En Prank Kernel Panic Screen Saver For Mac
Hey This little screensaver trick might be pretty old but it is fun to use. If you have ever decided to play around with your Mac, you may encounter. I have only encountered one Kernel Panic when I first got my Mac, I still don’t no how I did it. I haven’t had one since. But Kernel Panics are the be all and end all for a Mac. They are similar to the blue screen of death. It is game over, restart time when you experience them.
Thankfully they don’t appear very often. As a result it is a great practical joke to have a Kernel Panic screen saver to play on unexpecting friends or work colleagues.
If you head over to, you can download the screen saver at the bottom of the post. Once as you install the saver by double clicking on it and following the prompts you can experience something similar to this. Although it isn’t 100% life like it will fool the average passer. Probably funny to use on a friends computer while they are working on an important document, and tape their reactions. A fun little trick, although it stops working once as a person moves their mouse.
You can have a blue screen of death if you really want to freak out your friends and passers.
Kernel panic; screen distortions Can someone help me to analyze what this System Diagnostic Report means? I have been experiencing random freezes and occasional screen distortion, usually horizontal lines, or zigzag graphics. Do I have a hardware problem here? My machine is a Late 2006 iMac running OSX 10.7.5. Hello Denise, Trouble is it could be many things, on the face of it it looks like CPU, RAM,.
Have you blown the dust out lately? Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related.
Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r. In fact, do 3 in a row, takes a bit of time. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC). The WDDriveManagerSe is suspect also.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in ApplicationsUtilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System PreferencesAccounts (Users & Groups in later OSX versions)Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed. Check the System PreferencesOther Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes. Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible. /private/var/run/StartupItems /Library/StartupItems /System/Library/StartupItems /System/Library/LaunchDaemons /Library/LaunchDaemons more. Similar Messages. My mac has a 'Kernel Panic' screen come up on start up. No matter what I try I can't get past this to fix it.
Any hints out there? Do I have to completely wipe my drive and re-install to fix this?
I can't even back up my files before doing this as like I say I can't get past the Kernel Panic message. There are some fairly informative articles about kernel panics.OS X: About kernel panics: Note the toggle triangles to get more info in the above article, some are important steps, with alternative methods of accessing or performing a suggested activity and may vary with the OS X version in use.Resolving Kernel Panics:.Technical Note: TN2063: Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics: The above TN covers several technical aspects to identify & troubleshoot. Some are above the average user needs, but still can be rather helpful. Hopefully you can get past the kernel panic screen, there are several ways to attempt to do that, however if the issue is hardware, a reinstall of the OS X may not cure the underlying cause of the symptom.
Good luck & happy computing!. powerbook g4 - does not start up.it shows kernel panic screen.how do i fix/resolve this problem? In the overwhelming majority of cases, kernel panic indicates a severe hardware problem. Braby and Allan pointed to useful things. If you can boot from CD / DVD and reinstall without any kernel panic, then may be a software problem, but this is less probable.
You must check, anyway. If you have a 2nd mac around and a firewire cable, you may try to restart the ill mac in target mode and connect it to a healthy mac to see whether it may be used in target mode.
En Prank Kernel Panic Screen Saver For Macbook
I've had my mac book pro since 2007/8, it's on os x 10.4, and has worked well until last night when the screen froze in a crazy distorted pattern and I had to turn it off. Now it kernel panics every time i turn it on and it attempts to start up with the same crazy distorted pattern across the loading screen and even the kernel panic message. I don't have the start up discs with me. I've tried the troubleshooting for kernel panics i.e. Holding shift when start up - did nothing 2. Holding option + command + p + r when start up - chimed three times but wouldn't load after this 3. Holding command + s on start up to boot in single user mode - it loads the logs but with the same crazy distortion and when i try to exit to boot in single user mode it won't do anything so that is where i am up to.
Mac Kernel Panic Fix
Really need my laptop for work and about to leave the country to travel so need it asap - i'm in melbourne and the apple store is miles out of city - any suggestions on reliable apple retailers also gratefully received. Anyone any ideas on the damage/ cause/ possible solution??? I love my mac. Please don't die. If this happened spontaneously and not as the result of a software update or any other change that you made, then it's probably due either to a hardware failure or to data corruption. There isn't much you can do without the installation disc, and maybe not even with the disc.
If you can boot in single-user mode, run fsck as prompted on the screen. If it finds problems, run it again.
Any authorized Apple dealer should be able to provide service, but it may take more time than you have. Just a couple days ago I I was watching a video on Youtube, when all of a sudden I got a 'Kernal Panic' error screen as seen here: I kind of shrugged the error off as a fluke, since most blogs and forums that talk about MacbookPro Kernel Panics are rarities. That usually don't occur again, and if they do often because of either minor issues, or on the otherhand major issues. So thinking it wouldn't happen again I used my Macbook for a while without a problem. Decided to launch Mozilla and start browsing the web (which seemed to work fine for 15 mins or so), when all of a sudden I got a second Kernel Panic error. This happened while a specific webpage was loading up (not Youtube). So that scared me, heck this is a fairly new MacbookPro.
