Thanks for the Reply Mike, when my Mac crashes, it tends to just freeze up, I get a beach ball and it becomes unresponsive. Sometimes the dock will freeze but generally I will be unable to use the dock or any pull down menus. I have had the "you have to restart your computer" message once that I saw on the Kernel panic description before, the last time that happened was when I was trying to do a software update from 10.4 to 10.4.11. During that update I got a beach ball near the end of the update progress bar, I went to work and checked in on it several hours later to see if it would clear up on it's own but when I got to it the screen was black, the sleep light was on steady and the fans going full speed, it would not respond or wake from sleep. I restarted it and got a grey screen with the restart logo and a message that said "unable to find driver for this platform" I am assuming because the update was not completed that the OS was flawed at that point and unable to start up the machine perhaps? Aside from that instance, I don't get the Kernel panic message when my Mac freezes up. I haven't tried installing OSX on an external hard drive and booting up from that yet, I will give it a try to see what happens. Thanks for the help so far.
Here are the results from my EntreCheck test:
Hardware Information:
MacBook (13-inch Mid 2007)
MacBook - model: MacBook2,1
1 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information:
GMA 950 - VRAM: spdisplays_integrated_vram
System Software:
Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432) - Uptime: 0 days 9:56:32
Disk Information:
Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 disk0 : (149.05 GB)
Untitled (disk0s2) /: 148.73 GB (138.6 GB free)
USB Information:
Micron Built-in iSight
Apple Computer Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
Kernel Extensions:
Problem System Launch Daemons:
[not loaded] org.samba.winbindd.plist 3rd-Party support link
Problem System Launch Agents:
[failed] com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist 3rd-Party support link
Launch Daemons:
Launch Agents:
User Launch Agents:
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist 3rd-Party support link
User Login Items:
None
Internet Plug-ins:
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.6.3
Flash Player: Version: 10.0.23 Outdated! Update
3rd Party Preference Panes:
None
Bad Fonts:
None
Old Applications:
None
Time Machine:
Time Machine information requires OS X 10.7 "Lion" or later.
Top Processes by CPU:
2% EtreCheck
1% WindowServer
1% Activity Monitor
1% activitymonitord
0% ps
Top Processes by Memory:
205 MB Safari
33 MB mds
33 MB WindowServer
33 MB EtreCheck
20 MB SystemUIServer
Virtual Memory Information:
2.05 GB Free RAM
511 MB Active RAM
164 MB Inactive RAM
298 MB Wired RAM
131 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
