DP 4.6 CRASHES

andersen · Post by **andersen** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:19 pm

My dp 4.6 freezes several times a day, and is causing a lot of trouble. Sometimes the program freezes, and sometimes I have the grey curtain covering the screen telling me to restart the machine.
I am using a G5 dual engine,with OS X.
I have tried to find any comands that cause the problem, but it all seem to be random. I am pretty desperate now, and is about to give my 192 interfaces(3) and DP 4.6 software to my worst enemy.
Help....

dweiss · Post by **dweiss** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:58 pm

The grey curtain is called a Kernal panic, and it's usually hardware related and often the result of not quite up to spec ram. I would suggest removing all 3rd party ram and see if the problem goes away.

chrispick · Post by **chrispick** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:05 pm

dweiss wrote:The grey curtain is called a Kernal panic, and it's usually hardware related and often the result of not quite up to spec ram. I would suggest removing all 3rd party ram and see if the problem goes away.

It can also happen if a processor's defective. Happened to me. In any case, yeah, it's probably hardware-related (if I had to guess).

dmshep · Post by **dmshep** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:44 pm

When I had this happening frequently it indeed proved to be a bad stick of RAM. Run Hardware Test (which may or may not catch a bad stick) or experiment with swapping out the sticks one at a time.

emulatorloo · Post by **emulatorloo** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:46 pm

I had kernel panics when the internal hard drive cable went bad.

Another time it was because a stick of ram went bad.

Another time it was because the L2 cache on a processor went bad.

In other words, they were hardware issues.

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here are some websites about kernel panics:

http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html

GOOD LUCK troubleshooting. . . .

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Kubi · Post by **Kubi** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:30 pm

I've had kernel panics that were software related. Bottom line is, your problem is deeper than just DP. Time to get into some serious troubleshooting. I'm assuming you ran DiskWarrior. If not, do that first.

A few other things you can do:

- Remove all peripherals and cables except keyboard and monitor, see if that helps (if so, you could have a bad peripheral/cable/port) Swap keyboard/mouse/monitor, too. They too could be to blame.
- Start off of a fresh installed system with just DP installed and see if that helps (if so your original HD has directory issues and you need to reinstall.)
- As mentioned before, remove all but original RAM, and replace one at a time, see if that helps. (If so, you have some bad RAM.)

If nothing helps, you may indeed have a defective computer (CPU, port, etc.) and need hardware repairs. But I would tackle the easy stuff first. So far every kernel panic I've ever had was software related, so ultimately I was always able to fix myself.

Etc. Good Luck!

midiw · Post by **midiw** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:34 pm

andersen wrote:My dp 4.6 freezes several times a day, and is causing a lot of trouble. Sometimes the program freezes, and sometimes I have the grey curtain covering the screen telling me to restart the machine.
I am using a G5 dual engine,with OS X.
I have tried to find any comands that cause the problem, but it all seem to be random. I am pretty desperate now, and is about to give my 192 interfaces(3) and DP 4.6 software to my worst enemy.
Help....

Could you give us some extra clues please so that we can help you trouble shoot your problem

Which exact version of OS X are you running ?

Are you using DP 4.6 or 4.6.1 ?

Did this just start to happen ?

Have you used Apple'sDiskUtility to repair permissions ?

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