Ok, to retrace my steps for this morning:
1. Loaded into -s, but couldn't execute those commands. I think you need to give it to a Mac noob like me in step by step lol
Well it tells you the commands to run to mount the / partition then fsck it if you cannot find the proper number(s) for the partition to mount then use
diskutil list
Code:
macuser2525s-mac-pro:~ MacUser2525$ sudo diskutil list
Password:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *596.2 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Leopard 40.0 Gi disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS Home 40.0 Gi disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS music 80.0 Gi disk0s4
5: Apple_HFS video 435.5 Gi disk0s5
There in my system disk you can see my / partition which I named Leopard is disk0s2 you would use the one yours is on in the mount command.
2. I assumed you wanted me to try repair permissions, so i loaded up ideneb and ran disk utilities from there, and it (allegedly) repaired a whole bunch of permissions. I didn't hit repair disk.
Yes that is what I was getting at and it actually does do it when it say it is.
3. The only bios setting i found that related to what you were saying was the ACHP setting, which i changed (Changed ACHP from disabled to enabled, changed SATA/IDE from IDE to ACHP, but it only changed the way my bios operated and wouldn't load my standard BIOS at all. Needless to say it was operating very wierd and couldn't have been set up that way before - Windows wouldn't even boot off my other partition! So i reverted it, cause even OSX still wouldn't load.
Sure it was not ACHI I may have got the middle two letters reversed. This is what you want for OS X with the controller set to SATA mode not Raid, Native or IDE. For it to work in this mode in Vista I believe you need to have installed it with the mode turned on at time of install/installed drivers for it in Vista not totally certain though never used it was that way in XP.
Grrr, please help me it's driving me insane!
Probably best to go to the insanelymac.com forum and start your own thread listing all the hardware in your machine along with the install method, the settings used in BIOS, things tried so far, stuff like that you will get more eyes on the problem than trying to solve it here in this great big jumbled up thread.
yes i can imagine, last year that thing would have been near top of the line. it would have cost you a mint! i daresay it will still give you another 4-5years even running under the intense changes you have given it. i hope it pays off for you
Yeah just a bit of cash it is the most I ever spent on a processor I usually like to keep it in the $150 range at most.
30°F? that is darn cold! it doesnt get below 15°C (39°F) here in winter so it is never cool enough to make a difference for me. my bedroom is underground so it stays at the same temperature all year round anyways.
30s C for the processor in winter although it does get pretty damn cold around here, it can go to the -40+ C in the coldest part of winter then you need to take into account the wind chill. Its -14C as I write this right now supposed to get a warm snap in a couple of days with balmy a 6C and rain as opposed too the two feet of snow out there now...
i have an 8500GT 512mb, it is enough power for me. i just wanted a card that is HDCP compliant with enough power for me to play lego starwars and a bit of cod2 online
Seems like a reasonable idea for getting a card not everyone needs to spend hundreds like I did, I got mine for maximum compatibility with the OS X hardware at the time still waited til the price on them came down into the under two hundred range though.
my motto is "just keep hacking" eheh. (no relation to the act of hacking into computer systems, hackintoshes etc haha). that is a nice motto
Actually that is "cracking" just the useless media can never let the facts or proper terminology get in the way of a sexier story, a hacker is some who hacks (works) on the system always has been no matter what the fools say.
right so a table of strings is passed into the system which detects hardware, easy enough to understand. so the only difference (problem) between a hack and a mac is that hacks are emulated. i wonder what kind of limitations that gives the computer, im sure there are some.
Most likely there are some problems in there with the way manufacturers never seem to strictly follow the standards/cut corners to save two cents on a part being the chief culprit I would say. This is where Apple really does have the advantage theoretically anyways in knowing the exact hardware/firmware/software they are supposed to be getting unless their OEMs do the same to them.
Actually, my RAM is running at 828MHz. My FSB is at 414MHz. System Profiler just detects it as 800MHz. I don't exactly know why it doesn't report the other 28MHz. Maybe it just reports what the RAM is rated at. Or, maybe it's just a simple text string in a file somewhere as opposed to being truly dynamic. I just don't know.
It reports what it finds in the SPD chip on the ram module as far as I can tell. I have put 667 and 800 in machines before and it always seems to come up right for which one is there no matter if over/under clocked it reported the module rated speed.
However, profiler does report the correct bus speed which should be twice the RAM speed since the RAM is running in dual channel mode.
That would be the first D in DDR (double data rate) ram doing that, dual channel means the modules are paired together to double the memory bus with from 64bit to 128bit in these boards.
I didn't do anything. When I installed Temperaturemonitor it asked if it could install some Intel specific driver or something so that it could accurately detect the temps.
The core temperature driver it uses the on board thermistor in the chip for its readings not the ones on the motherboard.
Other than that I haven't done anything special. I should point out that when I start Temperaturemonitor, sometimes it'll take up to a minute before all the cores have a temperature report.
Same thing sometimes happens here when I start it.
