Hi,
I have a late 2007 MBP with the ATI graphics chipset. Everything was working fine other than a few distorted screens at the very start... now I can only get in to safemode.
I can not get into the login window on normal and sometimes it flicks to a screwed up display with beachball (display b/w beachball is coloured) everything appears to work fine in safemode other than the obvious fact none of the other extensions are enabled (sound, wifi etc)
Is it possible to force the OS to load normally but without the accelerated graphics? When I turn on the computer it usually shows distored at the apple screen and then clears up to a grey screen and usually goes blue before failing at screwed screen + visible beachball.
I've reset the pram,
fixed permissions and everything else using applejack
removed refit
fsck -fy
I would try to do an archive and install but unfortunately the drive has died on this laptop. I did try to boot from a mac server using netboot / netinstall however I get the same issues as normal mode.
I just find it really frustrating that I can type here with net access in safeboot and use almost all I use this for anyway...
I also bought a external dvd drive with my mac mini server however the laptop does not seem to detect that.
Anyone with any thoughts? thanks
EDIT:
I did manage to get OSX installed on an old bootcamp partiition using a mac server netinstall image over ethernet however the problem persists even on a fresh install. I can only assume part of the graphics memory has malfunctioned. In safemode I only get the issue if I put the laptop to sleep. Some people have removed NVDAResman.kext from their nvidia setup to help resolve this issue ... does anyone know what the ATi equivalent is?
I have a late 2007 MBP with the ATI graphics chipset. Everything was working fine other than a few distorted screens at the very start... now I can only get in to safemode.
I can not get into the login window on normal and sometimes it flicks to a screwed up display with beachball (display b/w beachball is coloured) everything appears to work fine in safemode other than the obvious fact none of the other extensions are enabled (sound, wifi etc)
Is it possible to force the OS to load normally but without the accelerated graphics? When I turn on the computer it usually shows distored at the apple screen and then clears up to a grey screen and usually goes blue before failing at screwed screen + visible beachball.
I've reset the pram,
fixed permissions and everything else using applejack
removed refit
fsck -fy
I would try to do an archive and install but unfortunately the drive has died on this laptop. I did try to boot from a mac server using netboot / netinstall however I get the same issues as normal mode.
I just find it really frustrating that I can type here with net access in safeboot and use almost all I use this for anyway...
I also bought a external dvd drive with my mac mini server however the laptop does not seem to detect that.
Anyone with any thoughts? thanks
EDIT:
I did manage to get OSX installed on an old bootcamp partiition using a mac server netinstall image over ethernet however the problem persists even on a fresh install. I can only assume part of the graphics memory has malfunctioned. In safemode I only get the issue if I put the laptop to sleep. Some people have removed NVDAResman.kext from their nvidia setup to help resolve this issue ... does anyone know what the ATi equivalent is?
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