thinkrj Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 After a lot of installations on my new rig, and thanks to the help of many of you, I have set up my HackPro and EveryThing Seems To WorkTM. But... Very often I come back home to a frozen computer: no panic screen, nothing in the logs, just a frozen screen with nothing moving, so I am forced to restart. The same hardware runs happily for a week on Vista x64, so I suppose is a software issue. What can I test to solve this? My hardware configuration is as follows: Motherboard: GA-P35_DS3R v.2.0, bios F11 CPU: Q6600 quad-core, at stock speed RAM: 4x1G DDR2 800 Video card: ATI Sapphire HD3850 Wireless network: D-Link DWL-G122 rev.C1 Storage: On the ICH9R SATA ports: WD SATA2 HD, GPT formatted, Leopard Seagate SATA2 HD, MBR formatted, Vista SATA optical drive On the Jmicron IDE channel Two IDE drives, Linux I tried Kalyway 10.5.1 and iAtkos 1.0i r2 and first noticed this problem. Then tested a vanilla-only installation, using only dsmos.kext and removing appleintelcpu... Same issue Yesterday I tested Kalyway 10.5.2 with its many kernels vanilla 9.2.2 hangs Standard (sleep) 9.2.0 hangs kabyl 9.2.2 hangs modbin 9.2.2 seems to work, then hangs after passing ~3G of ram usage (maybe it is unrelated to my issue, can be a 32bit-only kernel?) Anyone can suggest what to try to solve this? EDIT Apr-13: Traced the issue to my wifi USB DWL-G122. Removed, installed vanilla + dsmos - AppleIntelCPU , ran happily since. I suppose it was a driver issue, as in vista had no problems with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristial Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 I'm having the same issue as well it could be the ATI cards that we have that make the cards heat up thus freezing the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinkrj Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Not sure - my hd3850 runs about 65C-72C after a few hour in Leopard, but after removing the DWL usb stick my rig ran flawlessly until now. Tested on a vanilla installation, with only the hda and ati kexts added and fully updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamcha Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 hmm I would try enabling AHCI, for me with it disabled my system crashes after a few hrs.. might fix ur problem worth a try. GL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristial Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Oh ok i see, well I dont have any usb wifi and I have ahci enabled. Could be unrelated than. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinkrj Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 Appears that the culprit was the D-Link USB wifi after all. Ran for a week without it. The same usb stick crashed a friend's iMac in two hours, regardless of the drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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