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Carl Sieber Author

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5 points

Kernel panics on Mountain Lion are normal?

I made the mistake of upgrading my Mac Pro to Mountain Lion. Since then, I've been plagued by several nasty issues. They are:

4 to 5 kernel panics per day now on average. In the previous 4 years of owning this machine, I'd only seen one total before Mountain Lion.
Preferences are not being retained when saved. This is especially maddening in Mail where I have to correct a mail setting every single time it launches (or restarts from a hard freeze/kernel panic)
Whenever a kernel panic happens, the contents of my two monitors are swapped. What is supposed to display on the left display jumps to the right display and the contents of the right display move to the left display. This includes menubar, desktop images and my geektool scripts.
While not technically a bug, I feel completely mislead by Apple regarding Airplay capabilities. I upgraded solely for this one feature only to learn that my 8-core, 12Gb of RAM, Dual Video Cards and SSD Raid is not sufficient to utilize this feature. This is incredibly dishonest marketing on Apple's part.

Any suggestions on how to proceed? I'm leaning towards reverting back to Lion and askin

Posted on Aug 10, 2012 1:05 PM

156 replies

Dec 29, 2013 3:21 AM in response to Carl Sieber

Its happening intermidiate From bootable good known mavericks os also From tha starting

Plz help me about this

Barney-15E

Level 10

117,214 points

Dec 29, 2013 6:52 AM in response to Pradeepswain

Pradeepswain wrote:

Its happening intermidiate From bootable good known mavericks os also From tha starting

Plz help me about this

My guess would be bad RAM.

Dec 30, 2013 9:06 PM in response to Barney-15E

There is thirdparty Ram also Transcend 4 DDR1333

2X2 GB Ram Of Apple

I Tried with Transcend Ram Its not Happening But When I Tried With Apple and Non Apple Ram Its Happening

Plz Replay ME as soon as Possible.

Barney-15E

Level 10

117,214 points

Dec 30, 2013 9:20 PM in response to Pradeepswain

If it is working with own set of RAM, but not others I would suggest you found the cause.

You can test the RAM with Rember: http://www.kelleycomputing.net/Rember/

Barney-15E

Level 10

117,214 points

Dec 30, 2013 9:23 PM in response to Pradeepswain

EveryMac.com has information about where to purchase quality RAM in different parts of the World.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i3-3.06-21-inch-alumi num-mid-2010-specs.html

See the Memory section of that page.

Nov 3, 2014 10:05 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

are they still doing the free replacement of these gpu's , logic boards???? because I am getting completely sick of this,,, about ready to switch to windows.. (yes, i know it's like shooting myself in the gonads and the foot.,,, but apple is ******* me off)

i am getting all those previously mentioned and about thirty others that aren't,, did a diagnostic.. :

4MOT/4/40000002 Right Side: 4296 reran and got -3690 again: 3717 again 3511 ..

sounds like the gnu and the mofo board,,,,

time to switch to windows machines, if does not replace / fix this problem for free

Kernel panics on Mountain Lion are normal?