MacManX Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Hi everyone, First of all, an apology. I'm completely new to OSx86 and although I can find other people with a similar (same?) issue, I can't understand some of the replies (or they don't appear to apply to my hardware). I've created a Boot-132 disk with dsmos.kext and can boot from that, switch to my retail 10.5.0 DVD, and install the OS. I can then successfully boot into the installed OS and get online. I've also used Munky's EFI Boot 6.1 to get this all up and running without using a CD each time. No problems so far! The issue is that I have no video acceleration. I have a 9600GT and if I'm understanding things correctly then I need to install 10.5.5 in order to use the 9600 drivers. I've downloaded 10.5.5 from Apple and installed it, and now my system won't boot. When I use verbose mode, I don't see any explicit error messages. In fact, it appears to fully boot but fails to switch over to the GUI. One post I saw on this forum says that 10.5.5 requires your video card to be up and running properly prior to installation, but I'm not sure how to accomplish that if the drivers themselves need 10.5.5 in the first place. I can still get into safe mode, so I can fiddle around with settings easily enough, but I'm not sure what to do next. Does anyone have any advice? As mentioned I'm very new to this so I'm not yet familiar with all of the tools etc, so please keep that in mind. Thanks for your time. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3 Video: Gigabyte 9600GT 512 MB (Device 0622, Vendor 10de) Thanks again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139676-crash-after-updating-to-1055/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ready4thebreak Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 I too am new and I really don't find updating really to be worth it yet. I can understand in your case for video acceleration, but I've seen MANY more issues with the updates than successful updates. I'm tempted to do it, but I think it's better I don't. You should probably just downgrade the OS. I'm a moron and don't know about troubleshooting an issue like this, so hopefully someone out there can help you. But I have a feeling that inevitably downgrading the only perfect fix. Best of luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139676-crash-after-updating-to-1055/#findComment-989368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnePlane Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 You should try to move the extensions for the nvidia cards from your system folder and reboot so it will go into VESA mode. If that works, you know it's just the device id that needs to be added to your kernel extensions. Maybe this all sounds like technical bla bla to you, in that case, search the forums for information on how to do that and learn a little about how the terminal / command line works. Besides, did you take a look at the wiki on the projectosx86 website? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139676-crash-after-updating-to-1055/#findComment-989425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacManX Posted December 6, 2008 Author Share Posted December 6, 2008 Got it! Thanks for reminding me about the wiki; I'd completely forgotten about it. The trick was to install aquamac's drivers (I'd tried to download them earlier but the server was down) and then install NVdarwin. The system now fully boots and has QE/CI Thanks again for your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139676-crash-after-updating-to-1055/#findComment-989442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnePlane Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Got it! Thanks for reminding me about the wiki; I'd completely forgotten about it. The trick was to install aquamac's drivers (I'd tried to download them earlier but the server was down) and then install NVdarwin. The system now fully boots and has QE/CI Thanks again for your help. Very well it's always good to see people being able to fix whatever they want... It must be so annoying if you wouldn't be able to do that being stuck with a big engine but no way to use it.. Have fun using Mac OS X Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139676-crash-after-updating-to-1055/#findComment-990225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacManX Posted December 11, 2008 Author Share Posted December 11, 2008 I'm getting the hang of it I've managed to get everything working and I'm not aware of a single issue now! I did have a few issues with getting sound to work but that's all sorted out now, so everything's good so far. The new system is much faster than my real Mac too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139676-crash-after-updating-to-1055/#findComment-994792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnePlane Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 I'm getting the hang of it I've managed to get everything working and I'm not aware of a single issue now! I did have a few issues with getting sound to work but that's all sorted out now, so everything's good so far. The new system is much faster than my real Mac too Glad to hear that I had some orders on custom hackintoshes last week, and they sometimes are faster than the real deal (which I like and dislike, I have the G5 Dual 2.0Ghz; but an even faster Mac OS X.. !). However, getting to know how to change little bits to get stuff to work also teaches you the ins and outs of some of the Mac OS X subsystems which is a very good thing Have fun! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/139676-crash-after-updating-to-1055/#findComment-994929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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