Misc Information

This is a compilation of many different misc solutions available. It is not exhaustive. If you don't find what you want, search for it.

Please do not post questions in this thread looking for a solution that is not listed. Use other threads for that.

Please do post other good known similar solutions in this thread. I will try to incorporate any posted solutions into the list. Otherwise, users can read the thread for any other solutions.


AMD Enabler - Read this

Battery meter - For laptops, enable battery meter, read this

Boot OSX from a Pendrive - Read this

Cardbus/PCMCIA Controller

ID 104C:8039 Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Driver

ID 104C:8031 Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Driver

ID 104C:AC46 Texas Instruments PCI4520 Driver

Clone your hard drive - Get app here

DVD Player function on SSE2 in Tiger - See this

Hiding Files like mach_kernel - Read this.

iTunes Removal - Read this

JMicron IDE patch for 10.4.8 DVD - Member thedguy created a PPF patch to the JaS 10.4.8 Intel SSE3 Only Reseed DVD to allow it to boot on JMicron IDE drives. Find it on the Demon (OSX 10.4.8 Jmicron JMB IDE patch) and read about it here.

Laptop lid - close and no sleep - Use insomnia.kext here

Laptop too HOT - Read this

MacDrive - can't find your partition. Be sure you have updated to latest version. If you run or have deleted either Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120%, then there is a little file that is interfering with MacDrive. Even if you deleted the 2 apps, the file is left behind. Find SPTD.SYS file in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers and rename it to something like SPTD.SYS.OLD and reboot. Doing this might interfere with mounting virtual drives. If you need to mount the virtual drive, rename the SPTD file to its original name and reboot. This will again interfere with MacDrive. Stuck with only one of two features at a time.

Power Management - see Battery Meter above

Reboot fix - Computer hangs when it reboots, then read this

SMB/AFS (Samba/AppleFileSharing) fix - For 10.4.7 and maybe 10.4.8. If you can't access Windows shares or Apple shares, try this

SATA

nForce (ATA and SATA) - driver by MeDevil
nForce4 - Driver source and an older thread, newer, newer, and newest. Also, Beta effort by bikedude880
Silicon Image PCI card - Read this

VIA - How to install on a system with VIA SATA. Read this

Time sync - If you find that your Windows time and OSX time are several hours different, then read this.

USB replug - If you suffer from having to replug your USB devices on every boot, read this.

USB2 - Read this. Versions for 8.4.1 kernel and 8.8.1 kernel by orByte.

VMWare - gives the error "Virtual machine kernel stack fault (hardware reset)". Read this.

Windows - Hide the Partition - (No salami) Read this or this.

Windows - Mount the Partition - stop the Initialize messages. Read this.

I think a link to Ultimate Boot CD, and Hiren's Boot CD would do well here...so when they mess up partitions or mess up entirely both have boot managers.

Also maybe a link to Acronis.

Rammjet, good compilation.+Congrats

Nice work Rammjet

OK........I had found the solution
There are seperate drivers of MAC OS X 10.4 for USB. For Example, seperate ddriver for WebCam(USB), Infrared etc.
For support only for Flash Drive, just download the KIT which matches your version of MAC OS X 10.4 from:
http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers...d/usbdebug.html
and you will have your USB for Flash Drive WORKING!

Hi Rammjet and Everyone...got a question for you as you seem to be the professionals:

I am currently owning a basic Intel system with one CPU E6850, dual core, 3 gig, further an ASUS P5N-SLI with two ASUS EN7900GT cards in SLI. In addition one IDE HD, and on HD on SATA (non-SCSI), which might be the cause for the following problem (this is an install problem and posted maybe in the wrong section, sorry for that but i could not find a solution for that yet in this forum):

I had installed the Mac OSX (JaS prepatched 10.4.8. version from defiant) on the SATA hard disk, and the IDE first partition had the WinXP on. But it was not succesfull, and too late to fix the issue with the fdsik -e to flag the WinXP partition to make it active and use the os selector.

