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What do the console logs say?
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NVDA (OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x2 = Fifo: SW Method Error
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NVDA (OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x2 = Fifo: SW Method Error

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And before that: SMC::smcReadyKeyAction ERROR: smcReadData8 failed for key $Num (kSMCKeyNotFound)
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And before that: SMC::smcReadyKeyAction ERROR: smcReadData8 failed for key $Num (kSMCKeyNotFound)

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I can't thank you enough. I rooted around Google looking for exactly that. It worked!
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I can't thank you enough. I rooted around Google looking for exactly that. It worked!

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I am having some serious problems with a Mac. One of the users hard shutdown after it froze with what sounded like graphical artifacts. When they rebooted it, it would load past the Apple logo, to a cursor in the upper left corner, and then the pinwheel indefinitely. I have done the following:<br />
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1. Repaired disk and permission.<br />
2. Reinstalled Lion 3 to 4 x<br />
3. Used brand new hard drive<br />
4. Cloned from a working Mac OS with identical hardware. <br />
6. Ran Apple Hardware Test, which said that no trouble was found.<br />
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I am able to run it in safe mode every time. No matter what I do, it will not boot. It is effectively a brand new machine, software wise that is. I even wiped the recovery partition before I cloned. I've been working on this for 2 1/2 days now. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
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I am having some serious problems with a Mac. One of the users hard shutdown after it froze with what sounded like graphical artifacts. When they rebooted it, it would load past the Apple logo, to a cursor in the upper left corner, and then the pinwheel indefinitely. I have done the following:

1. Repaired disk and permission.
2. Reinstalled Lion 3 to 4 x
3. Used brand new hard drive
4. Cloned from a working Mac OS with identical hardware. 
6. Ran Apple Hardware Test, which said that no trouble was found.

I am able to run it in safe mode every time. No matter what I do, it will not boot. It is effectively a brand new machine, software wise that is. I even wiped the recovery partition before I cloned. I've been working on this for 2 1/2 days now. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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