SachiNet Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Hey everyone need some help here! I have a Dell Dimension 8100, it has a Pentium 4 1.3Ghz Willamente processor without SSE3. When OS X first was able to install on a PC, I had no issues. I used the Phenix download of 10.4.1, patched it and installed first try. I've since formatted due to the lack of universal binaries but recently downloaded macosx_10.4.3_8f11111_for_dtk_userdvd.img. I applied the Jas 4.2 patch to it as well and all Md5sum's check out fine. I'm having trouble when I try to install though. I get the screen saying press enter to install which I do. I get the gray apple screen and the spinning ball. I then get the blue screen and a cursor which changes to a beach ball after a minute or so. I get the cursor back, and then it disappears and my computer just reboots. I'm not sure if it's that PAE issue or not, but on the compatability list, it does show someone with the 1.4ghz version of my processor running OS X fine with the Jas 4.2 patch. Is this what happens if its a PAE issue? From my understanding, if it was, I wouldn't be able to even get this far. Vmware under Windows does the same thing as well, goes to that place then reboots, even with the paevm = true flag turned on. If this isn't it, I'm curious what else it could be, since it worked fine before. Only thing I've changed since then is that I had a Geforce 5200 32mb card and now have a radeon 9250 128mb. Thanks so much. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8749-dimension-8100-p4-13-reboots-before-the-welcome-installer/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SachiNet Posted February 8, 2006 Author Share Posted February 8, 2006 Here is a screenshot of what actually happens in verbose mode. Anyone know what it means? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8749-dimension-8100-p4-13-reboots-before-the-welcome-installer/#findComment-54424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrp Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 I have the exact same computer and the exact same problem. So it's not your video card. Have you tried loading the 10.4.3 patched dvd on another computer? I would if I could. I'm thinking it might be something with RDRAM. There's a forum thread from a little while back with a couple of complaints about a similar problem (it gets to the blue screen right before the installer). I was also curious to see if there was a way to install besides using a dvd. For 10.4.1 I basically extracted all the files from the image onto my mac, then put the hard drive into the dell, and it just booted up tiger without having to go through the installer. I posted an article about this problem, got more than 200 views, but no replies! I'll let you know if I get it to work. Sorry I can't solve your problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8749-dimension-8100-p4-13-reboots-before-the-welcome-installer/#findComment-54804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Here is a screenshot of what actually happens in verbose mode. Anyone know what it means? Not sure what those codes mean, but here's a couple thoughts: 1) How did you put the JaS DVD together? 2) Which patches did you apply to the kernel & how? That's a start - you probably need to go to win2osx and look in the patches threads for the full discussion on maxxuss' work for sse2 procs and which patches to use. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8749-dimension-8100-p4-13-reboots-before-the-welcome-installer/#findComment-54818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
briansorders Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Same computer dimensios 8100, p4 1.4 ghz ... same problem ... i downloaded the pre made image (MacOSx 10.4.3 8F1111A Patched Jas v4.2b.iso) ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8749-dimension-8100-p4-13-reboots-before-the-welcome-installer/#findComment-71030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
naventus Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Same issue with 10.4.5 maxxus. Apparently, according to wiki, someone got it to install with native. Does anyone have any more leads? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8749-dimension-8100-p4-13-reboots-before-the-welcome-installer/#findComment-75163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
naventus Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 I think I may have found the issue here- can anyone please confirm whether or not they were using NO NX patched native DVDs? The Dimension 8100 does not have NX support. Thoughts from anyone in the community? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8749-dimension-8100-p4-13-reboots-before-the-welcome-installer/#findComment-75759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 I think I may have found the issue here- can anyone please confirm whether or not they were using NO NX patched native DVDs? The Dimension 8100 does not have NX support. Thoughts from anyone in the community? My understanding (and use) of the kernel used for those patched DVDs is that they already had all the patches applied. If you head over to maxxuss' blog and read the instructions there, he mentions the need to sometimes use his bootloader (a java app he put together). This might be one of those times... Having said that, my Dell 8400 needed both the NoNX & the CPUID patch under 10.4.3. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8749-dimension-8100-p4-13-reboots-before-the-welcome-installer/#findComment-75779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
briansorders Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 I wasted so much time with this, i'll try giving that a shot next when i get some time. I've been able to install on everything excpet for this dam dimension 8100 ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8749-dimension-8100-p4-13-reboots-before-the-welcome-installer/#findComment-80623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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