ace_ventura Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I have a Gateway E4100 Desktop (P4 3.2GHz w/HT 2gb of ram) that i installed the Kalyway 10.5.2 onto, however after the install it tries to boot and goes to the grey screen that says power off your computer with the picture of the power icon overlayed in the background. how can i get osx 10.5 to work correctly on this computer, what am i doing wrong Thanks, Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_ventura Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 I have a Gateway E4100 Desktop (P4 3.2GHz w/HT 2gb of ram) that i installed the Kalyway 10.5.2 onto, however after the install it tries to boot and goes to the grey screen that says power off your computer with the picture of the power icon overlayed in the background. how can i get osx 10.5 to work correctly on this computer, what am i doing wrong Thanks, anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-864178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donw35 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 did you boot with -f option ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-864244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_ventura Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 yes, ive also tried -x and -v Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-864369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volcacius Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Boot with -legacy -x -v and if stops, post a photo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-864379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_ventura Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 it did stop with those options, ill get my camera from home and take a pic and upload it tomorrow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-864385 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_ventura Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 finally got a chance to take a pic, here ya go Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-868452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_ventura Posted August 26, 2008 Author Share Posted August 26, 2008 does this help at all? i took a couple more pix as well if i cut something off that you need. Let me know, thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-869351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_ventura Posted August 27, 2008 Author Share Posted August 27, 2008 bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-870742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_ventura Posted September 3, 2008 Author Share Posted September 3, 2008 bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-878461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basti756 Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 Hi, you're getting a kernel panic because of... well I've no idea. But have you tried turning off hyper threading in BIOS? That might help... Bastian Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-878741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_ventura Posted September 3, 2008 Author Share Posted September 3, 2008 wow that worked, THX, wonder why it doesnt work with HT Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-878752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxjanxx Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 did you get it to run on the gateway computer can you tell me what to do n where to get the mac thingy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-902263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_ventura Posted September 30, 2008 Author Share Posted September 30, 2008 next issue is that it wont shutdown or reboot, it starts to go like it logs off but never shuts down or reboots and i always have to hard reboot or shutdown Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-912517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdyperdy Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 next issue is that it wont shutdown or reboot, it starts to go like it logs off but never shuts down or reboots and i always have to hard reboot or shutdown I have the same computer(Gateway E4100)...What options with Kalyway did you use???PLease respond!!! ~Nerd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/121965-grey-screen-says-power-off-on-gateway-pc-after-install/#findComment-1459411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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