whitethunder Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Ok well I installed a dvd with 10.4.6 on my machine last night as per the guide located at http://www.profit42.com/index.php/2006/05/...ndows-computer/ All was fine, installed OSX with no prob, but after the install I decided to install the macvidia install package as I am using an nvidia gfx card and the only avaliable res was looking weird on my monitor. What a mistake. After the reboot, if I let osx load normally I get a message on my lcd monitor that the input is out of range, it tries like 84 Hz, 106 Hz and 116 I believe and fails each time. I have done a little searching and I when I try to boot in single user mode ( -s ) It hangs on this message (I wrote in pencil so I may have written something down slightly incorrectly): /root# USBF:52.436 Apple USB OHCI (0x2cfd000) /start OHCI will be unloaded across sleep :52.449 USBGeneric Hub@1 (0x2000000) Like I said it hangs there I let it sit there for an hour a few times and nothing. Is there something else I can try to get back into the OS, I really want to use it at home since I just started using it at work. Thanks guys BTW, I dont know if this makes a difference but my hardware is listed below: AMD 64 3200+ DFI NF4 SLI-DR Mobo (Using Onboard Sound) eVGA GeForce 7800GT 2*512 MB OCZ RAM 320 GB WD PATA HDD Logitech USB Mouse and Keyboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitethunder Posted October 8, 2006 Author Share Posted October 8, 2006 well after 2 more install attempts and 2 new reinstalls of osx I cant for the life of me get the macvidia drivers to work all I really want is a resolution over 1024*768 on my 1680*1050 widscreen monitor.... any thoughts ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 any thoughts ?? Macvidia has a forum for solving Macvidia problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitethunder Posted October 8, 2006 Author Share Posted October 8, 2006 yeah I was more wondering if there was away to just get a new resolution more than anything... I dont want to touch those drivers again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Try booting with F8 and at the prompt type: ?video This will display the VESA resolutions available to you. Select one of the resolutions and type it at the prompt like this (with the quote marks): "Graphics Mode" = "1024x768" Keep doing this until you find one that is acceptable (but maybe not optimal). If you find one you can work with, go to the boot.plist file and add the following: <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1024x768</string> (or whatever resolution you choose) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitethunder Posted October 8, 2006 Author Share Posted October 8, 2006 Try booting with F8 and at the prompt type: ?videoThis will display the VESA resolutions available to you. Select one of the resolutions and type it at the prompt like this (with the quote marks): "Graphics Mode" = "1024x768" Keep doing this until you find one that is acceptable (but maybe not optimal). If you find one you can work with, go to the boot.plist file and add the following: <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1024x768</string> (or whatever resolution you choose) nice! thanks man ill try er after iTunes finishes importing my 30gb of music over the network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitethunder Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 ok sry havent gotten back but 1280*1024 works grea but I cant save that <key>Graphics Mode</key> <string>1280x1024</string> tothe file, I even changed the permission ot read and write, any ideas ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=197676 Be sure to run Disk Utility and repair permissions on your OSX partition to fix anything you might have messed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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