HELP! Death Screen

Timmy S · Post by **Timmy S** » Fri May 12, 2006 4:33 pm

I am in the middle of mixing a major project in DP 4.6. For the last few years of tracking and recording it has been nearly flawless. Now in the middle of mixing ( about every 15 minutes ) that macbre screen descends and hangs on a half lit screen with some forein font on it, and needs to be restarted. Also I have noticed that my mouse is intermittent and needs to be disconnected and plugged in to the usb jack to work again. I have repeaired permissions and dried disk utility to no avail. Another hardrive I have in this dual 2 Gig G5 died recently and I removed it, don't know if that's releated.
Any advice or suggestion to try would be much appreciated. I have tried many different files and it happens in all of them.

thanks,
Tim

chrispick · Post by **chrispick** » Fri May 12, 2006 4:42 pm

Hmm, I wonder if it's a motherboard thing, given the USB problem. It definitely sounds like a hardware issue of some kind. Death screens usually mean that (with defective RAM being the most likely culprit, though perhaps not in your case).

Can you get a copy of Tech Tools and run a diagnostic? Might give you some insight.

In the meantime, do backup everything you can.

ramadev · Post by **ramadev** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:08 pm

Hey Timmy S, check your email

from "he who named the E'sphere"

billf · Post by **billf** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:24 pm

Timmy S wrote:I am in the middle of mixing a major project in DP 4.6. For the last few years of tracking and recording it has been nearly flawless. Now in the middle of mixing ( about every 15 minutes ) that macbre screen descends and hangs on a half lit screen with some forein font on it, and needs to be restarted. Also I have noticed that my mouse is intermittent and needs to be disconnected and plugged in to the usb jack to work again. I have repeaired permissions and dried disk utility to no avail. Another hardrive I have in this dual 2 Gig G5 died recently and I removed it, don't know if that's releated.
Any advice or suggestion to try would be much appreciated. I have tried many different files and it happens in all of them.

thanks,
Tim

Sounds like a kernel panic, which are often related to bad RAM (not always, but a lot on OSX which is fussy about the RAM quality).

Does it look like this?

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227

Timmy S · Post by **Timmy S** » Fri May 12, 2006 5:39 pm

yes it looks just like that.

Thanks for the replies.

T

Timmy S · Post by **Timmy S** » Sat May 13, 2006 8:45 am

I have noticed that it seems to only happen in DP and not other Apps.

ramadev · Post by **ramadev** » Sat May 13, 2006 8:57 am

If that multi-language screen is indicative of a hardware problem and it only happens in DP, then maybe it's the A/D/A interface.

Call me at home; I'll loan you one of my interfaces if you want to test that.

You still have my number, right? (I can't find yours right now.)

Kubi · Post by **Kubi** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:42 am

Just FYI, kernel panics are not always caused by hardware problems, though they can be. But they can be software-related as well.

(They were for me some 18 months ago. A complete reformat and fresh install of the startup drive fixed my problems completely.)

Good luck!

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