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Hey guys first time here, I finally decided to go for OSX86. I found a tutorial on i-hacked doing a DVD bootable installation, made it, and it works fine. However the installation process isn't in the best resolution. Basically to describe it, it boots up and shows the apple logo with the spinning circle on the bottom, normal procedure. Then once it goes into installation the screen goes entirely grayscale, and it's really hard to read the text or anything. I tried the blank hard drive on two computers and still same result. Always hard to see the text, everything's in grayscale and the panels on screen look broken off and whatnot. it's hard to describe but basically it's hard to see and everything can't really go passed the "select destination" step for my partitions.

 

 

 

thanks in advanced,

ipodphoto30.

ahh, it's the built in video card on the mobo.

 

EDIT: I google searched my emachines t2542 and found out the graphics are"Intel Extreme Graphics video/graphics card (with 64 MB of shared video memory)" not sure why it's labeled as a graphics card as it's built into the motherboard.

845GV is your chipset. I'm assuming your motherboard is the Intel D845GVSR. It says Intel Extreme Graphics under Video. And guess what, Intel Extreme is not supported under OS X so thats your problem. The Intel Extreme only works under 256 colors or GRAYSCALE mode, which is what you are experiencing. So you're gonna have to get a different video card.

just make sure your video ram is turned up to the max in bios to avoid the 4-bit greyscale bug. the 845 will work with VESA modes, but no accelleration is available in os x >10.4.1 and even only sporadically in that.

 

methinks pcwiz needs to learn more & spout less.

just make sure your video ram is turned up to the max in bios to avoid the 4-bit greyscale bug. the 845 will work with VESA modes, but no accelleration is available in os x >10.4.1 and even only sporadically in that.

 

methinks pcwiz needs to learn more & spout less.

 

is there a thread that might show me how to turn up my video ram on the bios? and exact specific instructions to get this to work? i tried searching for it with no luck. ;)

 

...... you made my day knowing i can still make it work with what i've already got.

Sorry, I made a mistake. Just trying to help. I don't own Intel Extreme Graphics Controller so I can't test this stuff out.

 

ipodphoto,

 

You should be able to turn up VRAM in BIOS under Onboard Device Configuration or I/O Configuration or a Video section (if your BIOS has one)

 

Sorry again

pcwiz

Sorry, I made a mistake. Just trying to help. I don't own Intel Extreme Graphics Controller so I can't test this stuff out.

 

ipodphoto,

 

You should be able to turn up VRAM in BIOS under Onboard Device Configuration or I/O Configuration or a Video section (if your BIOS has one)

 

Sorry again

pcwiz

 

no hard feelings, it's alright. i'll give it a try when i'm done with homework, how high should i crank it up? would this just fix my problem right away or would i have to make additional modifications?

no hard feelings, it's alright. i'll give it a try when i'm done with homework, how high should i crank it up? would this just fix my problem right away or would i have to make additional modifications?

 

Once you change your settings in the BIOS it should work (the board's user manual should say how to change VGA settings). Im using an ASUS P4P-800 VM (865G, Intel extreme 2), I've never had such a issue; it should works in VESA mode but you wont have QE/Ci acceleration. My advice: get a chip Nvidia card (fx5200=20€ or so)

thanks a ton!

 

i really didn't wanna spend much money as I just wanted to play around with os x. I already use it on an eMac at school for graphics animation class. As I started liking macs more and got so tired of vista being unstable. I decided to get a macbook. But I wanted to make sure os x would work in my day to day computer basis works. So that's why I wanted to run osx86.

 

I would install it on my hp laptop which has a fairly good graphics card on it but fear of bricking the drive and losing my information had me avoid installing it on the laptop.

This is probably not a considered option, but you could run OS X in VMware, meaning that it runs inside Windows and it does absolutely NOTHING to your hard drive. If you're interested check out my guide:

 

http://######.com/software/vmwareosx86.htm

thanks a ton!

 

i really didn't wanna spend much money as I just wanted to play around with os x. I already use it on an eMac at school for graphics animation class. As I started liking macs more and got so tired of vista being unstable. I decided to get a macbook. But I wanted to make sure os x would work in my day to day computer basis works. So that's why I wanted to run osx86.

 

I would install it on my hp laptop which has a fairly good graphics card on it but fear of bricking the drive and losing my information had me avoid installing it on the laptop.

 

Buy yourself a mac, you wont regret it.

For trying out, you could still load OSX in your 845 PC and add a cheap graphic card to have some graphics features. Is a useless to load an old 845 board with a expensive card and besides I dont think you should spend money on hardware if you're thinking in buying the real thing.

VMware is an option but if I have to be honest it runs very slow. Its hardly usable.

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