Random Crashing

[Nathan12]

I've installed 8F1111 with Wesley's patch and Maxxuss' 8F1111A patch on my Dell Dimension 4550 with a NVidia FX5600 Ultra. There are a couple problems, but mainly affecting usability is random crashing. Using the Finder seems to aggravate things, but other applications such as Office do too. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the log of the crash:

 

Thread 0 Crashed:

0 com.apple.framework.IOKit 0x906f9066 patchVTable + 808

1 com.apple.framework.IOKit 0x906f9886 kld_file_patch_OSObjects + 160

2 com.apple.framework.IOKit 0x906faca5 __kload_load_modules + 147

3 com.apple.framework.IOKit 0x906fc3fa kload_load_dgraph + 957

4 com.apple.framework.IOKit 0x906e9b0c _KXKextManagerLoadKextUsingOptions + 1230

5 kextcache 0x0000689c 0x1000 + 22684

6 kextcache 0x00004217 0x1000 + 12823

7 kextcache 0x00001896 0x1000 + 2198

8 kextcache 0x000017b1 0x1000 + 1969

 

Thread 0 crashed with i386 Thread State:

eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x906f8d4f ecx:0x000003ff edx: 0x03cb0aa4

edi: 0x01149af0 esi: 0x039c22ac ebp:0xbfffe6d8 esp: 0xbfffe640

ss: 0x0000002f efl: 0x00010293 eip:0x906f9066 cs: 0x00000027

ds: 0x0000002f es: 0x0000002f fs:0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037

 

Binary Images Description:

0x1000 - 0xafff kextcache /usr/sbin/kextcache

0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe4bfff dyld 44.14 /usr/lib/dyld

0x90000000 - 0x90175fff libSystem.B.dylib /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

0x90281000 - 0x9034bfff com.apple.CoreFoundation 6.4.4 (368.24) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation

0x906c7000 - 0x90738fff com.apple.framework.IOKit 1.4.1 (???) /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit

0x908d4000 - 0x90954fff libobjc.A.dylib /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib

0x90e43000 - 0x90e6bfff com.apple.SystemConfiguration 1.8.5 /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfiguration

0x94d66000 - 0x94e5afff libicucore.A.dylib /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib

0x9515d000 - 0x9516ffff libauto.dylib /usr/lib/libauto.dylib

0x9599c000 - 0x9599efff libmathCommon.A.dylib /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib

0x9d4ba000 - 0x9d51efff libstdc++.6.dylib /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib

0x9ded0000 - 0x9ded7fff libgcc_s.1.dylib /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib

0x9ed53000 - 0x9ed61fff libz.1.dylib /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib

 

Also, if anyone knows why my 128MB video card is being listed in the System Profile as a 256MB card I would appreciate that too. I think they may be related, but I don't know enough about this to be sure.

 

Thanks,

Nathan

[Nathan12]

I apologize, I apparently didn't get everything copied over. There was more information at the top of the log that I didn't copy. I'm at work now so I can't get it verbatim, but the general cause was:

 

EXC-BAD-ADDRESS

 

followed by a hex number. Based on my experience, if I'm reading it correctly it was trying to access a memory location that is shouldn't. I'm guessing it was trying to access VRAM not available with the 256 showing but only having 128, or bad memory?

 

I remember Apple has always been more specific and less tolerant to bad RAM than other OS's, but this is the original 512 stick from Dell, and I've never had a problem with it, if this is the case. Linux/Windows has always just run with it fine.

 

I did try the beta Nvidia drivers but that caused a dual-monitor situation on one monitor, similary to dual workspaces in Linux. However, the monitor wouldn't re-draw when switching which left major desktop errors and I couldn't live with that. However, the drivers did allow me to switch resolutions, and did show the correct RAM. I didn't have a crash during this time either.

 

Any advice from the wizards here?

 

Thanks!

[thesog]

I'd suggest trying 10.4.4 as lots of improvements were made between 10.4.3 and 10.4.4. Other thing you may try is to flush/rebuild your kext cache and run repair permissions for good measure.

[Nathan12]

OK, I think it's fixed. How? I downloaded the 10.4.5 iso, and now my system is more stable, and faster.

 

You guys rock!