Do I need a Duo or will my P4 do me?

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I built my hackintosh from an ASRock 775i945GZ motherboard, with a nice Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.0GHz and half a gig of DDR2 533 ram. I installed first from the HOTiSO DVD, then upgraded with the JaS 10.4.8 combo updater, but the system was so unstable, it'd crash if I just looked at it funny.

 

So I downloaded the full JaS 10.4.8 DVD and installed from that. Seemed Rock Solid, but no ethernet. So I copied the IONetwork kext from the HOTiSO DVD and that gave me back my ethernet and also put in the sound system patch, but got instant instability, so I backed off the audio patch. I've tried to type this message in 3 times from Safari and it keeps crashing. The error is:

 

Exception:  EXC_ARITHMETIC (0x0003)
Codes:	  EXC_I386_DIV (divide by zero)

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   <<00000000>> 	0xffff032a __gettimeofday + 74 (cpu_capabilities.h:219)
1   libSystem.B.dylib			0x9000422b gettimeofday + 43
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation 	0x9083413e CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent + 31
3   com.apple.WebCore			0x94fdc83f QDateTime::currentDateTime() + 11
4   com.apple.WebCore			0x94e115c4 DOM::EventImpl::EventImpl[not-in-charge](DOM::EventImpl::EventId, bool, bool) + 144
5   com.apple.WebCore			0x94e11511 DOM::UIEventImpl::UIEventImpl[not-in-charge](DOM::EventImpl::EventId, bool, bool, DOM::AbstractViewImpl*, long) + 51
...etc...

 

I think I'm having a timing issue because I keep seeing things like this in the log:

 

Nov 27 00:37:42 testos-computer mDNSResponder: mDNSPlatformRawTime: last_mach_absolute_time 793883410000007C
Nov 27 00:37:42 testos-computer mDNSResponder: mDNSPlatformRawTime: this_mach_absolute_time 775E8C340000007C
Nov 27 00:37:42 testos-computer mDNSResponder: mDNSPlatformRawTime went backwards by 31 ticks; setting correction factor to 1023129713

 

Also, all video stuff is stuttery - like 2 steps forward and one step back. Even quicktime jumps back as it is playing. Very strange. Screen savers jump backwards as they are zooming a pic, etc.

 

The question is: What can I do? I ended up downloading FireFox to put in this message - I just couldn't get thru it in Safari.

 

Any thoughts? I read one fix to do with AMD and something the kernel was doing to determine cores and ended up dividing by zero. I doubt that is the case, but would having a duo help, or a 3 gig P4 prescott good enough? Could it be something to do with the clocking - the fact that it seems to be resetting it all the time, so some routines might see the clock as going backwards and get a negative duration, and end up dividing by zero? TIA.

 

Patrick

 

P.S. Also, if the system sleeps, I can't get the video back. The system wakes up and seems like it's doing something, but no screen. It worked before when I booted from the HOTiSO DVD, but I think it was just running in basic VGA mode - no CI QE.