sbrungardt Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 I'm baffled. I just installed the 10.4.7 version of JaS OS, with the appropriate packages from the installer, and it boots up fine. My system is an HP dv8000t, with an Intel Duo Core 2.86, a gig of RAM, and OS X is being installed on a 20 gig partition out of a 100 gig drive (WinXP and Ubuntu are on the other two partitions). I'm using Acronis OS Selector as my boot manager, which can then boot to GRUB, or directly into XP or OS X (the Darwin loader seems to get bypassed). Each OS runs natively. I think my processor is SSE3, but I'm not 100% sure about that. However, while I'm in OS X, the system pauses every fifteen seconds or so. It remains paused until I move the mouse, wherein after roughly 3-5 seconds the system picks back up where it left off. What's worse, when I installed the Macvidia drivers, when the system pasued, instead of picking back up where it left off it went to sleep. When I tried to wake it from sleep, the system would attempt to wake, and yet stay in sleep. After a hard reboot, I can get about 15-20 seconds of time in OS X before it sleeps again. I've checked the activity monitor and nothing major is eating up the processor power, memory, or swap file space, and I can't seem to find the AppleTMPACPI.kext file in /system/library/extensions. Also, since I can't seem to access the Darwin boot loader, I can't boot with the platform=X86PC option, though I'm not even sure if that's the right thing to do for this. Any ideas about where to begin? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
imrazor Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Not sure this'll help, but you could start with this: ACPI Driver Link If it's going to sleep for no apparent reason, your hackintosh might have a power management problem. I've never seen a problem like your describing, on my rig or any real mac. It's at least a place to start... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/#findComment-212165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 To specify boot options, you have to get to a command prompt. When OSX boots, first the screen turns black and the goes to grey with a spinning icon. Just as soon as you have selected OSX in your bootloader, and the screen turns black, start tapping the F8 key quickly and repeatedly until the command prompt appears. If entering the platform=X86PC option doesn't help, try disabling one of the cores in the processor by using the option cpus=1. It is not uncommon for a Core Duo processor to have "stutter" and require that a core be turned off. When you find a boot option that works, you can add that option to the Kernel Flags parameter in the boot.plist. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/#findComment-212172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbrungardt Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 Thanks for the quick reponses. Tried both of the boot options, along with installing the new PowerManagement.bundle file. While I now have a nice battery icon in my menu bar, the pausing still happens. One thing I noticed, which may help, is that just before I regain control of the system after a pause, one of the hard disks I have makes very brief noise. The noise sounds like it's trying to read or write something, so nothing that sounds like bad hardware. The drive in question, I think, is a 100 gig NTFS partition. Maybe it has something to do with the system trying to cache an index on that drive, or something else related somehow? Is there a way to tell OS X not to mount any other volumes than its main volume on boot? I'm open to any suggestions. This guy's having similar problems: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=30373 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/#findComment-212384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbrungardt Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 UPDATE: Okay, so I yanked out the 100 gig hard drive that I thought was making the noise, and found that the system still made the noise, and the problem didn't change. The only other part of the computer with moving parts in that area is the DVD+/-RW drive. Does anyone know of a way to disable this on boot? or maybe it's a driver problem - is there a place I can look for drivers for this? It's a Lightscribe drive, if that makes a difference. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/#findComment-212600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbrungardt Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 UPDATE: Okay, I checked the system.log, and found the following problem: Macintosh kernel [0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep. Macintosh mDNSResponder: Couldn't read user-specified Computer NAme; using default "Macintosh-000000000000" instead Macintosh kernel [0]: System Doze Macintosh mDNSResponder: Couldn't read user-specified Computer NAme; using default "Macintosh-000000000000" instead Macintosh mDNSResponder: Couldn't read user-specified Computer NAme; using default "Macintosh-000000000000" instead Macintosh mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface io0 (127.0.0.1); delaying packets by 5 seconds I Googled the problem, and apparently some of the geninue Macs are having the same problem, stemming from a faulty logicboard. I know my motherboard is good, and Ubuntu and Windows run peachy-fine. Does anyone know of a way to disable this check? I already removed the following kernel extensions from boot: AppleCPUThermo.kext AppleHWClock.kext AppleHWSensor.kext ApplePMU.kext AppleThermal.kext And then I did: touch /System/Library/Extensions both from Terminal.app and also from the Darwin command prompt. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/#findComment-212780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruin4life Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 UPDATE: Okay, I checked the system.log, and found the following problem: Macintosh kernel [0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep. Macintosh mDNSResponder: Couldn't read user-specified Computer NAme; using default "Macintosh-000000000000" instead Macintosh kernel [0]: System Doze Macintosh mDNSResponder: Couldn't read user-specified Computer NAme; using default "Macintosh-000000000000" instead Macintosh mDNSResponder: Couldn't read user-specified Computer NAme; using default "Macintosh-000000000000" instead Macintosh mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface io0 (127.0.0.1); delaying packets by 5 seconds I Googled the problem, and apparently some of the geninue Macs are having the same problem, stemming from a faulty logicboard. I know my motherboard is good, and Ubuntu and Windows run peachy-fine. Does anyone know of a way to disable this check? I already removed the following kernel extensions from boot: AppleCPUThermo.kext AppleHWClock.kext AppleHWSensor.kext ApplePMU.kext AppleThermal.kext And then I did: touch /System/Library/Extensions both from Terminal.app and also from the Darwin command prompt. Any ideas? Yo dude!! you may be on to something here! I think this is the reason why we have the "stuttering" problem for the dual core intels! Someone who knows more about this issue read this! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/#findComment-227750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asapreta Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 I had something similar happening here and it was due to my videocard. I changed it and never happened again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/#findComment-227756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbrungardt Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 I had something similar happening here and it was due to my videocard.I changed it and never happened again. What exactly did you change? Just the video card? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/#findComment-227825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbrungardt Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share Posted January 9, 2007 Bump. Anyone have anything new on this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30608-system-pauses-every-15-seconds/#findComment-271796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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