robotskip Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 So, after installing the macvidia drivers and I changed the res to 1280x1024 it just goes black and my monitor says something about being out of range blah. I can get to the login screen but is there anyway to revert the screen resolution with out reinstalling (I really don't want to have to do this.. I mean, I really don't, it took me forever to get it working) ? Usual info.. 10.4.7 - I have the chain0 method with the XP bootloader Macvidia 1.08 Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Nvidia 7600GT 80GB SATA HDD 1GB DDR2 RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry185272 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted October 5, 2006 Author Share Posted October 5, 2006 Perfect though because I'm using the win bootloader I can't hit f8 and do -s. I tried going into VMWare and had the image mounted in Daemon but the disk was mounted as read-only. I'll just reinstall it I guess, if it goes fine like before it'll be okay but this time I will be a lot more careful with resolutions. Thanks and I'll bookmark that thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 When OSX boots, the screen turns black and then grey with a spinning icon. As soon as the screen turns black, start tapping the F8 key quickly and repeatedly until a command prompt appears. Type -s at the prompt. Or boot the install DVD and hit F8 when it asks. Select your OSX partition from the menu and type -s at the command prompt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted October 6, 2006 Author Share Posted October 6, 2006 Man, it was hard to catch that black screen, it shows for about half a second so I had to tap madly. I fixed it but than I had to reinstall anywho. I now have it running solid with network/audio but I have macvidia & 10.4.8 to install but I'm afraid too as it's working fine and I don't really need/want either of those (Well, till macvidia has QE, etc) though I do want a higher res (1280x1024) but I've read that you can edit some com file, so I'll try that. You're my hero Rammjet. ^_____^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=194967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennan Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=29516 or http://macvidia.starchaser.org/option,com_...,63/topic,548.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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