[SOLVED] Kernel panics when booting, tried everything, help? MacBook Unibody(plastic)

[retsteel]

I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with this unibody MacBook that I bought off of craigslist. I bought it not booting, when I saw that it did indeed get past the chime. I assumed that since it posts it simply needs a reinstall or at worst a hard drive. Now I have discovered that this thing will not boot from any medium that I can think of, I even pulled out my windows 7 test ssd and that didn't work. It gives me a similar kernel panic each time, and I've taken a couple pictures of me trying to boot it in verbose mode. I have since stripped it down to just the logic board, display, a known good stick of ram and a flash drive to try to boot and it still wouldn't work, I'm thoroughly stumped.

Any help would be appreciated, and I'm sorry if I put this in the wrong place or in some other way violated convention on this site.

 

[McHenryB]

I suspect that you have a logic board problem (which would explain why the owner decided to offload it). If that is the case then I doubt it would be economical to repair it.

But you could have a look at the troubleshooting steps here: http://www.macworld.com/article/2027201/how-to-troubleshoot-a-kernel-panic.html

Update: I'm assuming that you are using an install disk designed specifically for the model of Mac that you have? Other disks (other than a retail copy) won't work. And if you are using a pirated copy downloaded from who knows where - forget it. A Windows hard disk from another computer has zero chance of booting in a Mac.