Mand Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Hi guys Recently I bought a laptop, a Compaq CQ50-120EP, and I've been tryin' to run OS X on it, but no success till now. I would like to know if anyone has this laptop with OS X working, or any CQ50 series computer. I tried about 15 different releases of the OS, but no luck =/ Specs: Chipset: nForce 8200 CPU: AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Mem: 3GB DDRII 667 Graphics: GeForce 8200m G HDD: SATA 250GB Specifications at HP.com Thanks for any help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mand Posted January 5, 2009 Author Share Posted January 5, 2009 Come on guys.... anydoby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mand Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 *bump* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pennywisdom Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Hi. I am in the same situation here. I have the cq50-104nr with the same specs. Only difference is that Athlon X2 instead of the Turion X2. Like the OP, I have tried about 15 distributions of this and have tried many triggers such as -x, -f, -s, -legacy, and cpus=1. I have tried Zephyroth, xXx, Kalyway, iDeneb, iPC, and I'm sure there is others. Some begin to load the ktext files and then freeze after the first 2, while others (usually with a combination of the above triggers) will load different ktexts for a while until freezing / rebotting. When it freezes, the last file I see loading is "TMSafetyNet" I believe. I can't remember the exact name but it is something about safety net. If anyone has any ideas or help for this model of notebook, please let me know! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pennywisdom Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pennywisdom Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 please help us?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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McSkywalker Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 I have more or less the same laptop - CQ60 - 120ET. Turion X2 64 3 GB ram Nvidia 8200M G Motherboard - Wistron 303C USB, Sound, Ethernet, SATA and IDE (DVDRW) are controlled by the Nvidia 8200M chipset. There's also another sound card - Connexant HD smart audio 221. I tried Leo4Allv4 and v4.1 The DVD boot stalls after loading the TMSafetyNet kext twice. That seems to be quite irrelevant to the boot process since the kext is about the Time Machine. Also, another thing that seemed quite strange to me was, there wasn't any hardware detection during the boot process. It just seems to load all the kexts for about 3 to 5 minutes until it stalls at the TMSafetyNet.kext. I tried all of the kernel flags that I found relevant, including "maxmem=2048".. I also tried an iatkos leopard DVD (version 1, I suppose) that one of my friends gave me, but it didn't even begin to boot. For now, that's all I have with this laptop. Hope someone comes with better info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thegreat5o Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 If anyone has got anything on this plz let me know what to do im having the same issue as well!!! PLZ Someone figure it out and i will be greatfull for life!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrisJanz Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 you guys need to install it either from an external HD or with VMWare. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1485707 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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