Loki008 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I am installing 10.4.6 on an dell precision workstation P4 3.2ghz SSE3 and HT capable with HT turned off 2GB ram SATA controler 150GB drive When i boot for the first time the grey screen come up and then gloes to the blue background that says Mac OS X Starting Mac OS X ... and there is a status bar with about 1% of the bar filled in. No error message or anything, just complete hang. any sugestions on where to go from here? Thanks also the install process i took was to boot into a knoppix live cd. run cfdisk to partition the disk as a bootable type AF and then loaded the install dvd and erased the disk and installed the OS. I recieved no errors durring this process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 When you installed, right before clicking th Install button, you first clicked the Customize button and selected packages that pertain to your computer. You would have clicked on the little arrow in front of the packages to reveal the individual selections. What did you choose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki008 Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 I think that may be the issue, i just took another look at the custom settings and i specifically remember unchecking the printer drivers, but i dont remember seeing the patch at the bottom. I will let you know if that is the issue. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki008 Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 Ok, i have rerun the install, this time unchecking printer drivers and checking the box for Intel and AMD patch and when it reboots the machine scrolls through a bunch of file loaded messages real fast and then restarts. again no error message or anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCleaner Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Ok, i have rerun the install, this time unchecking printer drivers and checking the box for Intel and AMD patch and when it reboots the machine scrolls through a bunch of file loaded messages real fast and then restarts. again no error message or anything redo install and uncheck everything in patch section except sse3 and combo update if i beleive right. also to spped things up uncheck everythin you wont need Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 checking the box for Intel and AMD patch NO! There is a little arrow to the left of this item. You must click the arrow to reveal the individual packages to be selected. Only choose Intel OR AMD packages. Only choose SSE2 or SSE3 based on what your processor is capable of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki008 Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 It looks like the SSE3 patch was giving me an issue, so i just applied the Intel patch and it seems to be working sans SSE3. Which is odd concidering i know its an SSE3 enabled chip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfox Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 What happens if you choose both SSE2 and SSE3? I did that because I was rushing and everything but iChat seems to work fine. Is there a way to uninstall the SSE2 patch from OSX, or do I have to use the install DVD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick214 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I have the same problem, I have to add -v to the boot options for it to load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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