Swaz Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 So I'll start by introducing myself, since I am new to these boards. My name is Bryan, 21 years old, going to school, etc... I'm on an HP laptop, AMD Athlon 3400+(SSE2), 60gb HD, 512 MB Ram, nVidia GeForce 4 64mb. I started by searching the boards for an answer, but couldn't find anything thus far, so here goes: When I first started trying to dual boot (well, the idea was to triple boot [Win XP, OS X 10.4.6, Fedora Core 6]) I created the partitions, and then screwed them up. So, I reformatted, and just created 1 partition for Mac, to see if I could get just that to work. I did the whole linux fdisk in rescue mode deal, but formatted by typing literally '0xaf' rather than just 'af'. I know, stupid right. I then installed OS X on this "empty" partition since it just read the 0 for formatting purposes. I noticed that when I did this install, it only took about an hour to an hour and a half. However, for obvious reasons, I could not boot from this, and also later realized that I had not set my partition to 'active' anyway. So, since this didn't work for me, and I wanted a working operating system, I just repartitioned again, setting up a 20gb NTFS for XP, 15gb af for OS X, 15gb for Fedora, and 5gb FAT32 so I could use it for all 3 OS's. I then got Windows back on and in working order. That is where I am now. Twice now I have tried to re-install OS X on the 15gb af partition. The first time, it did install, and I could boot alright from it, but the install took literally overnight which was a little unheard of. Also, the operating system itself was running at about 1/4 to 1/3 speed of XP, which was extraordinarily slow. But, not only was it operating slow, the system clock was just about as slow as the performance. So, I wiped that partition, and started over. I then tried today reinstalling OS X on the same partition, taking off all of the extra language packs and almost all printer drivers, and leaving on AMD basesystem and SSE2. This had already taken 2.5 hours and it wasn't even half done with the install. So, I aborted the install, and here I am. Any help at this point would be appreciated. I do have access to 10.4.7 if that is what it takes. Is this speed just something to expect with SSE2? Is my video card extremely incompatible, and I need to install the MacVidia drivers? I just don't know how to proceed from here. Thanks ahead of time. -Swaz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36839-excrutiatingly-slow-os-x-1046/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kndol Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 I met the same problem. I installed 10.4.6(Myzar) on a Fujitsu P7120D (Celeron 1GHz, SSE2, XD bits available) sub notebook. And I found OS X reconize FSB as 1.2GHz. However, CPU-Z on XP reports 100MHz(FSB 400MHz). I guess this is the reason, but I cannot solve this problem. With 10.4.8, I know there is a kernel flag - FSB. However, it seems that option is not used for 10.4.6. What can I do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36839-excrutiatingly-slow-os-x-1046/#findComment-262018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Freak Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 If I'm right, you succesfully installed Mac, but very slow, right? Maybe this might help you(Although this is long ago) http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/SpeedBoost Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36839-excrutiatingly-slow-os-x-1046/#findComment-262225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swaz Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 I would love to be able to try that, but when trying to load Mac again, this time it's going even slower. Now when I try to install (which I started at 4:00PM, it is now 9:48) its still says that I have X amount of time left, and in this case, it said 3 hours and 59 minutes, after it already taking 5+ hours. I tried booting it up in verbose mode, and the only things I noticed that looked like they weren't working right were: IOPCI2PCIBRIDGE: bad bridges bus numbering, no room to fix, bailing out. AND IOPCCARDBRIDGE: Invalid sub/cardbus/PCI settings of 0x0. Should I just try 10.4.7/8, and scrap 10.4.6? Or would I get the same experience either way? Thanks ahead. -Swaz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36839-excrutiatingly-slow-os-x-1046/#findComment-262554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 (edited) I would go into the Bios and disable everything extra, sound, network, any type of CPU Speed Throttling system, serial ports, minipci, pcmcia everything...just remember how the Bios was setup so you can change it back. See if that helps you install faster...then go back and turn each one on, one by one and see which is the culprit.... Edited December 27, 2006 by wondergod Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36839-excrutiatingly-slow-os-x-1046/#findComment-262643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swaz Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 wondergod: Thanks for the suggestion, but it's a no-go with my {censored}-tacular Phoenix BIOS. For whatever reason, HP does not want you changing A THING in BIOS, unless it is the Boot order, or testing the HD. Any other suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36839-excrutiatingly-slow-os-x-1046/#findComment-262646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 I'm sure you've tried the whole Platform= business...other than that its usually something in the BIOS....however since neither of those work or are an option...only thing else I can say is... try a 10.4.8 install with semthex's new kernel...thats all I can think of.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36839-excrutiatingly-slow-os-x-1046/#findComment-262935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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