WildCat65 Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Hi, I am newbie on hacintosh stuff. Nevertheless, I survive the kaliway 10.5.1 installation for my Dell Inspiron 530 desktop with Core 2 Quad CPU, dual boot using bcdedit between Vista and Kaliway. Vista remains in its original sata drive, and I added a new sata drive which was partitioned into 2 volumes with MBR. The kaliway is installed in the first partition of the new sata drive. The Vista works fine after installation. When boot into the Kaliway, the screen got frozen after displaying something like "this computer need to be poweroff, ...", instructing to hold onto the power button to shut it down. Anybody here having the same issue? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112998-screen-froze-after-display-poweroffrestart-is-required/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 most probably you selected and installed a wrong video driver, try to reinstall and deselect all graphic drivers. you can install later the good one. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112998-screen-froze-after-display-poweroffrestart-is-required/#findComment-799844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCat65 Posted June 28, 2008 Author Share Posted June 28, 2008 most probably you selected and installed a wrong video driver, try to reinstall and deselect all graphic drivers. you can install later the good one. Many thanks for the pointer. It helps a lot. Just re-install the kaliway, but this time around, I did not customize any install package, except forcing the MBR boot loader stuff, and after the erase->partition->re-installation, it just works: even my wireless card is working. Earlier, these were what I chose in my earlier attempt: Vanilla_Kernel Vanilla_ACPt_fix NVINJECT_gfnvdia_desktop HDA_ALC882(p5w_dh) Realtek_with_1.4.5_UI BOOT_efi_MBR Now I have a different question: the default video is very very low-rez. What is the best way to update the video driver? Are any of those in the Kaliway installer any good? I have NVDIA 8500GT card with my Dell 530. Say, if I use the Kaliway install DVD to install one of those video driver package, and failed, how can I uninstall the bad, and try another? Any pointer will help. I am not sure how to use time machine yet. Thank in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112998-screen-froze-after-display-poweroffrestart-is-required/#findComment-799953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Get Kalyway 10.5.3 Combo update and update your install. This update includes the latest NVidia drivers which support Geforce8 series. After the update install NVKush installer which will enable all resolutions on your card as well as QE+CI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112998-screen-froze-after-display-poweroffrestart-is-required/#findComment-800072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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