. I really hope this cures her issues. I upped the RAM size when I ordered the OWC chips, so she at least has as much as the machine originally came with.

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Never.

Haven't had one in at least 3 years, probably longer.

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