Shardsofaperture Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Well, long time reader, first time poster... I've used Apple and OS X for about 4 years now. First bought a mac mini with a g4 which still works, I loved it (still do, love it) and then in November of 2006 I bought my first Macbook pro when I was in Chicago. Well, the notebook (not laptop for those of you who may have ever made the mistake of putting on on your lap *OW!*) went the way of the dinosaurs, which I suppose is my fault, I wasn't kind to it, though not by choice (It survived a winter of subzero weather use outside by necessity of course, was used in an auto shop for a few months, lugged around a college campus months at a time getting 8+ hours use a day). Well, when my workhorse finally died, I had two choices, eat less for awhile and buy another mac, or settle for a laptop that just, well, isn't an Apple. I chose the latter, but was hopeful, remembering the talk of OS X on pc when Apple first made the Intel switch. I went to the local Best Buy, and for about $700 I picked up a 17" Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7802 (which I think may be the only one in existance, seeing as how I can't find information on it anywhere except a little piece about bios updates on Toshiba's support site). Specs are: Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7802 Processor: AMD Turion64x2 TL-58 1.90ghz (Dual-core I Believe) Ram: 2 GB HD: Toshiba MK1637GSX ATA HD Graphics: ATI Radeon X1200 Series Networking: Atheros AR 5007EG Wireless Realtek RTL8101E PCI-E NIC (NDIS 6.0) Audio: Realtek HD Audio The very first thing I attempted to do when I got home was install OS x from the first AMD build I saw (not sure what it was, this was back in February I believe). No luck, tried playing with the bios from guide I saw on Lifehacker (again I BELIEVE, straining my memory!). Well, no luck, which I'll get in to a little later. Feeling down about no OS X, I reluctantly tried XP to no avail, this Vista ready machine really meant Vista only, I couldn't find drivers that would work with half of the hardware, and being a seasoned Mac user, well, I lost much of my Windows workaround knowledge. Well, about a week ago, a friend of mine got her shiny new MBP and I caught the bug again, I wanted OS X. There have been some major changed since so I've seen, new builds, better understandings of how this stuff works, though not for me so much, I still barely have my feet wet. Tried two more builds, LawlessPPC-Leo-10.5.4-Phenom&AMD, and Leopard-10.5.2-AMD-EFI-Rev2 from Zephyroth. Neither of which worked, It would either just hang with the disk stopping it's spin during the gray Apple bootload screen, or after ACPI:System State [s0 S3 S4 S5] (S3) in verbose. I attempted to change the bios, but I have an issue that there is NO advanced options for nearly anything that I can find, in the bios menu, even in the "Advanced" tab there is only maybe four options, and the only option I see that may be relevant to any of my endeavor maybe the "Enable/Disable Hardware Virtualization" which I have tried both on and off. I'm at a total loss, I've searched the forums, as for my hang I read about changing out the AppleAPIC and APPLESMBIOS kexts which I did then reburned both using Transmac. Other than that I don't know what to do. I don't believe it is a hardware issue (though I suppose at this point it would give me closure, unhappily I might add). From what I read after I used CPUID, I think my Processor is alright to use, I really think that it may be a bios issue, I have V1.40 from Toshiba dated 2/25/2008. I've attached the full readout if it'll help someone help me, but in short.... Core Speed 1895.3 MHz (9.5 x 199.5 MHz) HT Link speed 798.0 MHz Stock frequency 1900 MHz Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 cpuz.txt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121059-toshiba-laptop-the-seemingly-unwinnable-fight/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue1980 Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Good luck, it seems toshiba hardware is a serious problem for OSX for some reason. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121059-toshiba-laptop-the-seemingly-unwinnable-fight/#findComment-856765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Hey man, I've got a Toshiba laptop with pretty similar specs. If yours is like mine, having an ATI chipset, you might as well forget about OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121059-toshiba-laptop-the-seemingly-unwinnable-fight/#findComment-856767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardsofaperture Posted August 14, 2008 Author Share Posted August 14, 2008 Hey man, I've got a Toshiba laptop with pretty similar specs. If yours is like mine, having an ATI chipset, you might as well forget about OS X. BLAST! well, maybe someone will come out with a miracle build that'll take care of it. I mean hey, a few years ago mac on any pc was unheard of right?? grrr, I've caught that too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121059-toshiba-laptop-the-seemingly-unwinnable-fight/#findComment-856783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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