1 year working GA-G31M/GeForce 8400 hackintosh blue-screening

[markbarks]

Hi,

 

I had a working hackintosh for just over a year (built using the method here - snow-leopard-dvd-install-for-g31m-t3672 - graphics card is GeForce 8400 GS). All very happy and low maintenance, until about a week ago when all of a sudden the machine blue-screened without warning. That was the end of the happy days

 

Now I can only get the desktop to appear only in safe mode - without the -x option at startup, as soon as the apple splash screen disappears the blue screen reappears.

 

I've spent a couple of days digging around the log files, starting up in verbose mode, repairing permissions, and rebuilding kext caches. Nothing seems to help, so I was hoping someone might give me a hand.

 

I've attached my system.log and kernel.log below - hopefully this should have verbose output, but there always seems to be more on the screen than in the file (does anyone know why that is? How can you capture everything output to /dev/console?)

 

I'm running these kexts in Extra/Extensions

 

LegacyALC883.kext

NullCPUPowerManagement.kext

OpenHaltRestart.kext

PlatformUUID.kext

Sleepenabler.kext

fakesmc.kext

 

This is the contents of my com.bios.Boot.plist

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Kernel</key>
	<string>mach_kernel</string>
	<key>Timeout</key>
	<string>5</string>
	<key>Kernel Flags</key>
	<string>arch=i386</string>
	<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>y</string>
	<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
	<string>y</string>
	<key>Theme</key>
	<string>bootcamp</string>
	<key>Graphics Mode</key>
	<string>1280x1024x32</string>
</dict>
</plist>

 

 

If there's anything else that would help with the diagnosis, please let me know and I'll get the details straight away.

 

 

system.log

 

Nov 14 19:28:16 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[72] ([0x0-0x1e01e].com.apple.Terminal[227]): Exited: Killed
Nov 14 19:28:16 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 login[229]: DEAD_PROCESS: 229 ttys000
Nov 14 19:28:17 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 loginwindow[30]: DEAD_PROCESS: 30 console
Nov 14 19:28:17 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 com.apple.kextd[9]: Cache file /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Directories//System/Library/Extensions/KextIdentifiers.plist.gz is out of date; not using.
Nov 14 19:28:17 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 com.apple.kextd[9]: Rescanning kernel extensions.
Nov 14 19:28:17 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 shutdown[296]: reboot by marknuttallsmith: 
Nov 14 19:28:17 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 shutdown[296]: SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1289762897 320586
Nov 14 19:28:17 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 mDNSResponder[16]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-212.1 (Jul 24 2009 22:34:12) stopping
Nov 14 19:28:17 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 mDNSResponder[16]: mDNS_Deregister_internal:   51 _kerberos.Mark-s-iMac.local. TXT LKDC:SHA1.B0D06C110A8AFF79B18F0C72B856AB12056B2D7A already marked kDNSRecordTypeDeregistering
Nov 14 19:28:17 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 WindowServer[54]: hidd died. Reestablishing connection.
Nov 14 19:28:17 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 WindowServer[54]: bootstrap_look_ip failed: Unknown service name
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost com.apple.kextd[33]: Cache file /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Directories//System/Library/Extensions/KextIdentifiers.plist.gz is out of date; not using.
Nov 14 19:28:55 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
Nov 14 19:28:55 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** Verbose boot, will log to /dev/console. ***
Nov 14 19:30:23 localhost mDNSResponder[41]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-212.1 (Jul 24 2009 22:34:12) starting
Nov 14 19:30:23 localhost configd[37]: BUG in libdispatch: 10A432 - 1656 - 0x9803
Nov 14 19:30:23 localhost configd[37]: network configuration changed.
Nov 14 19:30:23 Mark-s-iMac configd[37]: setting hostname to "Mark-s-iMac.local"
Nov 14 19:30:23 Mark-s-iMac configd[37]: network configuration changed.
Nov 14 19:30:29: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Nov 14 19:30:29 Mark-s-iMac bootlog[65]: BOOT_TIME: 1289762935 0
Nov 14 19:30:29 Mark-s-iMac com.apple.usbmuxd[50]: usbmuxd-201 built for iTunesTen on Aug 12 2010 at 17:33:03, running 64 bit
Nov 14 19:30:31 Mark-s-iMac /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[55]: Login Window Application Started
Nov 14 19:30:35 Mark-s-iMac configd[37]: network configuration changed.
Nov 14 19:30:35 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 configd[37]: setting hostname to "unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6.config"
Nov 14 19:30:38 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 loginwindow[55]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Nov 14 19:30:38 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 loginwindow[55]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
Nov 14 19:30:38 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 loginwindow[55]: USER_PROCESS: 55 console
Nov 14 19:30:38 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
Nov 14 19:30:39 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 com.apple.fontd[108]: FODBCheck: foRec->annexNumber != kInvalidAnnexNumber (0)
Nov 14 19:30:41: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Nov 14 19:30:41 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[120]): Exited with exit code: 1
Nov 14 19:30:43 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-marknuttallsmith@me.com-SharedServices[125]): Exited with exit code: 1
Nov 14 19:30:52 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 warmd[49]: [fetcher_open_file:936] open("/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64") => -1 (errno: 2)
Nov 14 19:30:52 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 warmd[49]: [fetcher_open_file:936] open("/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_i386") => -1 (errno: 2)

