Okay, thanks so much for the replies.

I can't sleep, tried it, doesn't work. I mean, it works and then I "wake" and it seems to kinda come back but no screen. That's really no biggie though as I never put the laptop to sleep.

I have disable.kext installed in my extras folder, should I replace this with the nullcpu.kext? Or have both?

For power, I'm assuming I need to delete some of the old kexts before installing voodoo power, yes?

I am indeed running the voodoo kernel 9.5.0. I've tried upgrading using practically every method I can think of and have found out there. It always ends with the same result which is the looping restart. Stupidly annoying!!

Honestly, if I could get the heat/power situation worked out, and get it updated to 10.5.6 or so (would love .7 or .8), I'd be beyond happy with OSX on my laptop. I just feel so defeated with the update that I don't think it's gonna happen. Any help would be super appreciated.

One other thing, I notice that it seems to be using both of my processors, and I'm not using cpus=1 flag since it boots fine, but have read that using both could be a hinderance at times. Should I use cpus=1 or don't worry about it since it seems okay? Thinking this could cause some of the slow downs I get sometimes and the heat issues. Cheers!!

Oh, I've not tried patching update using zephryoth's tool, is that the solution?

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