White screen after hard drive change and installing 10.6

imac stuck on white screen at start up, changed the hard drive and reinstalled 10.6 its an older mac and can't handle any newer software. tried every thing i know.

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So i purchased a mid 2009 Macbook Pro from a guy with 4 gb of ram and 250gb hard drive. It worked perfectly fine when i booted it with his hard drive and ram installed.
I spilled beer in my old computer (late 2009 15" 500gb hard drive and 8gb ram) but took the hard drive to get tested and it worked fine. i later found out it was from a 2010.
Like an idiot i assumed the pro i just purchased would be able to handle the same upgrades that were in my old computer so i threw in the 500gb hard drive (2010) and the 8gb of ram.
The thing booted up fine, just a bit slow which i chalked up to my hard drive sitting unplugged for a long time.
After about 3 minutes it crashed on me. Confused i replaced the 4gb of original ram back into it. (the 8gb ram was pny i bought from ebay so i thought it could be that) It decided not to turn on or show any lights on the front except for the battery meter.
After this i replaced the original hard drive and still NO LUCK!! im really mad because i am in desperate need of the information on my original 500gb hard drive and im afraid i have destroyed 2 computers and about $1K worth of cash out the window.
HELP please enlighten me on what i have done and if the situation can be fixed.

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Hi all,
I have a 2011 quadcore i7, 4GB RAM MacBook Pro which has recently and suddenly developed this annoying fault. A perminant white screen after the Apple logo and spinwheel. I have removed the hard drive (from my early 2011 MacBook Pro) and did a clean install of Lion (10.7) and I know the harddrive is fine and functional as my Mac Pro is able to boot from it and works perfectly, put the same drive back into the MacBook Pro and same, start up chime - Apple Logo - Flash, screen stays white. So its not Harddrive and most likely not a software problem (as the drive has been whiped and OSX reinstalled.) Any thoughts that it may be a bust motherboard or graphics card?
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Hi all,
I have a 2011 quadcore i7, 4GB RAM MacBook Pro which has recently and suddenly developed this annoying fault. A perminant white screen after the Apple logo and spinwheel. I have removed the hard drive (from my early 2011 MacBook Pro) and did a clean install of Lion (10.7) and I know the harddrive is fine and functional as my Mac Pro is able to boot from it and works perfectly, put the same drive back into the MacBook Pro and same, start up chime - Apple Logo - Flash, screen stays white. So its not Harddrive and most likely not a software problem (as the drive has been whiped and OSX reinstalled.) Any thoughts that it may be a bust motherboard or graphics card?
Already tried:
Safe Boot
Single-user Mode
Verbode Mode
Resetting the NVRAM/PRAM
Wiping and installing OSX
Disc recovery
Internet Recovery
Many thanks in advance

Random restarts after hard drive change!!

Hi guys, I have a Late 2009 15" MacBook Pro (Unibody) A1286 that recently had a hard drive change due to the stock one coming close to failure. After a couple hours of usage, It suddenly freezes (and if i'm playing audio, it sounds like a broken record for a second) and restarts and gets the "Your computer restarted because of a problem" message. When the desktop loads, It requests to send a report to apple and provides this message:
Anonymous UUID: 9CA89A41-B525-1850-2916-3E5637C22C3B
Fri Nov 28 18:27:04 2014
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8006edc43e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80071c8881, type 14=page fault, registers:
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RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0x00000000091f0000, RDX: 0xffffff8020d7a810
RSP: 0xffffff80c227bf50, RBP: 0xffffff80c227bf70, RSI: 0x0000000000000050, RDI: 0xffffff8020d7a810
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0xffffff80c227be70, R11: 0xffffff80152a6080
R12: 0x0000000000000001, R13: 0xffffff80210257f8, R14: 0x0000000000000000, R15: 0xffffff8021025840
RFL: 0x0000000000010286, RIP: 0xffffff80071c8881, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000000
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0xffffff80c227be30 : 0xffffff8006ef3976
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Kernel slide: 0x0000000006c00000
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@2014anonon...
Good day and welcome to the community.
On an outside chance of an embedded key / recovery dvd version (pro vs std) mismatch, please have a look at the first screen of your UEFI / BIOS. What value do you see listed as the Preinstalled OS License? Whether it's defined as Std or Pro in UEFI / BIOS, it should match the type of W8 Genuine sticker on the bottom of your machine. Then check the labeling of the recovery DVDs you received from Lenovo to compare.
Please let us know what you find.
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