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Yikes! On my MacBookPro this message popped up:

"You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power…"

My keyboard, mouse, and touchpad were all frozen.

I used TCS's laptop to look up the message, and most of the results mentioned a kernel panic. It sounds very bad, like a blue screen of death. :(

Have any of you Mac users experienced this? How did you resolve it?

I finally did the power restart but I'm still concerned. Many of the forums I read said that the problem will keep coming back, and that it could be a major hardware problem. :eek3:
 
nope never had that before. strange.
 
Reba said:
Yikes! On my MacBookPro this message popped up:

"You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power…"

My keyboard, mouse, and touchpad were all frozen.

I used TCS's laptop to look up the message, and most of the results mentioned a kernel panic. It sounds very bad, like a blue screen of death. :(

Have any of you Mac users experienced this? How did you resolve it?

I finally did the power restart but I'm still concerned. Many of the forums I read said that the problem will keep coming back, and that it could be a major hardware problem. :eek3:
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It did happened to me before at few times but it didn't pop again after restart.

It could be OS or hardware act up.
 
We downloaded the Maverick update on Sunday and now when the computer goes into sleep mode when you try to wake it up it partially comes on, but you end up having to turn the computer off and then restart. I called Apple today and they are not sure how to fix it.
 
Happen to me once and it was bad hard drive. It was on my old Macbook and almost 7 years old now. Hard drives problem are most common.

Try run Apple Hardware Test first and see how going on.

Turn computer on and hold D till apple hardware test load.
 
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