Kernel Panics - Flash Video + RAW Images
I'm running a Core i7 920 Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Retail Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Hackintosh. I'm getting Kernel panics and the culprits appear to be RAW image files and Flash video. When viewing a flash video, whether it be fullscreen or normally I…
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- @richardsim7 Published 2010-01-18
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I'm running a Core i7 920 Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Retail Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Hackintosh.
I'm getting Kernel panics and the culprits appear to be RAW image files and Flash video.
When viewing a flash video, whether it be fullscreen or normally I very often get a kernel panic, I've tried updating to the latest beta of Adobe Flash to no avail.
And when attempting to open a RAW image file in Photoshop I get a kernel panic as well.
Opening RAW in Aperture wasn't so bad, it worked for a while but randomly it gave me kernel panics. However now whenever I try to open Aperture it instantly causes a KP.
I believe this could be down to the graphics card, an nVidia GTX 260 which uses an EFI string in the com.apple.boot.plist to enable QE/CI.
Does anybody have any possible solutions/ideas?
Many Thanks,
-Rich-
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Well it would appear I have solved it. It was neither GPU Audio or NTFS. It was the CPU. Turns out a 4ghz overclock was functional enough to appear stable, but really it wasn't. This also explains the occasional freeze I got whenever installing OS X.
I turned it down to 3.6ghz and I can watch YouTube for hours and edit RAW images happily without a fuss
Just a warning for those who overclock I suppose
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4ghz... It seems like yesterday I was installing a floating point math coprocessor on my 486 rig so that I could run games that required a pentium rig.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
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| @richardsim7 | Primary Author | 3 | 2010-01-18 → 2010-01-22 |
| @lanceomni | Contributor | 1 | 2010-01-22 |