# Argh! I need Mac advice!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/argh-i-need-mac-advice/274020>\
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**Created:** [October 23, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/argh-i-need-mac-advice/274020 "2008-10-23T20:27:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![shane\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@shane\_c](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shane_c)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/argh-i-need-mac-advice/274020/1 "2008-10-23T20:27:50Z")

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I hate to be the “NEED HELP ASAP” guy, but we’re having issues here, and it’s holding up all of our work.

A Mac Pro G5 here at work is doing the kernel panic thing every time it tries to start up. I’ve gone through as much tests as I could think of (did the Hardware Test, Reset the NVRAM and PRAM, tried booting from an OS9 and OSX discs…), but I think I’m just going to have to “[Archive and Install](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1710)” OS X (10.4.4).

It recommends backing up important files before doing this, but I’m not sure how to do that when the computer won’t even start up at all.

Any ideas??

Thanks guys.