robertma Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I finally got my installation working on a NForce4 AMD x2 4400 system. The SSE3 AMD option panics the kernel no matter what. I read others using SSE3 with x2 so I don't know whats going on there. I have the nforce network working (but safari crashes), ac97 audio (with quicktime audio issues), macvidia graphics (without exceleration), so I am a bit disappointed. I wanted something to hold me over to I could afforfd to get a macbook or imac but there are some real show stoppers here. SSE3 may help maybe if I could get that working. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertma Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 Things are looking up. Safari seems to be running better since I installed the FLASH update by Adobe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil666 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Must be nice I have pretty much the same setup: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ @ 2412MHz (ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2N4-SLI mainboard) But on initial startup it hangs on black screen where stuff in command line is being loaded and what not. I have installed it 4 times and still the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertma Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 Nothing but a black screen from the getgo? I had that when I needed to make the partition active using diskpart in windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil666 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 No this is after it installs and all the mounting and dual booting apps are set up. Was using acronis for dual boot. It does its inital start up, the first start up ever. Its black screen and shows command line of what files are being loaded..kinda like linux does. But it hangs when trying to load gui though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertma Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 Don't know. I'm using two separate drives and select which one to boot off of with the bios menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicnic Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Can I ask how you manged this? I'm running an AMD 4400+ on a NF4 chipset with a PATA drive. I've used the JAS 10.4.6 install DVD with the SEE2 option checked, and everything seems to install fine. But when I come to boot I get a kernal panic very similiar to if not the same as this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=2466 ANY help would appreciated!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertma Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 That is the EXACT screen shot of the panic error I get if I install the AMD SSE3. I suspect you are in the same boat as me and make sure you don't select the SSE3 option, only SSE2 will work. Thats the reason I started this thread. CPU-Z in windows states I support SSE3 yet when I choose it instead of SSE2 I get the same panic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertma Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 Looks like this fixed my shutdown->restart issue: Fixing the restart function Download a hex editor. Open /mach_kernel (make a backup!) and go to offset 0x8D2BB. Change EB FE 90 90 to B0 FE E6 64. source open a terminal and type cd / ls sudo chmod 666 mach_kernel now Open With a HexEditor change the value en save as new name like as mach_kernel1 open a terminal cd / ls sudo mv mach_kernel mach_kernelOLD sudo mv mach_kernel1 mach_kernel Alternatively, if you don't have a hexeditor handy you can use dd from the command line: cd / sudo -s cp mach_kernel mach_kernel.backup printf '\260\376\346\144' | dd if=/dev/stdin of=mach_kernel bs=1 count=4 oseek=578235 conv=notrunc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil666 Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I may have to try this again with the sse2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicnic Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 That is the EXACT screen shot of the panic error I get if I install the AMD SSE3. I suspect you are in the same boat as me and make sure you don't select the SSE3 option, only SSE2 will work. Thats the reason I started this thread. CPU-Z in windows states I support SSE3 yet when I choose it instead of SSE2 I get the same panic. I already knew that there was problems with SEE3 on AMD X2's, it says so on the list of supported hardware wiki. It recommends using the SEE2 patch and thats what I've been doing all along. I've re-run the installer just now and rechecked all the settings. The following are checked and greyed out: Combo.Update AMD SS2 The rest of are all available to install via Update.. including SEE3 and sata (using a pata drive on NF4). What is VERY, VERY odd is that AMD.Basesystem is NOT greyed out - it looks as though it has not been installed, when I know for a fact I selected it last time. I have just checked it and ran the update - it showed as being installed during the installation progress indicator, but when I went back post-install the damn thing still appears in the list as not installed/installable!? Strange. Does this one need installing as well as the SEE2 patch? I'm very confused! I may have to try this again with the sse2 Don't use SEE3.. Let me know if SEE2 works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertma Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 Which build disc are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicnic Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Which build disc are you using? Jas 10.4.6, you? I also noticed that when I go to "Startup Disc", within the installer, the DVD comes up as an option, but not the PATA drive which OSX (apparently) sucessfully installs to!! Its as though it can't see the disc as a startup disc but has no problem installing to it?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertma Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 same. ignore the startup disc thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicnic Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 same. ignore the startup disc thing. Since we are both running NForce4 AMD x2 4400 systems and using the same 10.4.6 install DVD, wtf am I doing wrong! Are you using sata or pata? Did you do follow a guide? Set partition active? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertma Posted November 1, 2006 Author Share Posted November 1, 2006 Yes, I needed to set the partition active using diskpart. I also had to use pata with the CDROM on the same chain as the slave. No guide. You may want to try the myzar build. It has more drivers from the installation for nforce. I took the nic driver off that and installed it on my JAS built machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicnic Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Yes, I needed to set the partition active using diskpart. I also had to use pata with the CDROM on the same chain as the slave. No guide. You may want to try the myzar build. It has more drivers from the installation for nforce. I took the nic driver off that and installed it on my JAS built machine. *Woooooosh* Straight over my head. Steve Jobbs, I give in. My 2 grand is heading you're way. I'd rather part with the cash than f*** around for weeks on end trying to get a half baked and half working X86 version of you're OS on my PC. It might be clever, but is it realllly worth all this effort?! I've seen enough of Windows Vista to know I'm jumping off the Windows wagon, why am I wasting even more time, where's my credit card.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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