Sager NP9262 Woes please help

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I have been trying to get mine running without hitch for the last 2 months and basically I'm having little success. To start here are the specs of my laptop.

 

Specs of my laptop.

 

Processor & Chipset,

Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600 2.4GHz

Chipset: Intel® P965 Express Chipset + ICH8R

 

Display

17" WSXGA+ (1680x1050)

 

Disk Drives

250GB 5,400RPM SATA II 3Gb/s Hard Drive

80GB 5,400RPM SATA II 3Gb/s Hard Drive

DUAL Pioneer Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW 5x DVD-RAM 24x CD-R/RW

Built-in 7 in 1 Card Reader(MS/MS PRO/MS DUO/SD/Mini-SD/MMC/RSMMC)

MS/MS Pro/MS Duo/MS Pro Duo/SD/Mini-SD/MMC

 

Memory

4GB DDR2/667MHz Memory TWO SO-DIMM sockets

 

Network

Built in Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC

Built in IntelPro 4965 802.11AGN Wi-Fi

Built-in Bluetooth Wireless Card

Built in 56k V.90/v.92 Modem

 

Audio Features

Built-in ALC655 AC'97 Audio CODEC Sound System

4 Built-in Stereo Speakers

4 Audio ports:

1. Headphone out

2. Mic-in

3. S/PDIF-out

4. Line-in

Wavetable 3D Surround sound

Sound Blaster compatible

 

Video Controller

Single nVIDIA® MXM IV GeForce® 8800M GTX with 512MB GDDR3 Video Memory (device id 0X060C not 0x0191)

 

 

 

I/O Interfaces

4 USB 2.0 ports

IEEE-1394a Firewire Port (TI PCI7402 - 4 pin)

DVI Digital External Monitor Port

VGA External Monitor Port

4 Multi-Purpose Audio Jacks

S-Video TV output

 

 

 

I have tried the following.

 

Kalyway 10.5.1

Iatkos 10.5.1 r2

TOH 10.5.1 RC2

XXX_10.4.10

 

 

I have tried efi on all of them but It panic's right off the bat. Trying without efi on a patchkernal in Kalyway, and TOH I get ACPI_SMC_CtrlLoop panic.

 

However if I start either Kalyway or TOH in safemode it will boot through to desktop, atwhich I can install NVinject 3.3 and get my resolution native and switchable with no qe/ci (in safemode still) but one thing that baffles me is that the

device id for my geforce 8800gtx isnt the typical 0x0191 it is 0x060C which ofcourse with having different UUID's in the EFI which is where i think i am having my problem there.

 

Iatkos seems to be the one im getting the most sucess in respects that if I install the Speedstep kernal and remove powermanagment through the install

options, it will boot to the desktop after a good 2 minutes, in verbose mode it is getting manye errors with the speedstep in regards to cpu clocking and

so forth. However once on the desktop when I try to get NVinject working the seocnd the install is done it locks up.. then continues to panic on reboot.

 

Ok so that doesnt work so reinstall yet again and trying to get my usb's to work (it will recognize devices that were plugged in during startup but

nothing after startup) the chipset is ICH8R which should be supported so I tried applying the ICH8R_Patch_Mstk_v_1.1 and the PCGenUSBEHCI_303.4.5 kext

file without any sucess... I am feeling like the battle is beginning to overthrow me.

 

If you could be so kind as to offer some assistance or atleast know of some reading or informaiton that could be of assistance I would be most greatful.

 

I feel like for the hardware that is in this machine it seems like its much more work than should be seeing as most of it should be compatable.

 

 

Thanks Kindly

 

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