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hello my favorite macintosh-ites. i have a computer that has a kernal panic doing EVERYTHING. it wont get past the apple when i try to boot from hard drive, cd, another disk or anyhting. i have tried multiple hard drives and sticks of rams with no result, just kernel panics. i replaced the heatsink and fan too. this computer worked just last week, i havent used it since, then today i was giving it to a friend and BAM, no good! any ideas what would cause this kernel panic? if i leave no hard drive in it or anything, the computer will come to a flashing folder as expected, but will kernel panic when you try to do anything else including run an AHT… if it makes a difference, last week i downloaded the firmware that prevents the computer from sleeping, computer worked fine after that then stopped. thanks in advance everyone.
I am really concerned about that firmware you installed. I don’t mess with firmware unless absolutely necessary because its far to easy to brick a logic board and this seems like a firmware problem to me based on what you have tried. If there is any way to undo that install I would–you probably will need to download the proper firmware from Apple to reinstall. How you will get it to run I don’t know. You could ask a “genius” to do it for you but they probably will just want to replace the logic board.