I used it again for a bit, and decided to try an experiement. I browsed for a while, then tried to visit the same webpage that gave me the Kernel Panic just before, & bam it happened again for a 3rd time! Ok so being a bit of a tech guru I decided to run these tests to make sure all is well with my machine: - Booted into Safe Mode - Ran Disk Utility under the Recovery Partition to verify the HDD Structure - Checked HDD Smart status - Ran TechToolPro v7 to do a thorough Disk Scan of every sector on the HDD as well as a Video Memory test, and Memory Test.
Booted into the Apple Hardware Test program to check my machine with the extended test selected - Verified and Repaired all Permissions errors - Scanned my HDD with my antivirus ESET CyberSecurity Every single one of the aforementioned checks I did came out fine. This all took hours to do. The only thing that is never okay so to speak is the permissions errors. Which have always listed a bunch of iTunes errors that show up, but never repair even when it says they did. But that's been that way for almost a year now.
I believe there's another permissions error in there somewhere that's also always been there too though (which never repairs). Anyways the only thing I have noticed odd recently is our internet acting weird during the days this happened. Not just on my MacbookPro but on our iPhones too.
We're all connected via WiFi, and have noticed some pages not loading, some videos pausing, server messages, 503 errors too I believe. I tried powering off our router and modem twice. But the Kernel Panics I mentioned earlier had still happened even after doing that. My next step is to call our ISP to make sure all is well on their end. Seeing as I haven't had a Kernel Panic occur while doing anything else, ONLY while browsing the internet. Which I have read on some blogs can happen do to bad network packets.
If I'm correct then that might be what has happened. But why in the. would a MacbookPro restart due to a Kernel Panic error just because of some bad Internet packets coming in? I would have thought pages wouldn't load, not some oblivion style error that reboots the machine! Think about it the Kernel Panics didn't happen during any of my tests which took hours to complete. The antivirus scan alone took 7 hours, on my 750GB HDD. I'm actually writing this post from the very same MacbookPro right now.
The only things I have changed on my machine in the past two weeks was install a MAudio MBox Mini audio driver, iLoc License Key program, & install Pro Tools Express. All of which work hand in hand to make the external audio box work for recording vocals/music. The drivers and software are unsigned from what I recall. I had to disable the 'Install Signed Applications Only' section of the Security panel in Mountain Lion before doing so. As far as I know they're the correct drivers for my Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.5. The other thing I installed a night or two before the issues started was the newest version of ESET antivirus which installs over the exsiting one. Highlight for mac.
But they're good, I've done this many times and never had an issue. I think I did a Mozilla Firefox update once in the past two weeks too. But they're known for being really good on releases. I've also used my MacbookPro for two weeks since I first installed the external audio box (which connects via usb), and never had this happen. Btw these Kernel Panics happened while the external audio interface was disconnected. Again not something that happened before in two weeks since it's been disconnected many times. I'm positive my machine is fine something I can't really put my finger on made this happen, and I'm scared it will happen again while doing something important!
I don't know what to do. Is there something else I can check? Should I still call my ISP to make sure all is well on their end? & why the. would a Kernel Panic happen due to simple Network Packets (internet) not being received correctly over wifi that would cause a sudden reboot?
Thank You P.s. I saved everyone of the Reports that came up after each of the 3 Kernel Panics happened. As per Apples little info about what the reports contain (bunch of garbled words and #'s), they mention to search it for a couple words that referr to serious hardware problems.
I never found those words either while using notepad to scan them through. @nbar I had 3 Kernel Panics happen, here's my most recent error report. I've posted something else below the report for you to see starting in bold characters. Maybe you are looking for.
I just sent a test message to someone I just met from my iPhone to her iPhone and it came through from my email address instead of my phone number. This seems very strange. Anyone know why this might happen? It seems like a potentially big privacy pr. With Leopard/SnowLeopard Server, opening ports back to my server @ 500, 1701 and 4500 were sufficient for L2TP VPN. I had no issues trying to connect to my VPN until I upgraded to Lion (which I'm quickly learning was a big mistake). Now it appears t.
Hello: Anyone had installed Oracle 8.1.7 in Caldera Open Unix 8 with LKP (Linux Kernel Personality)? I've installed the software but I can't create a new database. I think there may be an operating system problem because I can't even get the startup. I have been hanging on to an antiquated Eudora email program (6.2.4) for far too long because I did not know how to migrate it, all of the settings, address book, filters, folders, etc. To Thunderbird. As a result I'm still running Mac OS 10.4.11.
I. I have a WRT54G (Version. 6) Wireless-G Broadband Router and I have had it for about a year now. Then one day it just became VERY slow. My internet is supposed to be around an average of 4000kb and now its all the sudden 500kb. So I tried many things.