System won't reboot after working fine. Installed Atheros drivers.

[James Watt]

Hardware: Acer Travelmate 2420

ISO used: JaS 10.4.8 AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3.Defiant diskutil fix.iso

 

Upon installation, everything worked (even the sound) except it didn't find the WiFi. I followed this guide for my Atheros using IO80211Family.kext from 10.3.5 update and my WiFi worked. (Guide: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...p;&do=findComment&comment=238508)

 

The only applications I installed were Adium and Firefox.

 

I decided not to shut my system off, instead I closed the lid and went to sleep. The next morning when I opened the lid the screen wouldn't come back. I held the power button down to turn it on again (guess it went to "sleep") and the OSX Apple logo came up, spinny thing loaded, then it went to the blue screen (which usually yields a log in screen and cursor a few second later) but it just stayed blue. Nothing would happen. I even left it like that for a few hours thinking it would eventually get to it, but nope.

 

I rebooted and held Shift S or something like that (someone told me that would get me into "safe mode"). I was successfully able to get into Safe Mode once, I did a disk repair which said nothing needed repaired, I tried a permissions repair which didn't do much, and I even got into the console and ran fsck on the drive, and it said everything was okay. I tried rebooting and it didn't work, and now I can't even get into safe mode.

 

Now I am in the middle of a fresh install, I am going to try rebooting right off the bat and seeing if the problem reoccurs. Then I am going to add things one at a time and see if anything causes the system to not boot. I was thinking something with the old drivers may be causing it to not work, but if others are using them I don't see how that can be.

 

I also am thinking it may have been caused by the fact that it put itself to "sleep". I am guessing, since this is made for apple hardware, that their hardware sleeps a little differently than normal PC stuff. So I am thinking maybe I should just go into the power settings and disable it from ever sleeping. Any input on this theory would be greatly appreciated.

 

Any other ideas? Thoughts? Comments? I will post if I find the cause, hopefully it's something fixable. Everything ran SO WELL for the one night that I had OSX on it. (Actually, stuff ran WAY faster than it did when I had XP on).

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Edit: I am not doing any dual booting, and this is an Intel mobo/cpu w/ SS2 but not SS3.

 

OTHER EDIT: It seems that after installing a fresh OS, all I did was disable sleep mode and reboot and the damn thing wouldn't boot again! It also isn't listening to me when I press CMD+S before Darwin/x86 appears, but I think it may be because my keyboard requires me to press Alt instead of CMD because I don't have a CMD button.... HELP

Edited February 12, 2007 by James Watt