I have a MacPro 2.66Ghz of 2006 which is a kernel panic as soon as I turn. When I boot from the install DVD (Leopard), same thing. I thought this might come a problem of your motherboard or graphics card, since last few days the screen did appear aberrations of pixels. But I have a windows partition created with bootcamp, and there is no problem when I start windows. The images are displayed normally and I can use the computer in all its functions.
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