BlackStorm Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Well, I tried the tutorial located here ... http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=517 I followed the first part and was successful. I noticed an increase in performance via xbench. I then restarted a few times and tested each time after i restarted and the setting seemed to have "worn off" as they kept getting slower and slower. I then applied the second part of the tutorial and when I restarted, I could not load OS X anymore. I booted with the -v option and in yellow text I see the following: Failed to load extension com.apple.driver.AppleGenericPCATA. Couldn't alloc class "AppleGenericPCATAPCIRoot" I did get some other errors but I think I fixed them as I booted from the instal disc and through terminal, renamed "IOATAFamily.kext.disabled" back to "IOATAFamily.kext" and all the errors with that one went away. I also deleted "AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext" as I didn't know if that was causing a problem. I also couldn't find the "Extensions.kextcache" and "Extensions.mkext" files after I deleted them, so i can't restore them. I also used disc utilities to repair permissions and such, but still nothing. I also ran the install again as an "update" and hoped that it would replace the missing files with the ones I needed, but that didn't work either. Any and all help on this matter would be great as I really dont want to spend another 6 hours reinstalling everything I have. =( Thanks in advance! System: CPU: P4 2.4Ghz SSE2 Memory: 1024MB DDR HDD: 200GB WD (186GB formated) Video: ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 Pro 64MB RV250 (can't remember if it if DDR or not) Motherboard: Soyo SY-P4I865PE Plus Dragon 2 v1.0 - Dustin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26612-problems-loading-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 You don't need to restore "Extensions.kextcache" and "Extensions.mkext" because they are rebuilt with a successful boot. However, you say you deleted "AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext" rather than restoring the one that was disabled during when following the tutorial. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26612-problems-loading-os-x/#findComment-180547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackStorm Posted September 3, 2006 Author Share Posted September 3, 2006 However, you say you deleted "AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext" rather than restoring the one that was disabled during when following the tutorial. I deleted that and didn't restore it because I wasn't able to make a back-up as that file didn't exist before I started. I'll try to copy it again back to there and see if that helps as it was working fine with that file and then got screwed up with the second file. =/ - Dustin Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26612-problems-loading-os-x/#findComment-180824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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