EmSquad56 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Dell Dimension 8250 Intel Pentium 4 2.4ghz, 512mb Ram, all original parts from the factory (Including keyboard). I tried installing OSX86 on my Dell, and after a few tries, I got it to work....but sadly...it froze after a few minutes and then wouldn't boot. I tried to go into the terminal and configure darwin, but every time I try to type something the computer completely freezes. It also freezes when I go into the disk utility and try to name my Mac Partition. Like I said before, I tried it so many times that it finally let me type something, which is the reason why I got OSX86 to run in the first place, but since the failure, I can't get it to let me type again. So I'm basically saying that everything runs smoothly until I try to type. I've spent all day looking for threads on this subject but I have yet to find one.....Somebody please help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stadsport Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Er, did you try a different keyboard? Also IOUSBFamily.kext or whatever the HID kext is (can't remember what it is) might be having some issues. And does your processor support SSE3? What OSX86 distro (lol) are you using? What kernel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmSquad56 Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 I looked up my system and I'm pretty sure that it supports SSE2. I just reinstalled the OSX (JaS10.4.6) and it still freezes up on me. I'm going to try a different keyboard, but I don't think that'll help. I'll let you know. I am also kinda new to this stuff since I got my mac last year and haven't looked back at my Dell ever since. So I don't really know what the "Kernel" and the other thing you mentioned are. Please explain. Thanks for looking into my issue....it's damn frustrating...cause I had it working...and then lost it like Rex Grossman in the superbowl Sidenote: When I did get the keyboard to work, and I was able to get darwin loaded correctly, OSX opened and then said "Please connect a keyboard to your computer" and there was a huge keyboard picture on screen. I just restarted my system and everything was fine OK....I tried a new keyboard and that didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micmac#5 Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 Hello all in the community thanks for all your posts they are like little bread crumbs that helped me to get this far. ps ok some of the advice like a fine meal. My contribution a mere crumb but I hope it inspires other to give it a whirl, I also request some further assistance. I am new to this osx86 thing but I did make some progress installing one of these great experiments. Leopard 10.5.2 iATKOS 2.0i I used that -x -v -f cpus=1 thing to get it all going After everything is up and running the system will work fine for hours sometimes, minutes other times. the computer will just freeze up. Sometimes that little rainbow circle will spin sometimes as well. Please note this is far after welcome hello password login change background play movies ,listen to music yahoo chat and all.. i'm in the operating system i'm beyond the install phase.. The mouse acts very irratic and have to wait for any control over it. when I do get some scratchy control you can move the mouse but can't click on anything I have tried wireless logitec mouse, Microsoft optical mouse and the roller wheel MS mouse well that one just won't work with my install Hardware I am running Wester Digital 320Gig HD 3 partitions 160gig partition for the main OSX program and 2 68Gig Partitions Why you might ask. Well I had to install about 26 time before I got everything working as I mentioned above the community kept feeding me a bit here and there as I ran into challenges moving along Apple Keyboard wired that thin silver one Logitech wireless Laser mouse Model VX something P5N-E-SLI Motherboard Nvidia GeForce Asus branded 8600GTS vidieo yes DVI works and 1680X1050 (it did take some work to get this working, original install was only 1024X768) Nvidia Network onboard motherboard LAN disabled i'm using a realtek cheapy LAN card works great Realtek HD Audio also working great internal motherboard version All usb ports working the ones on the motherboard Power supply 550 to feed that video card yes video card plugged into powersupply 3 Gig of corsair RAM 800MHZ PS by the way I did the install with only 2 Gig installed strange it wouldn't finish the install with the 3 GIG in there It took about 11 of my install attempts to figure this one out... but the buggy freeze thing happens after words with 2 gig or 3 gig installed so i'm not thinking my particular freeze thing is NOT an amount of RAM installed thing.. I'm not sure if it's ok to post an email here so I'll read more into the community rules before I do that.. Hope someone out there can help me with this FREEZE UP ISSUE Thanks for any assistance and time you spend on my challenge good luck to all. Freezing System after all installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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