Issues With Mac OS X Tiger

[Adamantinus]

Hey again,

 

I've finally got Tiger running to an extent. I'm having issues with a number of things, I'll outline them all here. I don't expect all of them to be solved as I've asked similar questions before and nobody has been able to answer. I've looked all through the wiki and googled, and solved a few problems like audio and LAN, so these are my problems:

 

1. My wireless MX3100 keyboard and mouse randomly stop. They don't stop together, even though they both interact with the same base unit, one will go out first, like the mouse will stop but I can still type, or the keyboard will stop but I can still move the mouse. I downloaded USB Overdrive because I read that might help, but that leads me to my next problem:

 

2. .pkg Installers hang as soon as I open them. The window comes up, and I get a rainbow spinning wheel. I've sat them there for aaages, it just keeps spinning and the Finder says they're not responding. This has happened also with the iTunes 7 .pkg installer, so it's not an individual broken .pkg thing.

 

3. On some boots, the Finder will hang for a long time if I try to Get Info on something. It does eventually come up. Spotlight also hangs sometimes. These may have something to do with the next problem:

 

4. CPU-Z says my CPU, an Athlon 64 3200+ Venice Socket 939 has SSE3, but neither the Mac installer nor the actual install has recognised that it does. They both just say SSE2. I've tried to look for SSE3 patches, but I've found things that don't actually fix my problem.

 

5. I installed the MacVidia drivers, which work fine, and I'm just wondering if it is correct that my PCI-e Leadtek 6600GT does not have support for Core Image or Quartz Extreme. Is this normal, and if not, is there a patch? On a side note, can I make it so that when I boot, the login screen runs at 1280x1024 and not 1024x768? Once I log in, the resolution is correct, but the login screen is out of native, which makes my monitor flash up a warning sign in front of the log in screen telling me it isn't running at native.

 

6. It hangs when I try to restart. I found something that said it would solve this, but I've lost the link. It also crashes to the login screen when I select About This Mac. I reckon I found a fix for this on the wiki, but lost the link for that too.

 

7. I get an error on boot about a VIAATA kext that was apparently installed improperly. I assume this has something to do with my SATA hard drive not being recognised, what patch should I use to resolve this?

 

I don't expect all of these problems to be solved, but I imagine that a few of them can be solved. Here are my system specifications:

 

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice Core Socket 939

Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI

GPU: Leadtek 6600GT PCI-e

RAM: 2x 512MB Corsair Value-Select RAM

PSU: Antec TruePower 2.0 430w

 

Hard Drives: 250GB SATAII Samsung 7200rpm HDD, 8mb/s cache, 120GB IDE Western Digital 7200rpm (Mac OS X on the IDE, Windows and NTFS/FAT32 partitions on the SATA)

 

Any help would be much appreciated. Further info can be provided if necessary.

[Adamantinus]

I found and ran the maxxus AMD Enabler patch, now About This Mac displays for a second, then crashes. Nothing else has been solved.

 

I downloaded and ran USB Overdrive, it has not fixed my mouse and keyboard problem. I can fix the installers by running under Rosetta. I thought this was impossible for SSE2 only CPU's, does this mean Mac OS X acknowledges my CPU is SSE3 capable, even if it doesn't say it in System Profiler?

 

I also found I had a problem with Spotlight chewing up my CPU usage, but I fixed that one soon after I realised by simply removing Spotlight.

[Adamantinus]

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