on half the way to success, but stuck: nForce 790i, ATI HD 3650

[axelfr74]

Hi all,

 

I'm trying on getting MAC OS 10.5.6 running on my system:

 

- Asus Striker II Extreme (nForce 790i)

- ATI HD 3650 (extra purchased for this job)

 

So far I got the system (iPC OSx86 Universal 10.5.6) running. The chipset, USB, sound and network drivers do their job, the system is booting fine. But...all I'm getting in the end is a graphical light blue desktop background screen and a mouse pointer. I'm waited several minutes but nothing happened after this. The system itself is running (no freeze), when doing key strokes a "beep" wave is played (so sound is working fine).

 

And now...any idea?

 

Thanks!

[axelfr74]

Hi, problem solved:

 

I booted sucessfull with "-x", installed the driver for my HD3650 from this thread and after a reboot all worked fine.

 

And some more (solved) issues:

- I had to deactivate the onBoard IDE controller because the boot precedure freezed with a PCI-something error (so I guess booting from an IDE drive can be tricky)

- I had to install the 10.5.5 Seatbelt.kext driver over the 10.5.6 version because of kernel panics when installing packages.

- my external Creative USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 soundcard is working fine (out of the box - I was amazed), but from time to time I'm getting an USB Audio kernel panic...so unplugging when not needed and connecting again when listening music was the "solution"

 

So mostly all is fine and I can start developing games for the iPhone . Thanks to this board. :-)