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overclocked

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Feb 20, 2009
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hey,

I have a mac mini PPC, when I startup I get a "you must restart your computer" in 4 different languages. From what I've read this is a kernal error. It wont allow me to boot from cd (holding "C" or "option-C") when I do single user mode (command-S) or the other mode (command-V) I get a bunch of white text, then a cursor at the bottom, however the cursor is not flashing and I cannot type, nothing happens. I booted to the firmware (command-Option-O-F) and reset-nvram and reset-all. This didn't help.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
That is a kernel panic. Restart in verbose mode and see where the text stops. I'm willing to say some RAM went bad (it's happened to me before).

What exactly am I looking for, I didnt see anything related to ram...
last line of text says
"system model name: PowerPC 10,1"

a few lines above that it says "Kernal version"....
above that is
"Mac OS:
not yet set"
 
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