"You Need to Restart Your Computer."

[Acidrain9]

i keep getting a gray screen that says "You Need to Restart Your Computer." over my desktop. it actually doesn't happen all the time, but i have noticed that it happends when i launch Maya or when i launch the Blizzard Downloader for WoW. Maya was working fine about a week ago and WoW worked beautifully on 10.5.1. Anyone have any ideas on how i can find what is causing the error? i am not sure but i think it may have started after the itunes/quicktime update. not sure though. any help is appreciated.

EDIT: After a complete reinstall i tried downloading WoW again...i get the same error as above. Anybody have ANY ideas?

My Specs: (all drivers installed from Zeph DVD)
Zeph 10.5.2 Rev.1 ToH 9.1.0
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4800+ Socket AM2
MSI K9N SLI Platinum nForce570
4 x Corsair XMS2 1Gb DDR2 800Mhz
Integrated Audio ALC 883
StarTech 10/100 Ethernet PCI
eVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-e QE/CI
Dell LCD Monitor 22'' 1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
HD SATA Maxtor 250GB (WinXP)
HD SATA Maxtor 500GB (OSx86)

[Acidrain9]

after reinstalling i figured i would try whatever i could to get this issue to stop. i installed the new NVInstaller .41 and also installed all of the software updates except for the time machine one.
no instead of the gray screen my desktop just freezes. weird thing is that i can run the wow installer (without freezing) in safe mode.

i think i might try another mack_kernel tonight. anyone else out there have any suggestions? or maybe someone out there has a similar setup that could tell me what has worked for them.

[Acidrain9]

ok in case anyone wants to know, it seems that one of my ram sticks was screwing up everything, it was in slot 4 so i removed it and everything works beautifully. not sure if the ram is bad or if osx just doesn't like my 4th slot, but i ordered a new one and we will see in a few days.

[bhast2]

you had 4GB of ram didn't you

[xx66stangxx]

I am pretty sure it has to go with your ethernet (the adapter ext.)

[YamatoHD]

1) take out your ethernet adapter (use onboard one, must work like a charm)
2) if it doesnt help, take out one of your RAM sticks

I have an msi board myself(but a little worse one - K9N-Neo, nForce 550), and had much trouble with pci-ethernet cards(didnt boot at all), so i had to get my onboar one to work, now everything is perfect(except for usb drives)

By the way, anyone knows how to get USB drives to work?
When i plug in one of my flash drive, it doesnt work at all, doesnt mount, no messages about it in the console, nor indisk utility, it doesnt even get lit....

[YamatoHD]

oops, you already did take out one of ram sticks, sorry.... ^_^

[Acidrain9]

my pci ethernet works great. i bought a card that was mac compatible (startech) . i had too many problems with nforce ethernet crashing all the time. everything seems stable now. boot time is only about 15-20 sec and i havn't crashed yet.

bhast2: is there some issue with using 4 Gb of ram that i don't know about?

[bhast2]

yes there is an issue with 4 GB of ram i have to find the post

link http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=87267

[ka911]

I don't think so! because I have 4GB ram running in my PC and I have Leo working just fine. try to see applications > Utilities > Console for any error.

[roisoft]

Yes ur right, this happens with some systems not for all systems with 4gb ram, what´s your config, mobo, HDD, DVD...? and do you have in bios memory remaps options?