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Hi, Looking for a bit of help after my Installation of Mac OSX 10.4.8.

 

My Specs are as follows :-

 

Gigabyte 965P-DS3 M/Board

E6400 Intel Core2Duo @ 2.13ghz

2gb Geil DDR2

Nvidia 7950GX2 Video Card

AOC 19" LCD Panel

120gb Maxtor Drive on Purple SATA port

DVD-ROM via IDE to USB Port

 

I have installed JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3 which I downloaded from Usenet. All installs fine with the correct patches for my system.

 

Now when the install reboots and I boot the system I get a screen telling me I need to restart my system using reset button or power button.

 

I reset then boot again using -v command to see the error and get the following screen :

 

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I can start the system using -v -x command which starts the Mac OS in administrator mode but the screen is in 640 x 480 mode, sometimes it starts in 1024 x 768 mode.

 

Did not install the TITAN Patch for Nvidia card as I get the same problem..

 

Can anyone give me any help on what the problem is ?

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I've had nothing but problems with mine which has close to the same specs as yours. The most stable I've had is using the top orange SATA connection and disabling ACHI. This is the only way I can successfully boot. Any other way I had drives disappearing and other issues. I've tried everything to get ACHI to work but it just isn't able to.

Update on this now.

 

Just installed the Titan package from the JaS.10.4.8.AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3 in safemode and rebooted the computer, now I dont get the Kernel Panic. In verbose mode it gets passed the part where it says Cross your fingers ! loads a bit more then the screen goes black and nothing happens. Will not even go into safemode now.

 

Any ideas ?

 

Thanks

 

Kevin

oi Kev,

 

I got the same problem on my system... (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=43299'

I also seem not to be able to use the -x switch?

-v seems to work however I cannot fully boot the system to prevent things from happening.

 

Gonna search a bit further.

Keep ya posted when I found something.

Thanks, that worked perfectly. Had to remove all driver that contained ATI, nVidia, NVDA or GeForce.

 

Does anyone know of drivers that will not cause this issue?

 

EDIT:

 

After removing all graphics associated drivers I tried the following, it allowed me to run in 1280x1024@60Hz

 

Load Natit.kext:

 

sudo mv Natit.kext /System/Library/Extensions/.

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/Natit.kext

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/Natit.kext/

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/Natit.kext

 

This will associated the graphics card with a kext.

 

reboot

 

Next:

 

1. Navigate to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

2. Open "com.apple.boot.plist"

3. Add the following lines below the last entry of "<string>Yes</string>"

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024@60</string>

 

Your plist should look something like the following:

 

***********************************************

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

<key>Boot Graphics</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024@60</string>

</dict>

</plist>

************************************************

 

Finally reboot once more and the grey apple load screen should be running in 1280x1024@60.

 

I hope this works for anyone having problems.

 

-Matt

Edited by matthew.clewell

I have got the system to boot now by removing all nvidia kexts by starting in safemode after a reinstallation.

 

I have not had the Setup screen come up which asks you to setup a User account after installing OSX though.

 

Anyway to make this come up ?

 

Thanks for all the help guys...

 

Kevin

Thanks, that worked perfectly. Had to remove all driver that contained ATI, nVidia, NVDA or GeForce.

 

Does anyone know of drivers that will not cause this issue?

 

EDIT:

 

After removing all graphics associated drivers I tried the following, it allowed me to run in 1280x1024@60Hz

 

Load Natit.kext:

 

sudo mv Natit.kext /System/Library/Extensions/.

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/Natit.kext

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/Natit.kext/

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/Natit.kext

 

This will associated the graphics card with a kext.

 

reboot

 

Next:

 

1. Navigate to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

2. Open "com.apple.boot.plist"

3. Add the following lines below the last entry of "<string>Yes</string>"

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024@60</string>

 

Your plist should look something like the following:

 

***********************************************

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>Kernel</key>

<string>mach_kernel</string>

<key>Kernel Flags</key>

<string></string>

<key>Boot Graphics</key>

<string>Yes</string>

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024@60</string>

</dict>

</plist>

************************************************

 

Finally reboot once more and the grey apple load screen should be running in 1280x1024@60.

 

I hope this works for anyone having problems.

 

-Matt

 

Fine that it works for you. mine is still not working neither with nitat nor with any other driver.

 

dp

 

EDIT: just saw that you running mx 440, mine is 420 and don`t think that the difference is that significant. Are you sure that the kext is loaded properly and associated to your card ? Could you check your system profiler and have a look at the vga card kext extension. Even if I install the nitat the system comes up but it is not loaded, system profiler tells me no kext assicaited.

 

thanks

 

dp

Edited by drpain2006
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