kaigame Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Hi all, Trying to make this system as stable as i can, but i've having occasional crashes. I have included the output from the system profiler, although it's a little large, it's mainly the default applications, and then a few extra bits and bobs. System Overview: OSX 10.5.6 - Vanilla Kernel Motherboard - Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 Rev 1.0 BIOS F11 - Installed from Jmicron Sata Controller due to RAID configuration on Intel SATA 6GB RAM Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 512MB - Darwin 512MB driver Onboard audio - Azalia driver Onboard Network - Marvel Yukon All updates applied. Apart from that, i've installed the shutdown/restart patch, and not much else. From looking at the system information provided(attached file), is there anything obvious that i could do to update or improve my OSX experience. The main issue i have at the moment is with the title City of Heroes, my machine runs this flawlessly on my Vista and Windows 7. But it hard locks the system randomly, with no error message or feedback. Any advice would be appreciated. Any ways to improve or monitor my system stability. I think it may have something to do with the dislay drivers, but i haven't got a clue as to how to update them. Thanks in advance. kenshins_965p_dq6.txt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161858-tuneup-random-crash/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
verynice Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Reboot with debug=0x100 at darwin prompt to see what cashing the crash Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161858-tuneup-random-crash/#findComment-1131525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaigame Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 Reboot with debug=0x100 at darwin prompt to see what cashing the crash Cool, apparently, the client isn't very stable anyways, so it might just be CoH causing the problem, got a possible fix which i'm trying now. i'll run that the next time it pops up and then go from there, thanks a bunch. Any stress testing utilities you could recommend? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161858-tuneup-random-crash/#findComment-1131684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verynice Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Well certainly you can try running multiple programs at the same time ie: Adobe, Vmware, Ilife Do you have over 4 gigs of ram ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161858-tuneup-random-crash/#findComment-1131708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 He has 6GB. OP: open System Profiler and click Extensions down towards the bottom. This will show all the kernel extensions presently loaded on your system. Check if you have any *ATA.kexts loaded. Then read this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127611 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161858-tuneup-random-crash/#findComment-1131939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaigame Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share Posted April 14, 2009 He has 6GB. OP: open System Profiler and click Extensions down towards the bottom. This will show all the kernel extensions presently loaded on your system. Check if you have any *ATA.kexts loaded. Then read this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=127611 I've added the jmicronata.kexts from that site, and all seems ok, haven't had a kernel panic since. Having a few seperate issues regarding graphics, but everything seems stable. Apparently Full screen antialiasing doesn't seem to work with any PC game i'm trying to run(cider or crossroads), so i need to make sure thats enabled. Thanks for the tips, will continue to test. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161858-tuneup-random-crash/#findComment-1132550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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