MasterBeta Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 I have an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, Nvidia Geforce 8800GT, and a Gigabyte mobo. I installed 10.6.2 vanilla, and everything worked fine. However, after upgrading to 10.6.3, I have applications frezing within minutes of using the OS, with one app hanging at a time, wit the dock and menubar being unresponsive too. Has anyone else had this problem and/or know of a solution? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goron Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 I have an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, Nvidia Geforce 8800GT, and a Gigabyte mobo.I installed 10.6.2 vanilla, and everything worked fine. However, after upgrading to 10.6.3, I have applications frezing within minutes of using the OS, with one app hanging at a time, wit the dock and menubar being unresponsive too. Has anyone else had this problem and/or know of a solution? Thanks! Yes, same problem here on sys in sig. Safari crashes 5-10 times unexpectedly and especially Diablo2 just freezes without a mean. Besides that it broke dvi/hdmi support ... think i´ll revert to 10.6.2 which was fully functional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterBeta Posted April 27, 2010 Author Share Posted April 27, 2010 Yeah, I guess I will too. Weird thing is, I put the install DVD to install 10.6.2 again and I can't boot it unless I boot in safe mode. It worked before! But now I get a kernel panic unless I boot in safe mode (the DVD, not the OS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Make a note of your BIOS settings, then do a CMOS reset (refer to your motherboard manual). Put your BIOS settings back the way they were, then try booting again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadgetsboyj Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 It might be the fact that 10.6.3 comes with AppleHPET.kext which messes up some systems. I erased mine and mine works great now. Hope I helped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 AppleHPET.kext has been in OS X since 10.4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadgetsboyj Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 AppleHPET.kext has been in OS X since 10.4. Yes, I know that but I'm just saying that it is replaced if it was deleted when you update to 10.6.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterBeta Posted April 27, 2010 Author Share Posted April 27, 2010 Well, the CMOS reset got me to be able to boot from the DVD and install OSX again. Thanks! Now, however, I seem to be having an issue with EFI strings that I wasn't having before.. I'm only getting one resolution in the System Preferences> Display, and my second monitor isn't being recognised. Any idea? EDIT This is interesting, and I'm sure is causing the problem... According to the System Profiler, my graphics card is recognised as an ATI Radeon HD 4890 - which it isn't, it's an Nvidia GeForce 9800GT. Let me mess around with the EFI strings some more... EDIT 2 Okay, whatever. I couldn't get anywhere with the EFI strings. I installed NVinject and now resolution and dual monitors work correctly, but QuartzExtreme isn't enabled. What should I do about this? EDIT 3 Just in case anybody else runs into this, I figured i'd update it again. After REMOVING NVinject, without changing anything else, the EFI strings magically worked (as in, they were there, I installed NVinject, leaving them there, and then removed NVinject). Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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