Freezing when Ethernet cable is connected
Hi,
In the last few weeks I've been contracting at a couple of different agencies and have had their ethernet cables plugged into my Mac. At the first agency, my mac froze every day and then restarted itself (after about 10 seconds) about 4 times each day. The weird thing was that it froze and restarted just before or just after 11am each day. Upon restarting itself after a freeze, I would receive a kernel panic and have to restart again. About 10 minutes later, another crash. After about 11:45am till 6pm when I finished it was fine and I wouldn't experience another crash.
Initially I thought it was something wrong with the OS so I did a clean install of OS X that night but then the next day the crashes resumed. I have never experienced a crash at home (I'm on the wireless) and if I use the wireless at the agency it's fine (however I am forced to use the ethernet to access the secure networks).
Have just started working at another agency this morning and the same thing has happened. My macbook pro has just frozen at 10:23am with the ethernet cable plugged in however it did not restart this time automatically so I had to reboot it. I also did not receive a kernel panic upon restarting and everything seems fine so far.
Have checked the console logs each time but there are no significant messages at the time of freezing.
Any ideas?
In the last few weeks I've been contracting at a couple of different agencies and have had their ethernet cables plugged into my Mac. At the first agency, my mac froze every day and then restarted itself (after about 10 seconds) about 4 times each day. The weird thing was that it froze and restarted just before or just after 11am each day. Upon restarting itself after a freeze, I would receive a kernel panic and have to restart again. About 10 minutes later, another crash. After about 11:45am till 6pm when I finished it was fine and I wouldn't experience another crash.
Initially I thought it was something wrong with the OS so I did a clean install of OS X that night but then the next day the crashes resumed. I have never experienced a crash at home (I'm on the wireless) and if I use the wireless at the agency it's fine (however I am forced to use the ethernet to access the secure networks).
Have just started working at another agency this morning and the same thing has happened. My macbook pro has just frozen at 10:23am with the ethernet cable plugged in however it did not restart this time automatically so I had to reboot it. I also did not receive a kernel panic upon restarting and everything seems fine so far.
Have checked the console logs each time but there are no significant messages at the time of freezing.
Any ideas?
Macbook Pro 17", Mac OS X (10.5.6), 4GB ram, 160gb 7200rpm HDD
