Panther 10.3.2 crashes

DougX · 03-11-2004, 09:21 AM

I am at the end of my rope on this one.

I have a new PowerMac Dual 2Ghz G5 with Panther 10.3.2.

This machine has crashed consistantly but more so when running Photoshop CS than with anyother application. The last thing I got from the Adobe crash log had:

com.apple.vecLib 3.0.1

I have run a hardware test with no problems noted.
I have run a repair disk permissions and repair disk, all is good.
Changed out the RAM which kept it from crashing for a while but still crashing.

I have looked at the crash logs and system logs, nothing seems to point to anything. The only thing I have not done is a reinstall.

hayne · 03-11-2004, 11:27 AM

Is it the machine that is crashing (i.e. kernel panics) or just one application (PhotoShop) that is crashing?

If you had a problem with RAM before, it seems not unlikely that the problem is still related to bad RAM. You might try running a RAM testere like 'memtest'. (Search - I think it has been mentioned a few times on these forums.)

Of course you should also run through the "troubleshooting" steps suggested in the relatively recent article of that name on the main macosxhints site. In particular, see if the problem persists if you log in as a different user.

trevor · 03-11-2004, 11:35 AM

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Trevor

KirkM · 03-11-2004, 05:48 PM

I also have a dual 2GHz G5. I've only had it for three weeks today, and it's frozen up more times than I can count. It's happened in PS7, Safari, just about everything. From everything I've read, I doubt it's CS causing your problem. Check out the discussions at Apple. It's filled with unhappy G5 owners. Apparently Apple won't acknowledge this problem yet.

G5 Freezes

DougX · 03-12-2004, 08:20 AM

I happen to have an Apple store in my area so, after taking Apple's and my reseller's advice I took it in. They are suspecting a faultly logic board or processor, which is what I have been suspecting as well. After looking at the logs, I noticed was getting a lot of kernal panics on CPU 1. It shipped with 2 256 MB sticks of memory and my reseller added 2 more after market 512 MB sticks. I noticed it didn't crash as much with just the after market memory in which I am suspecting is becuase the processor doesn't have to make as many trips to the memory since they are both twice the size of the originals. Unfortunately I won't have it back until next week sometime.

It's still better than running windows.

03-11-2004, 09:21 AM	#1
DougX Prospect Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Raleigh NC Posts: 20	Panther 10.3.2 crashes I am at the end of my rope on this one. I have a new PowerMac Dual 2Ghz G5 with Panther 10.3.2. This machine has crashed consistantly but more so when running Photoshop CS than with anyother application. The last thing I got from the Adobe crash log had: com.apple.vecLib 3.0.1 I have run a hardware test with no problems noted. I have run a repair disk permissions and repair disk, all is good. Changed out the RAM which kept it from crashing for a while but still crashing. I have looked at the crash logs and system logs, nothing seems to point to anything. The only thing I have not done is a reinstall.

03-11-2004, 11:35 AM	#3
trevor Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Boulder, CO USA Posts: 19,854	Memtester page Trevor __________________ How to ask questions the smart way \| Pssst. Wanna play some FuMafia?

03-11-2004, 05:48 PM	#4
KirkM Prospect Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 22	I also have a dual 2GHz G5. I've only had it for three weeks today, and it's frozen up more times than I can count. It's happened in PS7, Safari, just about everything. From everything I've read, I doubt it's CS causing your problem. Check out the discussions at Apple. It's filled with unhappy G5 owners. Apparently Apple won't acknowledge this problem yet. G5 Freezes __________________ 27" iMac 2.8GHz i7 \| MacBook 2.0 Ghz \| iBook G3 600Mhz \| 10.6.5

03-11-2004, 11:27 AM	#2
hayne Site Admin Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Montreal Posts: 32,473	Is it the machine that is crashing (i.e. kernel panics) or just one application (PhotoShop) that is crashing? If you had a problem with RAM before, it seems not unlikely that the problem is still related to bad RAM. You might try running a RAM testere like 'memtest'. (Search - I think it has been mentioned a few times on these forums.) Of course you should also run through the "troubleshooting" steps suggested in the relatively recent article of that name on the main macosxhints site. In particular, see if the problem persists if you log in as a different user.

03-12-2004, 08:20 AM	#5
DougX Prospect Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Raleigh NC Posts: 20	I happen to have an Apple store in my area so, after taking Apple's and my reseller's advice I took it in. They are suspecting a faultly logic board or processor, which is what I have been suspecting as well. After looking at the logs, I noticed was getting a lot of kernal panics on CPU 1. It shipped with 2 256 MB sticks of memory and my reseller added 2 more after market 512 MB sticks. I noticed it didn't crash as much with just the after market memory in which I am suspecting is becuase the processor doesn't have to make as many trips to the memory since they are both twice the size of the originals. Unfortunately I won't have it back until next week sometime. It's still better than running windows.