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Bought new graphics card (from Apple) - Nvidia 8800 GT. Up until now Mac has been running fine under latest version of Leopard. All updates installed. Fitted the new card and initially Mac refused to start. Eventually I got it running by holding in the power button for several seconds. Graphics card appeared to be running fine but system would hang frequently with a kind of brown screen. Left Mac switched off over night and now things are much better and it seems to be running fine. However, it takes ages to boot to the login screen.
I thought maybe I had a system problem and decided to reinstall Leopard (on another drive). I put in the dvd, let the machine restart itself but I get the grey screen of death every time the Mac tries to boot from the system DVD. So now I have a Mac running OK (except for the age it takes to startup) but I am unable to reinstall the OS if I need to.
I have tried the following:
unplugged everything except for monitor, mouse and keyboard
ran DiskWarrior several times
reset the small button under drive bay 5 as advised by Apple
put the old graphics card back in instead of the 8800
If anyone out there could give me any advice I would be very grateful.
Thanks

Well - I'm not the greatest Mac technician. This is what the panic reporter gave after another crash from install DVD:
Thu May 8 08:37:53 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A7BED): Kernel trap at 0x65676373, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000018, CR3: 0x00df8000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x00000000, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x073ba804
CR2: 0x00000018, EBP: 0x554a7bc8, ESI: 0x06e7b800, EDI: 0x06e7b800
EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x65676373, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x07a20010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x554a79d8 : 0x12b0e1 (0x4555b4 0x554a7a0c 0x133238 0x0)
0x554a7a28 : 0x1a7bed (0x45e568 0x65676373 0xe 0x45dd24)
0x554a7b08 : 0x19e517 (0x554a7b20 0x6d1e900 0x554a7bc8 0x65676373)
0x554a7b18 : 0x65676373 (0xe 0x48 0x10 0x10)
0x554a7bc8 : 0x65665540 (0x0 0x6d1e900 0x6e7b800 0x1)
0x554a7c08 : 0x55743139 (0x6e7b800 0x1 0x0 0x13)
0x554a7c68 : 0x5573c940 (0x6e7b800 0x5 0x5 0x6e7b800)
0x554a7c98 : 0x40c515 (0x6e7b800 0x764ff58 0x764ff58 0x0)
0x554a7ce8 : 0x437535 (0x6e7b800 0x764ff58 0x764ff58 0x0)
0x554a7d48 : 0x18c8aa (0x6e7b800 0x764ff58 0x0 0x0)
0x554a7db8 : 0x12d165 (0x6ebdd78 0x6ebd790 0x554a7df8 0x11ee04)
0x554a7df8 : 0x126247 (0x6ebdd00 0x6c912b0 0x75be438 0x0)
0x554a7f08 : 0x196afc (0x554a7f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x554a7fc8 : 0x19eb34 (0x748ec20 0x0 0x1a10b5 0x748ec20)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffff378
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.NVDAResman(5.1.6)@0x65662000->0x6588efff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0x5580c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x55558000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x55734000
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x55734000->0x5574ffff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x55558000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
9A581
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro1,1 (Mac-F4208DC8)
Can anyone translate this for me please?
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