I am using further Acronis disk director suite as recommended with OS selector.
I am using the Wiki.org something install guide dual boot for the 10.4.8. version.
Install DVD is the prepatched JaS MACOSX 10.4.8., patched by defiant (thanks guys!!)

Before the MAC installation on the SATA, i experiemented with the VMware workstation 6 and could install the non-prepatched JaS 10.4.8. without any problems on the SATA....cool, but very slow, so i though this is not a premanent solution...

At the moment I moved the SATA hard disk to disk number 2, and my IDE is disk number 1, all of them have 4 partitions on it, the IDE has FAT32 partitions, and the SATA has NTFS partitions. So i gave it a try and I could not successfull install the MAC version on the SATA disk (obviously).

So I ended up with, for my point of view, only one solution to make the IDE HD your primary active disk, with the following scheme:

WinXP on first partition (NTFS), 70gb, primary active
MACOSX on second (formated into FAT32), 70gb, primary
WinData on third and fourth (NTFS), 70gb each, both logical

My SATA disk I have currently not connected to the mainboard as I want to make it a clean install on the IDE.

However, I formatted all disks and partitions in the above formats, after booting the Jas DVD it recognized the partitions but I could not earese the FAT32 partition for MAC, so I eareased the entire HD IDE and partitioned it afterwards in MS dOS partition for the first, third and fourth and the second one was MAC extended journaled as recommended. Currently, WinXP is installed on the first partition.

Ok, partition was successfully recognized and I began with the installation progress, now, as described in the various guides that this is the tricky part, I used several option out of the installer to install the JaS version successfully but ended up with a blank screen after the apple boot screen (yes the one with the aten apple bit and spinning-sort-of-clock beneith). I tried all options, with NV40 chip, without, with recommended softare, without, with and with out X11 and printer drievers etc...

I have therefore two question:

1. Shows this blank screen the problem that my graphic cards do not recognize MAC? If so, how can I bypass that or install a driver macvidia before installing the Mac software, also I recognized that when choosing none of the Ttitan drivers (only the Intel pkg is selected), a message pop-ups during boot to reboot the system in several languages.
My question still remains how I got the MACOS installed and booting in the VMware workstation application with the same system?

2. Might be that my hard disks are wronlgy setup? What would you recommend to do, and how many partitions would be recommended, as said before, I got one HD on SATA and one on IDE (but I know that connecting the SATA disk MAC would not recognize the hard disk thats when the IDE got in, which would be recognized during MAC OS install from the disk utility installer). Each disk has around 300GB.

Any suggestions, help ;;;;;;;...... best regards and thank you thousand times
PS my scripting skills are very limited, as I am a burned WIN clicker...sorry mates :-) cheerio

Nice Job Rammjet, Thanks so much.

Is there a thread on this site discussing the black screen on boot-up? I've been searching, but nothing found yet.

Sounds like an unsupported video driver. If you installed video drivers when you installed osx, you need to remove them.

I have an abot fality sli board with a e6750 core 2 duo. And a geforce 7600 PCI express card and 4 Gigs of ram my install goes flaw lesly on a sata drive reboots plays the intro video with sound won't detect the keyboard then gos through choosing the layout them when it asks if I want to transfer settings I click no then it freezes for a moment then goes back to the begginging and plays the video again and askes me to choose the keyboard again. Safe mode wont fix it either. I can't get past this it makes no sense how do I get past this?

I have Kalyway Leopard mac Osx 10.5.1 installed on my PC and then a few months after was gifted a macbook pro. And I'm trying to get the 500gb HD that i used to install leopard back so I can use it on my PC, but I cant get it to detect in windows. any help would be great. Thanks

windows can't read HFS partition. you'd have to use a third party software like partition magic to read the mac os partition..

A better program would be MacDrive.

This patch also worked for me, on OS X 10.5. (Leo4All v2)