semthex Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 I encountred some serious hardware damage last weekend. The SSE3 capable INTEL machine of mine, which I used for OSx86 development, died and had to get mainboard, cpu and some other parts to be replaced. This was caused by the sudden death of a faulty powers supply. The supply's sudden death, caused major damage to the whoel system. I just spended a real bunch of $$$ on new parts to get this fixed. The replacement is now back up and running and I am really happy no harddrive had been damaged. The work on SSE2 will now continue, which has been stalled during this loose and I hope I can present you some result very soon. Thanks to all donators, without your support, this has not been possible. The hibernate problem has been already adressed in some test rund with the new system yesterday and seems close to a final soulution now. If you are intrested, join the tests and be one of the first running full functional kernel on your computer. In the same move with SSE2 to be finished, and minor issues to be resolved, I will release the sources for all the stuff accorings APSL (pre Nov. 8th) if it's done. Since sources have very grown up in the past weeks and there is no much space for fixing anymore. After this release I will continue work for the community with some other, already planned, kernel based projects already planned and keep on doing the support for 10.4.8. I hope you enjoy it so far, thanks to this great community! Recent FAQ about 10.4.8 Kernel Development: http://semthex.freeflux.net/nebukadnezar-faq/ More infromation: http://semthex.freeflux.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Sorry to hear your machine crashed. A good lesson: BEWARE OF CHEAP CRAPPY PSUs! Good luck on SSE2 man, we all appreciate your hard work and dedication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaS Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 I hope the 20 euros I donated helps a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarodsix Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 and I am really happy no harddrive had been damaged. backup, backup, backup... (myself I almost never do) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaberSHO Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 IM glad your back up and running Semthex Cant wait for your future work, and i see another donation in your future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orea Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Glad to see ur back matey BaYlisS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Glad to hear you hooked up, still got my fingers crossed for 2 cpus. Tell us what hardware you bought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 23, 2006 Author Share Posted November 23, 2006 Next step will be SSE2, than core/hibernate and hopefully all of you will be statisfied and live in harmony with their install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 24, 2006 Author Share Posted November 24, 2006 Next step will be SSE2, than core/hibernate and hopefully all of you will be statisfied and live in harmony with their install I did a lot of promising work on it yesterday, and wil see what's about it tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johto Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Sounds good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talpaz Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 We're all with you semthex! ;-) Thanks again for your precious work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 24, 2006 Author Share Posted November 24, 2006 Thnaks for the supporting words SSE2 is current main topica nd I am jsut know over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Glad to see you back Semthex we missed you. Its a pity the hardware blew, you saved a few bucks on some cheap psu but in the end it costed you a mobo and a cpu Ok I guesed it was a cheap psu I hope you mentally managed it, i guessed you prefferrably used that money for that mac computer. maybe instead go for a minimac those are cheaper and not that bad (with 1gb mem). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 Yeah back on track and rockin on steady :-) The SSE2 is growing and growing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eto Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 HMM .. more DONATIONS needed here soon , i guess, cant run a os without a good kernel nor get good dvds out out the door Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 semthex - any word on 64-bit support? It would be a nice plus. Not really a requirement in the least but a plus to have it. Sorry to hear about your machine man, I'd die if anything happened to my baby. I seriously think I'd lose my mind without my computer. Such an addict, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 AMD 64bit is a thing which might be adressed in future but will need extensiv changes since the way kernel use 64Bit it's impossible to do so on AMD. I will put it on the list but not for near future. SSE2 and some more or less "smaller" issues will be adressed first. SSE2 is rollin' in big moves down the road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Do you plan on the 4 needed sse3 instructions or do plan all 13? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 This was caused by the sudden death of a faulty powers supply. Sorry to hear about this, but I am glad you had community donated funds to buy replacement parts. Can you tell us what kind of PSU caused this disaster? Or was it some generic PSU that came with a PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 This was caused by a generic cheap grey box taiwan PSU, I just got all PSU in all of my computer replaced to avoid {censored} like that in the future. This might be a warning to all the ppl who are abou tto use such a thing with their expensiv hw... I never encountred any problem before but now it had hit me hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Semthex, I wanted you to know that I've had a very similar experience a few months before. My computer went dead for a while - about two days. Whatever I tried couldn't bring up the machine. I tried resetting the parametric ram, swapping the RAM slots, unmounting all the PCI devices, etc. Nothing happened for about two days. No monitor output, no sound from the machine, simply plain silence. Eventually I went and bought a new mobo, and when I came home, I decided to give my dead looking mobo one more try. BTW, the battery of the mobo stayed unmounted for a night. I inserted the battery, changed the parametric ram's jumper settings to normal and switched on the machine, voila, it was working again. I had to sell the new mobo without ever using it I changed the PSU, strange enough, I never even had a BSOD since then. Maybe that's your case, too. Just wanted to share. :pirate2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 I checked the hardware it's really dead :pirate2: Tried all parts in diffrent enviorments and stuff, the only thing they are just good for is trash bin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Some PSU manufacturers are really irresponsible. Hope it doesn't happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Some PSU manufacturers are really irresponsible. MOST PSU manufactures are really irresponsible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semthex Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 At least those who build the built-in ones from common cases. A good PSU is realyl worth the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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