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[Ryan2925]

Hi guys, I have the n610c, and I was wondering why it keeps overheating. I have it lifted off my desk space so it has some airflow, and it keeps just turning off during the installation. This time, I only had 12 minutes left maybe i can let it cool down and get back to it.

EDIT: It must be a panic, because it keeps turning off during install. I was trying iDeneb, leopard, and I will tell you guys that it WILL NOT WORK. I am burning Kalyway, and downloading Tiger too, Ill keep it updated with my progress. Also, you must burn iDeneb at 8x, dont do it at 16x. Just some advice.

[retrorandy]

Very cool that someone is trying to run Leopard on this machine. It took me forever to figure out/get OS 10.4.11 working perfectly so after that I've been terrified to mess with it.

It does run hot (full throttle) on the Hackintosh side because I never figured out how to get the speedstep CPU thingy to work correctly. I'm super reluctant to mess with anything in that it was such a huge pain for me to get 10.4.11 (especially QE) working properly.

I'm very curious to see what your success rate will be. I imagine the low end video card (by today's standards) would really hamper a Leopard installation.

Overall, after buying this laptop used/refurbished on Ebay (can't beat the cheap price of powerful P4's) quite a few months ago I've been very happy with how durable (I've even dropped it twice) of a laptop its been. Reading about the heating issues did freak me out a bit, but I always try to keep the vent at the bottom clear.

[Nick14]

I've tried on a n610c Leopard JaS 10.5.4 and it worked perfectly everything except the grafics no qe/ci

[retrorandy]

Wow, Nick...that's great news. I might just have to download Leopard JAS & give it a whirl on the laptop. I wonder if I jump through the same driver hoops as I did in Tiger I could at least get QE working? I swear my shorts are going to catch on fire from how hot this dang laptop is right now.

[ResX]

I bought an Evo N1000c from a friend for 20 bucks and was able to get XxX 10.4.11 running great on it. I never got QE working but Im goign to mess with AGPgart when I get a chance later. The hardware looks similar as I have a P4M with SSE2, a 30GB drive, a DVD-ROM/CDRW, and a Mobile Radeon 7500. Under XP its pretty fast with only 256 mb of ram, and under Mac its very speedy as well.

Even thought I never got QE working, OpenGL works great on it. I was able to mess around with OEcake (2D physics sandbox) under texture mode.

If you want to upgrade the ram to 1 GB, check this link out:

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16820145482

If you also want to upgrade to a larger harddrive, heres one I'm going to order soon:

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16822148128

Durability wise, its incredible. When I bought it, it had already suffered a few nasty little drops. Most recently, it slid off my bed with a wireless card in the side, and even after landing on the card and destroying the pcmcia slot, it still works fine. Only thing I have problems with is the fan. It cools the laptop fine for the most part, but because of its age its very loud and buzzes whenever XP loads up, but dies down afterwards.

If anyone knows what kind of MiniPCI wireless card is compatible with Tiger, please let me know. Im thinking of installing one. I'd even be happy with 802.11/b.

[Nick14]

iwi2200 ,artheos 5212 but vacuum the lappy it decreased my laptop with 5c* and then put new cooling past and it dropped it down an other 9c*

[kaerf52]

Nick14, on Oct 4 2008, 04:11 PM, said:

I've tried on a n610c Leopard JaS 10.5.4 and it worked perfectly everything except the grafics no qe/ci

Hey Nick, can you tell me the trick Leopard JAS 10.5.4 running on an evo n610c ?

I've got the boot-loop, or it hangs after the little apple appears.

Thank you and greetings from Germany !

[Robin_Man]

Hi,

I want to install Mac OS X 10.4.8 (JaS). Does it work on Comaq Evo N600c with 384 MB of RAM?
Or Compaq Evo N610c is a different system?

Sorry for my English, I am not good at it.

Greetings, Robin.

[kaerf52]

[quote name='Robin_Man' date='Jan 8 2009, 05:31 PM' post='1032356']
Hi,

I want to install Mac OS X 10.4.8 (JaS). Does it work on Comaq Evo N600c with 384 MB of RAM?
Or Compaq Evo N610c is a different system?


On Evo N610c  JAS 10.4.8  works like a charm.  

                                                                                       kaerf52

[Nick14]

Robin_Man, on Jan 8 2009, 05:31 PM, said:

Hi,

I want to install Mac OS X 10.4.8 (JaS). Does it work on Comaq Evo N600c with 384 MB of RAM?
Or Compaq Evo N610c is a different system?

Sorry for my English, I am not good at it.

Greetings, Robin.

No you cant becouse it's a P3 and doesn't have sse2

[azurekite15]

Hi im new here and i have just installed Jas Mac OS X 10.4.8 on my compaq evo n610c and i cant get it to boot! After i installed i took the disc out, Restarted and then it said something like "Cant find operating system" What should i do?

[kaerf52]

azurekite15, on Feb 2 2009, 08:55 PM, said:

Hi im new here and i have just installed Jas Mac OS X 10.4.8 on my compaq evo n610c and i cant get it to boot! After i installed i took the disc out, Restarted and then it said something like "Cant find operating system" What should i do?

Hi,

give your hdd a name without spaces.  "macosx"  is ok, "mac os x"  is not ok.

Ciao,  kaerf52

[dexa]

i followed drangos instructions on page 2 to install osx on my n610c.
worked fine so far.. no problems during installation but when i try to boot the OS i just get a blinking cursor

whats wrong there?

btw: my hdd name = "OSX" so no spaces or anything.

i followed drangos instructions on page 2 to install osx on my n610c.
worked fine so far.. no problems during installation but when i try to boot the OS i just get a blinking cursor

whats wrong there?

btw: my hdd name = "OSX" so no spaces or anything.

[kaerf52]

i followed drangos instructions on page 2 to install osx on my n610c.
worked fine so far.. no problems during installation but when i try to boot the OS i just get a blinking cursor

whats wrong there?

btw: my hdd name = "OSX" so no spaces or anything.
[/quote]


Hi,

Jas 10.4.8 for me works great. 10.4.11  doesn't  work on my evo n610c. Blinking cursor after booting the OS !

                                                                                                              kaerf52

[yoshiharra]

OK, followed drangos instructions on page 2 to install osx on my n610c. I used XxX 10.4.11, no go! I get blinking cursor after reboot!! Please help!

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[acmilancrazy]

I got 10.5.6 working with wifi, sound, ethernet, etc see here....

http://www.insanelym...howtopic=158883

[smf1993]

hi I need help with my compaq evo n610c laptop. I installed Mac os x 10.4.8 jas and every thing works but i can't get internet. I hook it up using lan and i tried using 3 wireless adapters.I normally use the Dynex n notebook card but that doesn't do any thing. So i tried to use a netgear WN111 v2"witch is usb" and the same thing happens  nothing
Any help? thx