Espada Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Hoping someone can help here, apologies if it is a bit of a newby question. I have installed 10.4.1 on my PC (Athlon 64 3000+ with ATI Radeon 3800 Pro) but when it boots I get the apple logo and after a few seconds a multilingual message saying I need to reboot. After trawling various places it seems it could be either a problem with the SSE2 emulation or the graphics card (apparantly with 10.4.3 you need to delete all ATI* files in the extensions folder. Which of these is more likely to be the problem and how do I fix them if I cannot boot OS X to patch them. I am sure I am missing something blindingly obvious but I just can't see it right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4891-probs-booting-1041/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 At boot you can hit any key to enter some commands, if you enter -v you see verbose output, I bet that ATI kexts are your problem so you can boot with -s option and move or delete all ATI extensions. Ati extensions on 10.4.1 has some problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4891-probs-booting-1041/#findComment-31197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espada Posted November 26, 2005 Author Share Posted November 26, 2005 Thanks for that, just managed to solve the problem in a similar way to what you said. Did the -v and you were right it was graphics files causing the probs so I restarted and used -x for safe mode (is that the same as -s?) found the ATI files, restarted and hey presto everything is working. Thanks again for your help. Now to install 10.4.3 patch... Maybe another day. Mark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4891-probs-booting-1041/#findComment-31214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 -s is Single User Mode (extensions anre not loaded yet, and give you command line mode to do some things), -x is Safe mode (not all extensions are loaded and some are loaded in safe mode) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4891-probs-booting-1041/#findComment-31241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espada Posted November 27, 2005 Author Share Posted November 27, 2005 -s is Single User Mode (extensions anre not loaded yet, and give you command line mode to do some things), -x is Safe mode (not all extensions are loaded and some are loaded in safe mode) Thanks, I was looking for a command prompt way to do it at first, then I came across safe mode and tried it, fortunately it worked. I shall remember -s for next time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4891-probs-booting-1041/#findComment-31437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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