swankyfarmboy Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Hello and good morning. last night I have installed iPC. After I try and boot OSX, the kernel loads and then I am brought to the loading screen with the gray apple. I don't think anything is loading because the wheel below the apple is not rotating to indicate loading. I rebooted into diagnostic instead of -v and right after that, my computer hangs up after that. Nothing is loading under diagnostic, so I think I have a serious problem. I'm sorry if I explained this poorly. Can anyone help me? Thank you for taking your time to read this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144467-ipc-hangs-at-gray-apple-screen/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortos-2 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I have a similar, if not exactly the same, problem. I have installed iPC (with PPF1 and PPF2 applied) to a case-insensitive journalled HFS+ partition. I was able to get to the boot loader’s menu without problems, entered -f -v "Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32@60" and pressed Enter. Booting proceeded seemingly normally, with messages regarding reading something from the partition. Then, for a short moment, the signal from the graphics card disappeared (I believe this was caused by a video mode change), and then the entire screen was filled with black colour and the system stopped. From there, it did not react to anything I did, and the hard disk and CPU activity indicators on the physical computer case did not flicker a single time. So I rebooted and tried passing no arguments to the kernel. The grey screen with the Apple logo showed up and stayed. I do not know precisely if it hanged immediately when this screen was displayed, but the boot proceeded just like the first time, meaning not proceeded at all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144467-ipc-hangs-at-gray-apple-screen/#findComment-1025405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemachaveli Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I had the same problem using iPC. Had to use the smbios patch for 800mhz ram. 100% working system now Hope this helps! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144467-ipc-hangs-at-gray-apple-screen/#findComment-1025429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
swankyfarmboy Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 Thank you for the responses guys, but what is the smbios patch? can you tell me where to get this? thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144467-ipc-hangs-at-gray-apple-screen/#findComment-1025442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemachaveli Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Before you install click "Customize OS" Expand "Patches and Fixes" Then expand "Apple SMBIOS Patches" Loadsa different options! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144467-ipc-hangs-at-gray-apple-screen/#findComment-1025459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortos-2 Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I will try that and report back if it helps, thanks. Edit: my memory is DDR2-400. I have tried selecting the first of the two auto-detecting SMBIOS things but it did not help, and then I have tried selecting the patch for 667 MHz and the bootloader with built-in SMBIOS patching simultaneously, but that did not help either. As this was a somewhat strange combination, I will try to select various individual options when I get a chance to restart my computer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144467-ipc-hangs-at-gray-apple-screen/#findComment-1025477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taum Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Hi, Same problem here with iPC. I have an E6300 mounted on an ICH7 motherboard (asus vintage barebone) with PC5300 DDR2 (so I selected SMBios for 667Mhz), GMA 950 gfx. Any tips on which options I need to check? (I chose ICHx in Chipset, and vanilla kernel, is it correct?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144467-ipc-hangs-at-gray-apple-screen/#findComment-1026734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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