Monday, October 12, 2009

Mac mini Home Media Centre issues [UPDATED]

The home media centre Mac mini (low end of the latest model with 4GB RAM) started kernel (the core of the operating system) panicking overnight recently. Backed it up, blew it away and re-installed Snow Leopard. It then kernel panicked after I installed updates and drivers but noticed the panic seemed to centre around the loading of the Logitech Control Centre drivers. Un-installed said drivers and the machine hasn't crashed since. Strangely, I'm using these drivers on my MacBook (latest model White with 6GB RAM as mentioned in an earlier post!) and haven't had a single problem. Must be 2 things butting heads on the Media Centre? Will continue to monitor!

Update: It's back to kernel panicking (blue screen type) during idle time. Have now tried all the usual suspects and still nothing. Looks like it's next trip will be to an Apple Service Centre!

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