richard99uk Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 Hi there. I've been working on with Final Cut Pro on a dual G5 for over a year now, and I am going to be leaving the country soonish, and with Macs going Intel, and it being expensive to send the computer with me, I figure I should cash in on my G5 now and wait for the next thing. I have a PC I would like to get OS X running on, and it's kind of a mixture of reasonably okay hardware, and reasonably old stuff. I installed OS X 10.4.4 on it, and the installation went fine -- rather nippy actually. The problem is when I get into OS X. Everything works until it gets to the registration screen, where it gives me screen below. I suspect my video card is too old for OS X to handle, because the problem doesn't arise until OSX has loaded and the welcome screen with all the translations of 'hello' is about to load. I'm wondering if someone knows of some trick, some drivers or some hardware I can get so I can get my PC up and running OS X with Final Cut Pro. I realize I'm probably having to go buy some hardware to get both my sound and video working, so if there is no software solution, as I suspect, I would greatly appreciate some buying advice for something that would just get what I need for FCP working, so I don't end up shelling more than I need to. Many thanks. Any help is much appreciated. Specs: Pentium 4 2.4 (SSE2) Aopen AXP4PE Motherboard 1 GB RAM 2 x 120 GB hard disk + 1 x 400GB ATI Radeon 6800? DRR 64 Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Platinum Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19972-os-x-on-my-pc-what-do-i-need-to-change/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 Yeah, you really need to be in verbose mode, so you have some idea what it's telling you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19972-os-x-on-my-pc-what-do-i-need-to-change/#findComment-131318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard99uk Posted June 17, 2006 Author Share Posted June 17, 2006 Thanks pal. I will try booting into verbose mode, but I don't have an Apple keyboard right now. is there any way I can get around that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19972-os-x-on-my-pc-what-do-i-need-to-change/#findComment-131320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 I meant to respond, but OS X crashed, so I couldnt. That's what I was gonna tell ya (above) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19972-os-x-on-my-pc-what-do-i-need-to-change/#findComment-131327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard99uk Posted June 17, 2006 Author Share Posted June 17, 2006 Okay, I'll give that a go and see what's going on. Thanks to both of you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19972-os-x-on-my-pc-what-do-i-need-to-change/#findComment-131343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 ...and speaking about hardware changes, you definitely have to get a better video card. I'm pretty sure you will never be able to run Final Cut Pro with that card. Also the Creative audio card will not work so better have a mobo with onboard sound... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19972-os-x-on-my-pc-what-do-i-need-to-change/#findComment-131345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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