Macbook pro restarting non stop

[Nerykrugeer]

Hello LTT community, I know many of us only use windows and linux and may have the hate for OS X. Well i encounter a problem with my 4 year old macbook pro, I'm at the beach for vacation, but sometimes need to send emails and look into schedules. Well let me get to the problem, yesterday I woke up and went to check somw emails and the laptop was perfectly working, and later in the day went to do the samething, well from the standby modd it frooze, did a hard restart, and turn on, and the problem began. The problem its called a kernel panic the computer does a non stop restar because something is getting a fatal error internally software or hardware. Well I got into single user mode, from there I can do some check, the only one I know is the HDD check, and sometimes gives a communication error in the single user mode while doing the check. I will try to put up some pictures from my gf laptop. But anybody knows what else I could do. I look arouns and saw many had a problem because of RAM, but I want to check that before I make many crazy assumptions, also its heating up faster, the fan is working and I cleaned about a month ago or so. It was working perfectly, had some freezes but wasnt frequent(that was a warning I guess) specs for the macbook pro is 2.4ghz P8600 with 4gb RAM, a 120gb SSD and a 320 HDD. With the new OSX 10.10 Yosemite. I cant get to recovery or safe mode without crashing in moment is loading the apple logo. Thanks for all the help. I will try to post the picture of the error I got on the laptop.

[mark201200]

Get in single user mode, go in to Disk utility, select your hard disk, and press repair permissions

Then check the hdd and see if you get errors

Those may take a very llng time!

And also, try booting the Mac up,and right after the boot sound press simultaneously CMD,ALT,P,R

And if it doesn't stop change the thermal paste

[Nerykrugeer]

Get in single user mode, go in to Disk utility, select your hard disk, and press repair permissionsThen check the hdd and see if you get errorsThose may take a very llng time!And also, try booting the Mac up,and right after the boot sound press simultaneously CMD,ALT,P,RAnd if it doesn't stop change the thermal paste

How I get to disk utility from the single user mode??

[mark201200]

How I get to disk utility from the single user mode??

Applications>utility>disk utility

[Nerykrugeer]

Applications>utility>disk utility

I did that it show me utility: read only file system.

I typed /sbin/fsck -fy and at the end gave me volume OS appears to be ok.

However its heating the laptop up, not sure if it should or not heat up so much

[mark201200]

Did you insall any app before the problem appeared?

[RossMadness]

Can you boot into AHT? Command + D on startup (or if there is an internet connection, Option +D and that will use the recent version). This will run Apple Hardware Test and it will perform full HW diags.

[Nerykrugeer]

Did you insall any app before the problem appeared?

No I haven't installed anything a while, besides the upgrades for Yosemite

[Nerykrugeer]

Can you boot into AHT? Command + D on startup (or if there is an internet connection, Option +D and that will use the recent version). This will run Apple Hardware Test and it will perform full HW diags.

I did try and freezes assoon the globe starts to do the search for errors ://

Im starting to wonder if its the cpu or the ram, because if its the cpu better off buying a new laptop :/// and if the RAM, still have some hope for the laptop

[RossMadness]

If it fails in AHT, then try reseating the RAM and try AHT again. If that doesn't work, try removing the battery (if it is easily removed). My friend's MacBook recently had a bad battery and the heat from the battery was causing the laptop to shut off.

[Nerykrugeer]

If it fails in AHT, then try reseating the RAM and try AHT again. If that doesn't work, try removing the battery (if it is easily removed). My friend's MacBook recently had a bad battery and the heat from the battery was causing the laptop to shut off.

O awesome, I cant really do that right now, because dont have the little screwdriver with me, i guess I will wait until my vacation is over.

I clear the RAM and still not work, but thanks I may check the baterry, but baterry is about a year old or so.

[mark201200]

Can you boot into AHT? Command + D on startup (or if there is an internet connection, Option +D and that will use the recent version). This will run Apple Hardware Test and it will perform full HW diags.

Do this^^

[Nerykrugeer]

Do this^^

I did try that, it freezes :///

[mark201200]

I did try that, it freezes :///

Boot up while pressing cmd+r and get into recovery. You can reinstall OS X f from there.

[Nerykrugeer]

Boot up while pressing cmd+r and get into recovery. You can reinstall OS X f from there.

It freezes too :///, i cant really go far enough to do anything without freezing, and I dont have my dvd to do an installation of the software, i guess I will enjoy vacation, and work around on the phone. And go to the genius bar crap and see what they will tell me

[TDP_Equinox]

If what i read was right, disk utility is giving you a communication error?
Could be a hard drive cable.  Those things literally have one job and they break all the time. 

Try to do a PRAM Reset.
Shut it down, and boot holding CMD, OPTION, P, and R.
Let it bong, it will shut down, once it starts again let go.

[Nerykrugeer]

If what i read was right, disk utility is giving you a communication error?

Could be a hard drive cable. Those things literally have one job and they break all the time.

Try to do a PRAM Reset.

Shut it down, and boot holding CMD, OPTION, P, and R.

Let it bong, it will shut down, once it starts again let go.

Done that one too, was looking in the web for things that could be, and that one make my system freeze too, even if I do when the laptop is cold.

Thanks for the help everyone, hopefully I will solve this soon.

[TDP_Equinox]

Done that one too, was looking in the web for things that could be, and that one make my system freeze too, even if I do when the laptop is cold.

Thanks for the help everyone, hopefully I will solve this soon.

Looking more like a broken hard drive cable. 

It's a flat cable about two inces long, and it will run you about $60 if it is. 

 

[Nerykrugeer]

Looking more like a broken hard drive cable.

It's a flat cable about two inces long, and it will run you about $60 if it is.

Well for now its the lowest price to fix, which im happy about it )), just hope its not the last option that involves something with the logicboard. Abyways, Thank you very much )