Mac Mini :: System Crashes When Idle / Getting Out Of Blue Crashes
Jul 11, 2009
I have a late 2009 Mac Mini with 8GB of OCZ 1333 RAM and an Intel X25-M 160GB SSD. Running 10.6 fully updated and installed from scratch.I have been getting out of the blue crashes while the system is most of the times idle. Can it be the RAM? It's reported fine as 8GB 1333 DDR under the system info. The Intel SSD runs latest firmware.
This is the log from the last crash which happened a little ago.
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 139426 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: 01A96B0F-D497-443A-8E19-9111DF3604EE
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Aug 26, 2014
I'm running a late 2009 iMac, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB memory with 27 inch ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 graphics card running 10.9.4 OSX.
I will get spontaneous crash of the system that causes small blue squares over the entire screen. The problem will resolve after 1-2 restarts. I ran the system diagnostic disk and found no problems on the long and short versions. It is an intermittent problem as the display and system are running fine now but daily will have the crash occur. Once the spots are present the computer will be frozen with no response to keys or mouse.Â
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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I can ssh to this username and work remotely. But there is another username which has not been affected with this issue and works fine. The console logs show that loginwindow process is crashing everytime. Look at the output below. There have been notes with similar effects but with specific causes (e.g. MS Excel 2004 inc Rosetta, Blootooth peripherials, eBook Studio, Photoshop CS3 etc.) which might be related cases.
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I have already tried booting in Safe Mode, deleting loginwindow.plist without success.
Process:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â loginwindow [52]
Path:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow
Identifier:Â Â Â Â Â loginwindow
Version:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ??? (???)
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Mac OS X (10.4), Unlimited Client Server
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I have used the computer total about ten times and the only thing installed is the photoshop so I dont care if I have to erase everything o whatever. How can I know what the problem is and is there a way to format it. I just changed from PC to Mac so i am not very familiar to what to do now.Â
I replaced the 1gb ram memories to two 4gb dont know if that has something to do with it but I did that when i first bought it and worked great.Â
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Mac mini (Mid 2011)
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Mac Pro (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), Panic attacks when selecting icon
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I came across an app I'd bought the last time I'd had bad Mini problems (and had forgotten), called Disk Warrior, so I tried that. Well, it did find three unfixable, corrupt .plist files that it said could cause system disruption. I thought I'd found the problems. So I deleted all of them AND their apps, downloaded fresh copies of the apps, and restarted. Still same problems.
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Mac mini (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8), Mac lover since the SE
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