 

kernel.log

 

Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: npvhash=4095
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: 64 bit mode enabled
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 512800 free pages and 11488 wired pages
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 73
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: [SleepEnabler] Registering PowerManagement dispatch table...
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: [SleepEnabler] Calling pmInitComplete()...
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: NullCPUPowerManagement::init: properties=0x3d25dc0
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: NullCPUPowerManagement::start
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=2 Disabled
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=3 Disabled
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: using 10485 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: RTC: Only single RAM bank (128 bytes)
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: netkas presents fakesmc, a kext which emulates smc device
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: mbinit: done (64 MB memory set for mbuf pool)
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: USBF:	0.541	AppleUSBOHCI[0x4249000]::CheckSleepCapability - controller will be unloaded across sleep
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: From path: "uuid", 
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for boot volume with UUID B666CFFF-A20C-3526-A5E3-D18E1EC0BEA7
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/IDE1@1F,2/AppleIntelPIIXATARoot/PRIM@0/AppleIntelICHxSATA/ATADeviceNub@0/AppleATADiskDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/WDC WD5000AAKS-00V1A0 WDC WD5000AAKS-00V1A0/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/SnowLeopard@2
Nov 14 19:30:19 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
Nov 14 19:30:20 localhost kernel[0]: systemShutdown false
Nov 14 19:30:25 Mark-s-iMac kernel[0]: Apple16X50ACPI1: Identified Serial Port on ACPI Device=UAR1
Nov 14 19:30:25 Mark-s-iMac kernel[0]: Apple16X50UARTSync1: Detected 16550AF/C/CF FIFO=16 MaxBaud=115200
Nov 14 19:30:25 Mark-s-iMac kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
Nov 14 19:30:25 Mark-s-iMac kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
Nov 14 19:30:29 Mark-s-iMac kernel[0]: RTL8139::registerEEPROM - Flow Control is disabled
Nov 14 19:30:29 Mark-s-iMac kernel[0]: Waiting for DSMOS...
Nov 14 19:30:32 Mark-s-iMac kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived
Nov 14 19:30:32 Mark-s-iMac kernel[0]: com_apple_driver_RTL8139: Ethernet address 00:17:3f:d0:6b:c6
Nov 14 19:30:33 Mark-s-iMac kernel[0]: {	   10	 41e1} RTL8139::phyReportLinkStatus - ethernet flow control not enabled.
Nov 14 19:30:37 unknown-00-17-3f-d0-6b-c6 kernel[0]: ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out

 

Hugely grateful for any replies in advance!

[Giorgio_multi]

Use the DVI output of the graphic card with a DVI-VGA adapter to VGA input of the monitor.

[markbarks]

Thanks for the reply Giorgio - that looks to have done the trick

 

Just wondering, do you have any idea what might have caused the vga to stop working after a year?

 

Cheers

[dothacker]

did you install something, like updates?

[markbarks]

Erm.. I don't think so - I switched off all updates and am quite careful about that sort of thing. The only change that I can think of in the system's environment is that it happened on the night BST changed to GMT. Seems unlikely I know, but I'm clutching at straws and as a developer I've seen this kind of thing screw many an application!

[Hank61]

The problem seems to be changes in user preferences; the system itself is working, but gfx card output is missing. Have the same problem whilesetting up a new system. If you log in as guest (or a new user account) it works, but without full resolution.