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The Haestrom bug/glitch...happens to me every time and reloading to a prior save doesn't change anything.

I turn clipping off to get through the door; Iron Spine's post (linked below) explains how to set-up the key bindings for turning clipping on and off.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/979670#990301

Unfortunately using this method means you cannot save Kal'Reegar.

thank you so much i was just about ready start the hole thing back over

so whats the deal?   if i start the game back over will i have that same problem?

There's no guarantee that reloading a prior save and/or restarting the game will "fix" the bug.

The method I posted above (turning clipping off) doesn't require a restart, but it does require modifying the "Coalesced.ini" which is a pain in the tukas.

I've never had this problem in over 20 playthroughs on 3 different machines. Do we have any idea what's causing it?

I'm not completely sure why it happens.

For a long time I had no issues with this mission and then I played it with a slightly better CPU...I had to reload once and it was fine.

My current CPU is much better than my previous ones and has Windows 7, which my previous ones (that I played ME2 on) didn't. I purchased this computer so that I could play ME3 with the highest settings and it works perfectly for that, but I cannot get past that frelling door no matter what I do and spent at least one entire night (several hours) trying everything I could think of before doing the clipping adjustment (Kal'Reegar is one of my favorite characters and I didn't want to lose him, but I no longer have a choice).

Maybe we should post CPUs then. I played the game on three machines, one with an AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ (3.0 Ghz dual core) and two each with an AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE (3.4 Ghz quad core) without this issue.