Kernel panics on Mountain Lion are normal?

If youy had lion legally then it;s in your downlaods que in the app store! if it's not call apple and they will put it there for you to download and you can reistall. That's what I did and not a problem since

Just to throw this into the mix, I'm getting clusters of kernel panics on 10.8.2 on a 27" iMac (12,2) with an AMD Radeon HD 6970. Several reinstalls of the OS, clean installs, resets, etc. It may settle for a day or so, and then a cluster of KPs in a row. Messy business.

One more here: Macbook Pro 8,2

Hey there,

I'm on a MacBook Pro3,1 and had persistent kernel panics since ML update. Suspects were the Nvidia bug which my machine is known for, several third party stuff including parallels, hardware issues, and so on.

Crashes went on even after a clean install on a formatted disk.

Updating Nvidia cuda drivers here:

http://www.nvidia.de/object/cuda-mac-driver-de.html

seems to do the trick for me.

Did not have crashes since I installed this.

Hope it helps at least a few people.

regards,

hoffMan

Ok,

forget it! Next kernel panic 5 minutes ago. ran in 3 KPs trying to start up again...

that's it for me. Goodbye ML, going back to Lion.

regards, hoffMan

Hi HoffMan (and anyone else with the same problem).

I took all the steps you did to try to fix this problem and tried updating my Nvidia drivers, but they would not install on my machine. Took my macbook to the Apple Store to run a diagnostic and it came up with a hardware failure on the graphic card. My macbook is 2 years old and I don't have Apple Care so its out of warranty. However, they informed me there's a "known" problem with some Nvidia graphics cards that shipped with my machine and if less than 4 years old Nvidia cover the cost of replacement - in my case they replaced the whole logic board. I have been running without problems for a week since. I would suggest you try this before downgrading as you may have problems with it in the future.

Hope that helps.

regards,

MD

Yep, having kernel panics with my 2011 27" 6970M iMac. My first iMac and not the experience I was hoping for.

Cmmts wrote:

Yep, having kernel panics with my 2011 27" 6970M iMac. My first iMac and not the experience I was hoping for.

Kernel panics are almost always caused by hardware issues: Ram, display card, hard drive, logic board.

You should have your machine looked up by an authorized technician.

The previous owner didn't have any issues and neither did I while I was using Lion.

Kernel panics are NOT normal - they are always a symptom of something wrong.

Millions of Mountain Lion users are NOT experiencing them, so it is still more likely that it is something with your machine - it could be software related.

But it could also be some hardware component that simply went bad - RAM being the most likely. If you can, run a hardware test (restart and immediately hold the D key). There are also third party utilities that can test your ram. Look up the web for "memtest".

Nothing on the hardware-test either. BTW, my Macbook Air had the similar issue until 10.8.1. Kernel panics can absolutely be related to software.

@luis

The reporters of this problem all had working machines before the software upgrade. This incriminates a software driver error as the most likely problem. Unless all these people are having identical hardware failiures at exactly the same time, I don't think the memory diagnostics will be helpful.

I can totally understand your frustrations, as I have had simialar issues! What is even more annoying is after getting a supposedily genuinly concearned phone call from AppleCare Customer Services, I was told that I would recieve a follow up call and if I had any queries too email the customer rep. After weeks of not hearing back from the customer reps I emailed the rep and after 4months and guess what no reply. Even calling Applecare they tried contacting the rep. I guess Apple's new attitude since Steve is no longer around is we will take your money employ incompetant software engineers and basically "who gives a rats a?? about the customer" as it sure certainly seems that way no matter how you look at things... Thanks Apple and Apple Care for caring NOT!

My iMac i7 27 inch was running fine on Lion, well, almost. I had to call tech support once about kernalP crashes and they kind of fixed it using Disk Utility. That said, as soon as I installed Mountain Lion, the KernalP crashes began coming fast and furious. I did a clean install of ML and within 1/2 an hour another KP crash occurred, so I took the machine back to the store. There were two other customers clutching their iMacs saying the same thing had happened to them. What the **** is going on with Apple that when you buy a new iMac with their latest software and you can't even rely on it for more than a few months, especially considering that the previous model ran flawlessly for 2 years on Leopard and Snow Leapard?