Kernel Panic: We are hanging here

Thanks for the link, I was able to open the drive through firmware and put it in.

Still can't boot from it, nor safe boot, nor command-V. Each try gives the previously mentioned kernel panics. Any other thoughts?

It is a wired keyboard. Followed your link around and reset the NVRAM and it now appears to be booting from the DVD. Will post results later. Thanks again.

Was able to boot from the intall DVD, which is the good news. The bad news is I cannot install the operating system onto either one of my drivers, about 23% into writing Essentials the install fails and suggests trying again. Which I have multiple times.

Glad to see the stars are backed, came back here to thank you for your help.

Was not able to load the operating system on the computer, took it to Apple and they could not install from their network. We have so far replaced the memory, Superdrive, one hard drive, logic board and processors and I continue to have kernel panics.

I think there is a ghost in the machine.

Thanks for the welcome, don't have the Lounge showing up for me yet, and I know Mark W. and the system people still have their hands full, but I'll drop in and say hello as soon as it is there.

This is a retail disk (10.4.0). I thought it might have been damaged in all the installing I've been doing and was going to wait for Leopard, but instead I decided to exchange it. We tried it on a computer they had at the Genious Bar, worked the first time. Then tried mine, same result I had on 7 tries. Same results on drive 1 and on drive 2 loading from their Network.

It is truly baffling.

You are welcome. One drive was zeroed out, the other one was not until at the Genius Bar. Made no difference.

It does do a weird thing that occurred prior to the new logic board: when you do an erase and install, it does not erase the drive. And doing an erase in Disk Utility would not do so the first time, but would if you immediately repeated it.

Yes, and it gives no errors on my copy.

At the Genius Bar it kernel paniced the computer everytime they ran it, hence the litany of replaced parts. I just picked it up last Tuesday from getting the Logic Board/Processors (a 3 week wait, I guess IBM didn't put them on the top of the list for the processors) and then took it back Thursday. Unfortunately while pushing it to the AS on a flatbed dolly I caught a crack in the sidewalk and the dolly stopped while I didn't both the computer and I went down although I caught it going down so it did no internal damage. Externally it scratched the aluminum which I hated because I plan to sell this computer. Fortunately the people at Apple know these problems weren't caused by the tumble. I also managed to severely bruise my knee catching the computer as I went down.

Shouldn't I be able to rant here about...something? Alas, I just don't see the point.

Maybe I hurt the computers feelings. I decided to replace it in January and sell it. Maybe it knew.

The Genius Bar officially declared it dead today after replacing the Logic Board, Dual Processors, Memory, both Harddrives and the SuperDrive. And after all of that they still could not install an operating system on either drive.

They are sending it to Cupertino for a memorial service and sending me a new one.