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Kernal panic on reinstallatoin


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I have a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P 4GB RAM (2x2GB), 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7400, ATI Radeon HD 4830. I am following the Snow Leopard Retail install off USB drive that LifeHacker provided. In the past, I had 10.5 installed on this system and it worked fine for a while. Then I started getting kernal panics in Mac OS X and BSOD in Windows XP whenever I processed video (like converting a TiVo show to iPhone).

 

I am now running Win 7 as the primary and want to reinstall Mac OS X as the primary if I can get it installed. When I remove all the extraneous harddrives (I have >3TB of disk space) and boot off the USB key, I can get into the boot process but it will then kick out with a kernal panic before I get to the installer.

 

One very odd thing is that I can do that a couple of times but then I cannot even get into the chameleon options menu to select verbose. I have also tried the old Boot CD I used previously (I used iPC 10.5.6 install CD)

 

Any ideas how to diagnose the cause of this panic? I have tried many different BIOS settings and memory and disk configurations. Sometimes I can get to the disk utility to reformat my HD, but the few times I get that far, it fails and I have to startt over, with more kernal panics.

 

Please help. I have search this forum and not found any hints that have worked so far. Any new ideas? Any tools to diagnose some so far hidden hardware issue?

 

Thank you in advanced.

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