Macbook freezes up with a black box in the middle of the screen.

My Macbook freezes up with a black box in the middle of the screen. Inside the black box is a message to power down and then re power up.
The Mac does re-start, but freezes up again after a while.
Does anybody know how to get rid of this problem?

Hi Steven,
That is known as a kernel panic. They can be caused by many things. The "treatment" is to go through the steps listed here and try them out:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html

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