five Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 I have just discovered this yesterday and I went out and got a new hard drive (160gb - Best Buy was having a sale). I have got it working okay (in safe mode), using the tutorial here. At first it was really really slow, but I renamed AppleTPMACPI.kext to AppleTPMACPI.kext.old (from within XP using MacDrive). That seemed to speed things up a bit. I then installed Maxxuss 0.5c and was able to run iTunes from within Safe Mode. Even with these successes, I still can't boot into regular mode. It goes to a green screen (GSOD) that says to power off or restart the computer. A few particulars about my system (according to CPU-Z): CPU: 2.53 GHz P4 (SSE2) Motherboard: Gigabyte 8IPE1000P (BIOS Fa) Video: ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Memory: 512 MB DDR DVD-R: Pioneer a104 (seemed to be causing problems earlier._ A few notes from along the way: 1) Originally I had the new hard drive going through a PCI adapter card, now it is going through the mobo. It didn't boot at all through the pci card. 2) One of the errors I was getting had to do with the dvd-r drive. The last -v statement before it goes to the green screen says vmode (I think, it's been a few hours ago). A few general questions: 1) Is it possible to have some way to boot separate hard drives, besides going through the BIOS everytime? (Actual hard drives, not partitions.) 2) How can I use all 160gb from the hard drive, right now it shows up as 6gb in MacDrive and as a 'bad' in Partition Magic. 3) Can I get Photoshop or the Office suite running (with SSE2)? [Yes I have tried searching, but it's been a bit overwhelming and I am just hoping for a little help, a point in the right direction.] Thanks to all that have made this possible. I can't wait to get this up and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjz Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 This is the same for me always please reboot in regular mode. We need something like msconfig or the space bar startup in os 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekylypse Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Heh.... You need to boot into safe, or single-user mode and Remove any of the files that have ATI in them within the following directory: /System/Library/Extensions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjz Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Ok. I will do that to but, I have a geforce 4 mx 4000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueScreenOfTOM Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Office suite runs fine with SSE2. I purchased 2004 and it works wonderfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
five Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 I will give the ati tip a shot. Any ideas about maximizing the 160gb hard drive? If I were to add a second partition on it, how would I know where to start it and begin it. (If that makes sense.) In Partition Magic it just shows up as a bad drive, even though MacDrive recognizes it okay, just the fact that it only shows up at 6 gigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Ok. I will do that to but, I have a geforce 4 mx 4000 For you, try removing the Geforce drivers in the extensions folder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fra Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 You should also remove the two CHUDPerfs kexts (more or less that's the name) They are known to crash the kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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