luis.abs Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Hi everybody, ok I searched the forum up and down for about 3 hours now and could not find a solution for my problem so I am sorry but I had to start a new topic. Ok here is the PC config (Its not mine (I have a G5) so bear with me): Sony Vaio P4 2.6 GhZ 1 Gig Ram 80 GB ATA 512 MB PC-2700 DDR + 2x256 MB PC-2700 DDR (came with the machine and working fine on XP) GeForce4 MX440 64MB USB 2.0 IEEE1394 (iLink/Firewire) I am trying to install the DVD version of OSX 10.4.8 JaS AMD/Intel SSe2 SSe3. Installation works fine, verbose mode (-v) does not show anything unusual as far as I can tell. After any install I tried so far, the machine reboots and I can see the starting screen (grey apple with spinning wheel). After my first install I got a total crash (reboot your machine.. blah) So I tried turning off some things in the bios (Modem Controller/Memory Stick controller/etc.) but no success. Install options: anything but the AMD support. After second install spinning wheel stopped after a while but HD was still loading and I could even hear the introsound from the OSX intro but can not see desktop or anything else!? Install options: Anything but AMD support, Titan/NVIDIA ATI Support disabled Third install just borught me back to total crash while loading. Install options: Bare install with Intel support only Now my question is what am I doing wrong or what could be the problem with this install? Looks to me like a driver problem. Probably GFX Card? I read that these GeForce MX cards are troublesome!? Anybody an idea how to solve this? Any help would be very much appreciated!!! TIA luis.abs Edit 1: Ok I thought I try again and went with the same install as the second time. Then booted OSX in verbose (-v) mode and found out that indeed the error must be in the kext file for the GFX card. Here is what comes up: ... kld_load_from_memory() failed for module /System/Library/Extensions/NVDANV10Hal.kext/Contents/MacOS/NVDANV10Hal a link/load error occured for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/NVADNV10Hal.kext NVDA::probe(display) match category exists, skipping NVDA::start(display) <1> mDNSResponder-108.2 ... starting Launched version 2.1 (v353.5) /System/Library/SoreServises/loginwindow.app/Contents/macOS/loginwindow: Login Window Application Started Ethernet address 00:0c:6f:58:da:c4 No Airport Driver found I think the problem MUST be in the "skipping NVDA::start(display) <1>"!? Any takers? Edit 2: After following some suggestion to boot in single user mode and then erase all files in the extension dir with the name GeForce/NVDA... & ATI my system now causes a crash after booting. Verbose mode now shows: display: stalling for module ??????? <<< maybe thats whats wrong?? Matching service coundt = 1 NVDA::probe(display) NVDA::start(display) <1> 2-to-4 channel spreading enabled mDNSResponder starting launched version ..... Login Window Application Started Ethernet Address 00:......... No Aiport Driver found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartango Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 this is certainly an nvidia graphics problem, and i have a strong feeling that titan/natit does not cover the card you have. Look around, but you might be better off with a cheap geforce 7 series or something. They're supported Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luis.abs Posted April 24, 2007 Author Share Posted April 24, 2007 Thanks for the response... Yes I tried to solve it using Titan/Natit but no go. Buying a new GFX board looks like the easiest solution. luis.abs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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