My mac mini unexpectedly died!

Question

Hello all,
I bought a mac mini 10 days ago. It was all so nice when today I looked at the mac (I was abandoned it for about 10 minutes) and I found a strange screen, saying to restart the machine. Late I found this screen is an analog to the Windows Blue Screen Of Death. I looked in the logs and what I found:
Thu Jul 17 15:21:18 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A8CD4): Kernel trap at 0x06d2558f, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x2c6ba042, CR3: 0x00fee000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x046d2440, EBX: 0x047b3c80, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x0051f5e0
CR2: 0x2c6ba042, EBP: 0x00108ed8, ESI: 0x0053b0c0, EDI: 0x06d25589
EFL: 0x00010082, EIP: 0x06d2558f, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00003c80
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x108ca8 : 0x12b0fa (0x4592a4 0x108cdc 0x133243 0x0)
0x108cf8 : 0x1a8cd4 (0x46280c 0x6d2558f 0xd 0x461fa8)
0x108dd8 : 0x19ede5 (0x108df0 0x1 0x108ed8 0x6d2558f)
0x108de8 : 0x6d2558f (0xe 0x530048 0x100010 0x4d9b0010)
0x108ed8 : 0x199bf0 (0x374e264a 0x123b 0x3cbfd000 0x3fbc000)
0x108f28 : 0x1a7d3c (0x1 0x19f07387 0x0 0x0)
0x108f78 : 0x1af76e (0x44c1b80 0x0 0x3ee9c80 0x50)
0x108f98 : 0x447fe8 (0xde 0x44c1b80 0x3ee9780 0x50)
0x108fd8 : 0x19ef9d (0x44c1b80 0x0 0x0 0x4e8000)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbfffcf88
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Safari
Mac OS version:
9E17
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:30:53 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: Macmini2,1 (Mac-F4208EAA)
My mac mini runs Mac OS X 10.5.4 and has 2 GB RAM (it was replaced by a qualified technician at the store). Could it be the problem?
Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Hello Nick,
Thank you for your reply. I ran Apple Hardware Test (version 3A141) and it found nothing wrong. I tried to run Memtest86+ but somehow the CD (Ultimate Boot CD) did not manage to start the tests. Maybe the HFS+ is the reason, I do not know. However I ran Apple Hardware Test again and again (with thorough testing) and it seems all is OK. I did not have any devices attached to my mac except keyboard (aluminum one, wired) and a mouse (wired one). Ah I remember I had Air Port turned on and ethernet on. My embedded firewall was turned on high security too. And meanwhile I had three ssh connections with X forwarding and emacs was running. So far I did not receive any panics anymore.
Thank you again for your reply.