adric22 Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 I installed the new 10.4.8 on a Compaq Evo with a Pentium 4 CPU. It booted from the DVD and went through the entire install just fine. Upon rebooting, it goes to the gray screen with the apple picture and the rotating clock for a while and eventually comes up with a screen that says "you need to restart your computer, hold down the power button several seconds..." I don't know a whole lot about MacOS X. How would I go about troubleshooting this? I've tried rebooting about 4 times, as it says, but always the same message. I do not know if the CPU is SSE2 or SSE3 and haven't been able to find out so far. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42257-installed-fine-but-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Then there were none. Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 What you have is a kernel panic. What you need to do is, press f8 when you come to the darwin boot screen and at the prompt, type '-v' (without quotes), that should give you more info on what the kernal panic is being caused by. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42257-installed-fine-but-wont-boot/#findComment-302008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
reghost Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 is it an evo d510? cuz if it is i dont see why you should get any error. ive done about 12 evos (heheh) and the all work fine minus QE/Ci. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42257-installed-fine-but-wont-boot/#findComment-302033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adric22 Posted February 13, 2007 Author Share Posted February 13, 2007 Interesting.. I tried F8 earlier (just to see if it was the same as Windows) but didn't work.. I tried it again after reading your message. I realized it is very timing sensative.. so I did what you said, and watched all the messages flying up the screen. Last thing it says before it locks is this: mDNSResponder: Couldn't read user-specified loca hostname: using default Macintosh-00000000000.localb instead Does this mean it is a network related problem? it is an integrated Intel 10/100 NIC. I was also wondering about the video card. It uses an Nvidia 16MB AGP card in this machine. I see messages as it is scrolling saying it found an Nvidia card and says "All set, cross your fingers." Is there some way to force a VESA graphcis mode to see if that is the problem? is it an evo d510? cuz if it is i dont see why you should get any error. ive done about 12 evos (heheh) and the all work fine minus QE/Ci. No.. it is older. It is an EVO D5ps. We have a bunch of them around here at the office and I could spare one to try it on. It is a Pentium 4 - 1.6 Ghz, I believe. The thing is, I have the same unit at home (only has the 2.53 Ghz CPU in that one) and I had tried this on it about a year ago. In that case, it booted but I could never get audio to work or much of any apps I tried. so I gave up and figured I'd wait a while and try it again. So here I am a year later and trying it again (albeit slightly different unit) and it works less than before. Now it won't even boot after install. Anyway, I just posted a different reply showing more detail, maybe somebody will figure out the issue. If not, maybe in a few weeks when we get some more Dell units in, I might try again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42257-installed-fine-but-wont-boot/#findComment-302046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarrab666 Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Hello, I'm a newbie and not very teccy... I've managed to run the DVD 10.4.8 and install (is the JaS one) but when it comes to booting I just get a non flashing _ . What have I done wrong? I've got an AMD 64 3000 and ASUS KV8 SE Delux MOBO.... Help... I dont want to have to resort to using windows.... PS sorry for hijacking this tread too! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42257-installed-fine-but-wont-boot/#findComment-302052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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