Gray "restart" box.

Hi,
I have an imac G5 17" 1.8 GHz. When I got up today a loud fan noise was blaring and a blank, light blue screen was fixed in place. I restarted and eventually got a normal startup mode. Then any applications I opened started crashing again and again. A gray box then came up in the middle of the screen with at least 5 different languages on it saying "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press the restart button." If I just let it sit there, the loud fan mode/blue screen comes back again.
I installed 2GD of SDRAM not too long ago, but I doubt that's the problem..

RAM is in fact, often the cause of a kernel panic. I suggest you remove the new RAM and see if things clear up.

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I have a 2007 Macbookpro and it started up with gray checkered boxes ann across the screen I tried to re load OSX and it work 1 day and started again is this a hard drive problem or Video? Now as it starts to load a screen comes up saying to restart

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I'd suspect this known issue:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377
if you have a late 2007 MBP.
The only testing you can do at home is to attach an external monitor and see if the defects repeat on the external. If so, get to an Apple store. If the computer's video chipset fails a test the Apple Store will perform, you get a free logic board replacement. Turnaround is usually one day to one week--not bad at all.
If the defects do NOT repeat on an external monitor, then the problem is not covered by the above Repair Extension Program
The issue is heat-triggered. Be certain that you control heat once you get it fixed. Don't use the computer in your lap without a lapboard; don't block the vents under the display hinge; don't us in clamshell mode, etc.

Gray error box to shut down

I'm getting a gray error box that I've never seen before that states "turn off computer immediately by holding in the power button". Has anyone experienced this? I shut my machine down and restarted. The window popped up again. I'm not sure if this is an application error or something else.

chrabeneck,
"Peripherals: printer and iPod dock..."
Have these always been connected?
When you disconnected them as advised, did the KPs stop?
"...I added an airport extreme card..."
Have you checked it to see if it is still seated properly?
"I'd feel better having a solid back up before more testing."
Have you created that yet?
"...repair disk, I did not attempt this as I have ordered a backup hard drive and it's not here yet."
Running Repair Disk is the first step when when troubleshooting Kernel Panics, as it should not jeopardize your data.
But I understand your caution!
"80GB hard drive; 13.96 GB available"
You may be running to close to a safe parameter of available free space.
Insufficient available space, can cause performance issues, system corruption, and possible loss of data.
Depending on Mac system usage habits, it is a general recommendation, to keep 10% to as much as 20%, of the Total capacity, available at all times.
Review the suggestions, in the documents that I have linked to below.
Authored by Dr Smoke:
Problems From Insufficient RAM And Free Hard Disk Space
Freeing Space On Your Mac OS X Startup Disk
Have you ever run any routine Maintenance procedures, as suggested in the articles linked to below?
Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: System Maintenance, authored by Gulliver
Maintaining Mac OS X, authored by Dr Smoke
Is the Mac shutdown overnight, or does it run 24/7?
If you turn the Mac off nightly, the Background Maintenance Tasks, are never run.
These can also be run, using a Third-Party utility, or manually using Terminal, to run the CRON Commands.
I use MacJanitor, when necessary.
INSTRUCTIONS TO RUN CRON MANUAL COMMANDS
Quit all applications/programs.
Navigate to HD > Applications > Utilities.
Double click on Terminal, to open.
At the prompt, type:
sudo periodic daily
Press Return.
Enter your Admin password when prompted, then press Return.
This will execute the daily script that is sheduled to run every night.
When completed, repeat this procedure, but change the command to:
sudo periodic weekly
This one rebuilds a database or two, and usually takes somewhat longer to complete. It is scheduled to run once a week.
Repeat again, with command:
sudo periodic monthly
Or they can all be run in one pass, which is preferable, with this command:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
When the tasks complete, and return to the prompt, you may quit Terminal.
Restart the Mac, and run Repair Permissions.
TO REPAIR PERMISSIONS ON THE STARTUP DISK
1.Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities, and select the startup disk in the left column.
2.Click First Aid.
3.Click Verify Disk Permissions to test permissions or Repair Disk Permissions to test and repair permissions. (I never "Verify". Just run "Repair".)
Rerun RP, until the only messages reported, are listed here Spurious Permissions Errors Using: 10.3.x, authored by Michael Conniff.
When "Repair Permissions" is complete. Quit "Disk Utility".
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I am new to Numbers, moving from Excel. For some reason when I print my sheet/table (only one page) whether from print view or not, the gray formatting box is visible (in preview) and is then printed. How do I get rid of it?

what do you mean by formatting box? Do you mean the grid lines? Remember that Numbers is true Wisywig. Meaning that what you see is what your going to get. So if you see grids when the table is not selected, your going to see them when it prints. You will want to select your grids and set them to none.
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Hope this helps you.
Jason

