Kernal Panic upon start-up

I have a late-206 Black MacBook. When I start it up, an error message occurs (the karnal panic) and I have to shut it down again. I took it to a local mac store and they said the panics were being caused by the dead battery.

 

I got a new battery and started it up. The Kernal Panics are still happening. However, now the laptop will sometimes start up normally or in safe-boot. This only happens rarely, though. I also checked to make sure the RAM was in all the way. Still Panicing.

 

What could be causing this and how can I fix it? Or is my laptop dead?

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Kernal Panic upon start-up

I have a late-206 Black MacBook. When I start it up, an error message occurs (the karnal panic) and I have to shut it down again. I took it to a local mac store and they said the panics were being caused by the dead battery.

 

I got a new battery and started it up. The Kernal Panics are still happening. However, now the laptop will sometimes start up normally or in safe-boot. This only happens rarely, though. I also checked to make sure the RAM was in all the way. Still Panicing.

 

What could be causing this and how can I fix it? Or is my laptop dead?

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Startup disk full - Battery

I've been looking at forums for 2-3 days now and I've seen a few common problems

First being the Mail app and how Mail tries retrieving recovered mail automatically and that might cause an issue. I don't have a Recovered Mail folder, just an outbox + the whole folder is not worryingly big (1.8GB with a total of 15k+ e-mails)

 

What I've also noticed is that from 7hours battery I usually get, now I get 3:30 (same brightness, same applications open)
Fans start spinning without any apps open

 

It's a MBPr (mid 2012 model)

 

I have an app called FreeMemory, downloaded from the AppStore. For those who don't know, it shows the RAM usage and lets you clear the RAM cache. Suddenly from the usual 4GB of RAM left out of the 8GB, it runs down to 22MB with only Finder open. I then go to Force Quit, and relaunch Finder a few times and it gets fixed.

It seems like the problem is indexing my macbook since when the RAM is down to 22MB, Finder is literally empty, I can't see any of my files.

I have almost 40GB left on my 170GB Mac OS X partition.

 

 

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Kernal Panic upon start-up

I have a late-206 Black MacBook. When I start it up, an error message occurs (the karnal panic) and I have to shut it down again. I took it to a local mac store and they said the panics were being caused by the dead battery.

 

I got a new battery and started it up. The Kernal Panics are still happening. However, now the laptop will sometimes start up normally or in safe-boot. This only happens rarely, though. I also checked to make sure the RAM was in all the way. Still Panicing.

 

What could be causing this and how can I fix it? Or is my laptop dead?

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Startup disk full - Battery

I've been looking at forums for 2-3 days now and I've seen a few common problems

First being the Mail app and how Mail tries retrieving recovered mail automatically and that might cause an issue. I don't have a Recovered Mail folder, just an outbox + the whole folder is not worryingly big (1.8GB with a total of 15k+ e-mails)

 

What I've also noticed is that from 7hours battery I usually get, now I get 3:30 (same brightness, same applications open)
Fans start spinning without any apps open

 

It's a MBPr (mid 2012 model)

 

I have an app called FreeMemory, downloaded from the AppStore. For those who don't know, it shows the RAM usage and lets you clear the RAM cache. Suddenly from the usual 4GB of RAM left out of the 8GB, it runs down to 22MB with only Finder open. I then go to Force Quit, and relaunch Finder a few times and it gets fixed.

It seems like the problem is indexing my macbook since when the RAM is down to 22MB, Finder is literally empty, I can't see any of my files.

I have almost 40GB left on my 170GB Mac OS X partition.

 

 

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Macbook startup problem

Hello,

 

I have a Macbook Pro (A1278) and I am having the problem this guy have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5H0SvvwxYw

 

If I keep the power button for a couple seconds after several tries it actually starts but everything is VERY slow.

 

The battery seems to have some problem because the message "Service battery" showed up a couple weeks ago. But I disconnected the battery and used only the power cord and it did the same.

When after more than 30' it was a little useable, I managed to check the disk utility and the S.M.A.R.T. status is verified.

 

Does anyone have any idea on what's the problem?

 

Thanks.

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My macbook air says my startup disk is almost full, how do I delete things ?

I emptied my trash and deleted some TV show, pics... but still full !

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