r3zon8 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I finally got my partitioning issues worked out during the installation and everything finished successfully. Now when the machine is booting, if I let it boot up by itself i see the Gray screen with white apple logo, then it crashes, and tell me i need to restart of power off. IF i hold down shift and force a safe boot, the machine comes up properly. Anyone had this problem? how did you fix it? My Setup: Asus P5W-DH Deluxe Pioneer 111D 2gb DDR2 Jas 10.4.8 sse2/3 v1p install dvd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45866-only-booting-osx-in-safe-modecauses-gray-screen-if-normal/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyghKaR5b Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Yea I have another thread EXACTLY like this. I have to bulldoze through my formatting issues only to find OS X only boots in Safe mode. Anything else causes an infinite loop of screen flashing or kills the video feed altogher. Intel Bad Axe 2 core2duo 2gh ddr2 7900GT Jas 10.4.8 SSE2/SEE3 I think mine is a video card issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45866-only-booting-osx-in-safe-modecauses-gray-screen-if-normal/#findComment-328259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyghKaR5b Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 From apple's website.... Starting up into Safe Mode does three things to simplify the startup and operation of your computer: * It forces a directory check of the startup volume. * It loads only required kernel extensions (some of the items in /System/Library/Extensions). * Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger only: It disables all fonts other than those in /System/Library/Fonts . * Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger only: It moves to the Trash all font caches normally stored in /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/(uid)/ , where (uid) is a user ID number such as 501. * Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger only: It disables all startup items and any Login Items. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45866-only-booting-osx-in-safe-modecauses-gray-screen-if-normal/#findComment-328551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
r3zon8 Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 i installed the applehda .4b package from taruga, and after i rebooted, the machine started booting fine in normal mode. my hackintosh box is working fine now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45866-only-booting-osx-in-safe-modecauses-gray-screen-if-normal/#findComment-328888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyghKaR5b Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 My problem went away sort of. It boots up perfectly, about 50% of the tine, 25% it drops the video connection, the other 25% it gets stuck flashing the cursor and the progress circle. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45866-only-booting-osx-in-safe-modecauses-gray-screen-if-normal/#findComment-330052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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