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SMC: smcreadkeyaction Error

Hello,


I recently purchased a imac from a guy who said that the early 2008 Imac 3.06Ghz only needed a new harddrive as he pulled his old harddrive to put into his new imac. When I installed a brand new WD 1.5Tb harddrive the computer would boot to apple screen then freeze after about 20 seconds. I ran in verbose script (command +v) and here is the action where it freezes. All new harddrives I have installed lion on before I placed into computer because computer would feeze if try to start in cd mode.


SMC: smcreadkeyaction Error: smcreaddata8 failed for key MOTP (kSMCKeynotfound)


At first I thought it was the new harddrive so I replaced with another new harddrive and I still have the same error message. I took to the apple store to talk to the "Genius'" and they said it was the harddrive. So far I have replaced the imac with 3 new WD green 1.5 TB harddrives new out of the box drives and keep running into the same problem. This is starting to look more like a serious problem and hoping someone can help with some info. All other boot script looks fine. I am starting to think i got sold a imac with a bad logic board.


Here is the full error script



Waiting for DSMOS

SMC:: smcreadkeyaction Error: smcreaddata8 failed for key $num (kSMCKeynotfound)

SMC: smcreadkeyaction Error $Num kSMCKeynotfound (0x84) fkeyhashtable = 0x0

Previous shutdown cause:3

SMC:: smcinitHelper ERROR: MMIO regmap == NULL -fall back to old smc mode

NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered

Authresults for 00:22:75:6e:5f:68

Airport: rsn handshake complete en1

DSMOS has arrived

SMC: smcreadkeyaction Error: smcreaddata8 failed for key MOTP (kSMCKeynotfound)


Thanks in advance.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 3.06Ghz 4gb Ram 24" early 2008 8,1

Posted on Jun 2, 2012 2:30 PM

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Nov 28, 2012 3:03 PM in response to sessionsnw

EXUSE ME IM EXPIRECNING THE SAME ERROR AS U I TRIED ALSO ALL OF THE THINGS U DID BUT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW HOW I EREASED THE SOFTWARE AND INSTALLED THE NEW VERSION OF LION PLEASE HELP ME I TOOK IT TO A REPAIR SHOP AND THEY TOLD ME IT WOULD COST ME 400 DOLLARS TO REPAIR AND I HONESTLY DONT THINK ITS THE HARD DRIVE IF U WANT TO EMAIL ME SOME HELP PLEASE DO SO AT LOROST@YAHOO.COM I WOULD REALLY APRECIATE IT THANK YOU

SMC: smcreadkeyaction Error

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