(There’s a musical reference in that title…)

Since I’ve been writing about Apple products so much, I might as well give you the not so hot news. Or in this case let you know that I don’t allow MacBook Pros on my couch as they get *hot*.

While a few of my readers are happy MacBook Pro owners, one particular MacBook Pro I know of has been experiencing kernel panics at the rate of one or two a day. At first the thought was that perhaps running Parallels with Windows XP was causing the kernel panics, but then they started occurring when the MacBook Pro was in normal use… which is worrying at best.

Anyway, the MacBook Pro kernel panic log messages seem to reference the APIC controller and in my A+ Certified experience seems to mean that there’s something hardware related.

Has anyone else seen anything similar?

Update: There’s a log of the most recent panic contained in the full post.

Update 2 06/07/2006: At this time, it seems like the panics were caused by bad third party RAM.

Technorati Tags: Apple, MacBook Pro, hardware

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0×107e6c : 0×1343b7 (0×3583a30 0×360fb80 0×107e9c 0×3583a30)
0×107ecc : 0×134cc6 (0×3583a30 0×2 0×107f0c 0×4a2720)
0×107eec : 0×13fa02 (0×3583a30 0×0 0×107f1c 0×2)
0×107f2c : 0×38c7e0 (0×4a2720 0×389d3dc 0×0 0×3557620)
0×107f4c : 0×6ab5b2 (0×389d3c0 0×0 0×35c6080 0×0)
0×107f7c : 0×6ab673 (0×355e800 0×0 0×354e000 0×51)
0×107f9c : 0×61dc01 (0×355e800 0×0 0×354e000 0×51)
0×107fbc : 0×3ac62e (0×355cc00 0×0 0×355cb00 0×51)
0×107fec : 0×197c3e (0×51 0×24d6be98 0×24d6be98 0×2000007f)
0×24d6bf44 : 0×199021 (0×0 0×0 0xbffff158 0×216)

Backtrace continues…
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC(1.1.0)@0×6aa000
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform(1.0.3)@0×61c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.0)@0×565000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.2.0)@0×618000

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.1: Tue Mar 7 16:55:45 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.9.22.obj~1/RELEASE_I386
panic(cpu 0 caller 0×0019C437): Panic double fault (CPU:0, code:0×8, trace_trap:0×0),registers:
CR0: 0×8001003b, CR2: 0×0010f344, CR3: 0×00d5c000, CR4: 0×000006e0
EAX: 0×00000000, EBX: 0×00000003, ECX: 0×00000003, EDX: 0×00000000
ESP: 0×0010f348, EBP: 0×00107e6c, ESI: 0×03583a30, EDI: 0×00000000
EFL: 0×00010046, EIP: 0×03583b5c
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0×425efc : 0×128b5e (0×3bbeb8 0×425f20 0×131bbc 0×0)
0×425f3c : 0×19c437 (0×3c1194 0×0 0×8 0×0)
0×425fec : 0×1983fb (0×8 0×0 0×0 0xd62000) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0×0

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.1: Tue Mar 7 16:55:45 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.9.22.obj~1/RELEASE_I386

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