Eddie Turfboer Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Hello all, I recently setup new hardware in my computer. Since then I experience the "You need to restart your computer" message randomly. I tested this on a retail install as well as on a XxX installation. I say random, whilst there is no need for a program to be running. Whether I am working on the pc or away (non-sleep, just standing idle) it can happen. I looked into the sysem logs, but there is no registration of any issue nor kernel panic. I am not sure whether this is a hardware issue or software. See my signature for hardware information. Does anyone know what is causing it? Thanks in advance, Eddie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 boot with maxmem=2048 and see if the crashes stop. If they do, you are using one or more older drive controller kernel extensions that haven't been patched for compatibility with +2GB RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Turfboer Posted April 4, 2009 Author Share Posted April 4, 2009 Thanks, know I know what is causing it. It seems like there are three options: Use a max of 2GB of ram Switch to a 64 bits kernel Ditch IDE drives and put bios in AHCI None of these seem preferable. Is there any other solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Thanks, know I know what is causing it. It seems like there are three options: Use a max of 2GB of ram Switch to a 64 bits kernel Ditch IDE drives and put bios in AHCI None of these seem preferable. Is there any other solution? There are some community modified 64bit kexts which my fix your problem. I have an nForce chipset and had the same issue which I managed to fix by using one of these. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=127611 Before you start installing kexts I would recommend that you at least backup your extensions folder so that if you have problems or unable to reboot you can restore them in Single User Mode -s Backing up your extension folder (Kexts) mkdir /backup cp -R /System/Library/Extensions/ /backup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Turfboer Posted April 9, 2009 Author Share Posted April 9, 2009 Figured out that it was indeed fixable. See " Memory panic fix (>2 GB of memory) by slashack (127611)". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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