lxjenkins Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 I successfully installed and used Mac OS 10.4.8 for a number of days. However, today when I booted up, immediately following the grey apple screen with spinning logo, there was a brief message on my monitor ("Resizing display.." or something of the like) and then the screen went black and my monitor went to standby. I thought it may have been a fluke so I booted up again and low and behold the same thing happened again. Does anyone know what's going on and how to fix it? In between the last successful boot and the first messed up boot I had made no changes to the system. My system: P4 3.0ghz ATI Radeon PCI-e 300x (didn't install the drivers as the monitor worked fine without it) 3 partitions on my hard drive - (1)Fat32 (2)Windows NTFS (3) AppleOS X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neonkoala Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 What happens when you boot into safe mode with -x ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lxjenkins Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 When and where do I enter "-x" to boot into safe mode without the installation dvd? The OS x86 boot menu comes up, I choose to boot to the Mac partition but have no time/space to enter -x. Yes, I am a noob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 before the loading darwin/x86 message at boot time press F8 and then type -x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lxjenkins Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 Ok - booted up in safe mode without a problem. The odd thing is is that in safe mode I have access to a whole slew of resolutions (not just 1024 x768) and it also knows that I'm using a Dell W1700 monitor. Any clues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackal217 Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 yeah, this happens to me too... im kinda stuck on 1024x768 because of it and it looks sh!77y on my LCD.... would love to see a fix.... even a workaround would be nice (setting res at boot doesnt work either) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lxjenkins Posted May 5, 2007 Author Share Posted May 5, 2007 Anyone have any suggestions? I think it has something to do with the resolution when the Mac OS starts up - as it appears similar to the problem I had when I mistakenly installed the Radeon driver during initial installation. The question is - how do I fix the start up resolution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lxjenkins Posted May 5, 2007 Author Share Posted May 5, 2007 Nevermind - got it fixed - just installed Natit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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