Kernel Panic Message + Booting Problems

[Melquiades]

Hi Everyone,

I'd really appreciate a little help with a problem I've been struggling with the last few days. I have a 24" iMac with 2.33 Ghz Intel Dual Core with 2 GB of RAM, and I'm running OS X 10.6.8.

A couple of days ago my computer crashed and I got the infamous kernel panic message ("you need to restart your computer..."). I can only boot my system up using safe mode. If I try to use my external drive or the installation disk that came with the computer I get the kernel panic message every time.

While in safe mode I've verified the disk, and there's nothing wrong with it apparently. I want to format everything, because it's been a long time, but this doesn't seem to be an option for me at the moment due to these other problems. Here's a copy of a part of the kernel panic message (which is a lot longer):

panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A407F): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x000000c0, CR3: 0x01248000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x25843438, EBX: 0x04199804, ECX: 0x00000001, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x000000c0, EBP: 0x25843468, ESI: 0x00000000, EDI: 0x00000040
EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x3cee6b52, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x047e0010
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.NVDAResman(4.3.8)@0x3ced3000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.1)@0x35b6e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.4)@0x3bb39000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.4)@0x35de3000
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4.4)@0x3bb39000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.1)@0x35b6e000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.4)@0x35de3000
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4.4)@0x35de3000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.1)@0x35b6e000

Anyways, I'd really appreciate someone else's take on this, because I'm kind of out of ideas at the moment!

 

[Kaveman]

Kernel Panics meant there is something serious wrong with your Mac. I would take it to an Apple Service Centre near you.