Tinted Screen came down like a shade - Uh oh
Working on a MacBook Pro, using word. Had iTunes open, email, firefox. Minding my own business. Then all of a sudden, a tint came down the screen from top to bottom, and it told me I had to restart in several languages. I know that's not good, but is that bad? It's my work computer, so I am only concerned in the fact that I have a lot to do and hope this won't be a constant thing. Haven't called IT yet because I need to get something done and they will take my computer. So just looking for a quick assessment.
They just upgrades me to Leopard the other day. Had no problems like that ever before.
Thanks,
dan
That's called a kernel panic. It is often caused by hardware problems, especially bad RAM. If you just got a Leopard upgrade, I'd really check your RAM. Leopard accesses parts of RAM that Tiger never touched, meaning that a bad RAM sector would have gone unnoticed under Tiger.
Download rember or memtest and let it run overnight in single user mode.
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