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Hi everyone,

 

I have used this great forum to find a working distribution, I managed to install iDeneb 1.4 with apparently all the correct kexts as it in stalled and loads into OSX every time.

 

It then proceeds to work for a while(a few minutes usually, but has once worked for over an hour) and then it seems that under no particular pattern it will just freeze and I have to shut down and restart.

 

I have tried using -x (I think) and loaded the Mac equivalent of safe mode and that worked absolutely fine, so I assume that in fact there is a problem with one of the Kexts.

 

I am new to OSX and thi whole OSx86 scene so I have no idea where to even start.

 

How can I tell if the drivers I have installed are correct, and if they aren't how do I replace them with correct drivers?

The wireless driver doesn't seem to work when I have security enabled, but with security disabled I can browse the internet without problems.

 

If anyone could help me work out what the problem is byt telling me where to look and what to look for I would really appreciate it!

 

Here is what I have:

 

Acer Aspire 5102WLMi Laptop

CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-50 1.6GHz - Displays as "1.6GHz Intel Core Duo" under 'about this Mac'

Chipset:

Northbridge - ATI Xpress 200 (RS480) rev. 10

Southbridge - ATI SB400 rev. 80

RAM: 4Gb DDR2 400MHz - All is recognised under 'about this Mac'

HDD: 120Gb Dual booting with Windows 7 - Windows 7 still works fine.

Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 (256Mb RAM assigned) - Works but only at 1024x768

Wireless: Atheros AR5BMB5 - Works with no security

Sound: Realtek - Works but shows 'no audio device' in system profiler.

 

I can't think of anything else that might be useful, let me know if more info is needed though!

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

One more thing, is it safe to do a software update? I've done a scan and there are a few updates for AirPort, along with an update to 10.5.8.

 

Should I do them? Should I run all updates? Are there any that I should always avoid?

 

I have just tried sleep, and that doesn't work either.

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