T. Payne Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 XPS M140 Processor: Intel Pentium M 740 (1.73GHz) - 770 (2.13 GHz) OS: NONE YET Memory: 512MB SDRAM standard, expandable to 2GB Hard Drive: 100GB Optical Drive: CD/DVD Burner Graphics: Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 900 - THIS HAS BEEN THE SOURCE OF MUCH GRIEF Wireless: Intel PRO Wireless 2200 (802.11 b/g) or 2915 (802.11 a/b/g)XPS M140 OK this is what i gather: My Processor would put me in the SSE2 Catagory My Video Card makes me wanna jump off bridge Dell Bios limits me from Editing bios to enable AHCI I have DVD KALYWAY_LEO_10.5.1intel_SSE2_SSE3 ********************************************* This is what i have tried...: F8: vanilla -v ... vanilla -v -x -------Result, it reboots shortly after beginning to load -s -------------- takes no to where i get a "SAM Multimedia: READ or WIRTE failed" blah blah and i get singleuserlogon -sh-3.2#: cant do {censored} -v --------------- i get pretty far in then it hangs -v -x ------------- i make it all the way to the OS X install screen and it hangs on the Choose Language Screen, I choose my lang click the button to move on and the cursor starts with the spinning and thats as far as i get I have tried the Jumper trick and its not helped for me. ******************************************************** I realise there are already several posts on this forum with these types of questions... i have read them, tried their solutions, and nothing... with the screen hangsing here theres a few posts with this problem and no solution has been found... so I ask everyone to help me out here... I tried to one pin jumper from 6 to 11 I did not try to 2 jumper I do not have a external monitor to use so i need a work around I am thinking that mabyee theres a way to start the kernal to work in SSE2mode only? But I just dont know how Any and all Help would be Appreciated... Also be advised Again that i Have read all through this forum to try to find a solution myself and i have tried many of the answers I am sure come to your minds... Just wanted to throw that out there again Here is a Pic of where it freezes on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamikaze Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Dude I had the same problem and got tired. I got my old SSE2 to a kid and bough myself a cheap MSI Wind. It's the best OSX laptop I ever had, it work 99%, it's light and cheap ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T. Payne Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 I got it finnaly... I used: -v -x -f cpus=1 I also had the 1 wire jumper from 6 to 12 But now once inside OS X it wont do much of anything, when i try to preform an opperation it mostly stays on the beach ball of death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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