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Good Day,

I am having some problems with my system crashing. I continue to get the following message that requires a system restart:
"You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or press restart." I am also occasionally getting a high pitched tone that blocks out the playback of my song but does not stop it. This high pitched tone is present on any application that is playing sound. (iTunes or streaming web stuff....). Makes me thinking something is corrupt with my 828mkII. I reinstalled the audio driver and have repaired my permissions.
I am running DP6.01 on Dual 2 Ghz powerPC G5 w/ 3GB memory. Express XT MIDI Interface and 828MKII audio Interface.

Both of these problems started after I was "forced" to upgrade my system software to 10.4.11 after I updated iTunes. I also had to update Quick Time and I believe Safari in order to get iTunes to work.

Thank you for reading my post. I hope there is an answer out there.

-mk

That's a Kernel Panic. It can have a slew of reasons - software, hardware, etc.

Since you have this high-pitched sound issue, the first thing to try is disconnect your 828 from the computer, trash the driver, switch to system audio, and see if it gets better. If so, it's either your 828, the FW cable, the driver, or the FW port it is plugged into. Or the entire FW buss... if it persists, you either have a new problem, or a new problem in addition to the old one.

But start with this and report back. Good luck!

Hmmm... "forced".
I don't think anyone FORCED you to do anything... What's really strange is if you used "software update" then the server would have seen your OS version and there wouldn't have been any iTunes update for you! You most likely installed from disk or download (or you have a hackintosh) so this isn't anyone forcing you to do anything! It's of YOUR doings so keep that in mind when stating this...
Uninstall your hardware driver and get the "OS X 10.4.11 combo update" http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/a ... teppc.html from Apple and mount and install then reinstall driver software that MOTU recommends for your OS... repair permissions... hope this helps.