Could non-Apple power cord cause kernel panic?
I have been having intermittent kernel panics on my laptop for about 3 months now. I have done everything suggested in this article http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html except erasing my HD and re-installing Leopard. I even ran the hardware test for 50 loops. I uninstalled google desktop and installed a bunch of updates. I also took it in to my local Mac Store and they found nothing wrong with it (except a minor disk repair) and couldn’t get it to panic for them. Their best answer was that the logic board “may” be starting to fail even though it passed hardware tests. I am wondering if using a non-apple charger could have anything to do with the panics. I replaced my original with a macallay charger well over a year ago. After accidentally leaving my charger in my office an hour away I borrowed one from a friend and was using it (though not exclusively) for a while and the kernel panics seemed to subside. Then 2 days in a row using the macally charger it was having kernel pani