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Onyx is basically the same as running fsck in a nice little app.
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hi,
I recently started having several issues with applications unexpectedly quitting. There doesn't seem to be any particular pattern, just random crashes. Anything from Finder to AppleWorks to Adobe Acrobat Reader and Final Cut Pro. My computer also came up with the scary gray "you must restart your computer" screen 3 times this afternoon.
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2008-11-11 20:09:02.582 Backup Engine 3[205] MaxBack Engine MaxBackEngineController-- MoreSecCopyHelperToolURLAndCheckBundled #1
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launchd[92]: com.seagate.notificationexec.plist: 7 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
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/Applications/
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/Users/YourName/Library/Application Support/
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences
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A few programs may set login items to start automatically when your computer starts or a specific user logs in. These items are located in: /Library/StartupItems/ or /Users/YourName/Library/StartupItems/ To edit these, go to your account set up in System Preferences, login items tab, select the item(s) and a "-" to remove.
More involved programs (e.g., Office) may install bits and pieces all over the place, like fonts, libraries, etc. The software installer may have an uninstall option, or there may be a separate uninstaller for these. In bad situations you have to hunt around yourself.
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Check out the utility [AppDelete|www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/appdelete.html]. It will remove simple applications and most of their associated files.
[X Lab FAQ: Uninstalling applications|http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/uninstallingapps.html]

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Hi all,
It's been a while since I last had an issue. Hopefully I can resolve this with your help.
I've got this iBook G4 (1.33 GHz PPC; 1 GB RAM; HD not full) that's been solid and steady for a couple years, and recently these last 2 days, I've gotten the dreaded freeze acompanied by the grey screen and box in several languages telling me to restart the computer several times. There's no pattern to when it might freeze, but it's happened about 7 times yesterday and a handful today. But never before that.
I've done some searching thru the discussions, and found some related issues, but I'm not totally sure they are the same as mine.
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I've found these:
shimming: http://www.coreyarnold.org/ibook/
kenel panic: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
Does anyone else have suggestions?
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Oh - here is my panic log, in case it makes sense to someone out there and can help:
panic.log:
Description: Panic (system crashes) log
Size: 3.66 KB
Last Modified: 11/27/07 3:12 PM
Location: /Library/Logs/panic.log
Recent Contents: Tue Nov 27 14:26:26 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000A8A00): Uncorrectable machine check: pc = 000000000072B9D8, msr = 0000000000149030, dsisr = 40000000, dar = 000000002193C040
AsyncSrc = 0000000000000000, CoreFIR = 0000000000000000
L2FIR = 0000000000000000, BusFir = 0000000000000000
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x000952D8 0x000957F0 0x00026898 0x000A8A00 0x000A7C90 0x000AB980
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x3A9DCC80)
PC=0x0072B9D8; MSR=0x00149030; DAR=0x2193C040; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0072D6F4; R1=0x17A73CC0; XCP=0x00000008 (0x200 - Machine check)
Backtrace:
0x01E26B00 0x0072D6F4 0x00742094 0x002D130C 0x002D01D4 0x000A9514
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.AppleAirPort2(405.1)@0x703000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.0)@0x630000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x469000
Exception state (sv=0x31FEE500)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.0: Wed May 23 16:50:59 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.21.3~1/RELEASE_PPC
Tue Nov 27 15:02:02 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000A8A00): Uncorrectable machine check: pc = 000000000072D52C, msr = 0000000000149030, dsisr = 42000000, dar = 00000000000FE014
AsyncSrc = 0000000000000000, CoreFIR = 0000000000000000
L2FIR = 0000000000000000, BusFir = 0000000000000000
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x000952D8 0x000957F0 0x00026898 0x000A8A00 0x000A7C90 0x000AB980
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x3A7AE280)
PC=0x0072D52C; MSR=0x00149030; DAR=0x000FE014; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x00742078; R1=0x17743D30; XCP=0x00000008 (0x200 - Machine check)
Backtrace:
0x00000000 0x00742078 0x002D130C 0x002D01D4 0x000A9514
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.AppleAirPort2(405.1)@0x703000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.0)@0x630000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x469000
Exception state (sv=0x31EE2000)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.0: Wed May 23 16:50:59 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.21.3~1/RELEASE_PPC
Tue Nov 27 15:12:54 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000A8A00): Uncorrectable machine check: pc = 000000000072D52C, msr = 0000000000149030, dsisr = 42000000, dar = 0000000005E08000
AsyncSrc = 0000000000000000, CoreFIR = 0000000000000000
L2FIR = 0000000000000000, BusFir = 0000000000000000
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x000952D8 0x000957F0 0x00026898 0x000A8A00 0x000A7C90 0x000AB980
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x31F71000)
PC=0x0072D52C; MSR=0x00149030; DAR=0x05E08000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x00742078; R1=0x178C3D30; XCP=0x00000008 (0x200 - Machine check)
Backtrace:
0x0027CDD4 0x00742078 0x002D130C 0x002D01D4 0x000A9514
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.AppleAirPort2(405.1)@0x703000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.0)@0x630000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x469000
Exception state (sv=0x31F18C80)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.0: Wed May 23 16:50:59 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.21.3~1/RELEASE_PPC

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Dies
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For the last few months, I've been having issues where the display would just suddenly DIE. It'd go black, and if I closed the laptop and let it go to sleep and reopened it, it'd come back just fine. Is that related to the current issue?
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We don't have any idea what they are without some more information from you. If they are apps, then the names of the apps should be under the grey icons. Are there any names under the icons? What do the icons look like? Can you post a screenshot?
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