mohican Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Hi, Whenever i burn a disc, be it Toast or mac disk utility my computer stalls, and i get a grey screen, with several languages saying restart. So i have to restart. This is what it says "You need to restart your computer. Hold Down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button." When i restart I can burn one disc with no issue, however if i burn a second, the problem reoccurs. Any ideas? I am kinda getting the idea it might be where the data is stored or something. It is very odd. I am running a Gigabyte 965p, and leopard 10.5 more specs below. Hardware Overview: Model Name: Mac Model Identifier: ACPI Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.13 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 2 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D: Firmware Revision: 1.23 Interconnect: ATAPI Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive) Cache: 2000 KB Reads DVD: Yes CD-Write: -R, -RW DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds Attached thumbnail(s) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/106590-s-you-need-to-restart-your-computer-hold-down-the-power-button-for-several-seconds-or-press-the-restart-button/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
lollol Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Yeah, that's called a Kernel Panic, the equivalent of a BSOD, on a Windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/106590-s-you-need-to-restart-your-computer-hold-down-the-power-button-for-several-seconds-or-press-the-restart-button/#findComment-757222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohican Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 how do i fix it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/106590-s-you-need-to-restart-your-computer-hold-down-the-power-button-for-several-seconds-or-press-the-restart-button/#findComment-757257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleburth Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 There were many posts with similar problems... Here are som solutions which my or may not work for you: 1. Try turn off memory remapping in BIOS 2. Try to set maxmem=xxxx during boot 3. Try to set cpus=1 during boot 4. If nothing helps - try removing one of the memory banks from your MB to make it less than 4GB 5. Try all these olutions together. The first two solved my problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/106590-s-you-need-to-restart-your-computer-hold-down-the-power-button-for-several-seconds-or-press-the-restart-button/#findComment-757318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadillac Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Ahh, the ol' kernel panic. Who says Macs don't suck e-{censored}? Not knowing what else to do, I just reinstalled my installation and used Time Machine to get my stuff back. It worked for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/106590-s-you-need-to-restart-your-computer-hold-down-the-power-button-for-several-seconds-or-press-the-restart-button/#findComment-757564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucky816 Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 I am getting a kernel panic when trying to run Boot Camp on my fairly new macbook pro. It's a leopard upgrade, got the notebook right before the new OS came out. Everything is fully updated :/ and the panic occurs when the machine is making the partition forcing me to safe boot in order to fix the disk errors spawned from the botched partition. Any thoughts, or shall I just reinstall and restore from backups? I'm really wanting to get XP onto this machine and it's incredibly annoying that I'm getting the BSOD (GSOD for mac ) that I thought I had left behind when I stopped using windows. It's fitting that this problem only popped up when I decided I wanted to run a couple windows apps on my laptop Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/106590-s-you-need-to-restart-your-computer-hold-down-the-power-button-for-several-seconds-or-press-the-restart-button/#findComment-758018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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