Hello everyone!
I have installed IPC 10.5.6 Final Universal on my HP pavillion 854n (old school) computer.
install seemed to go well, and i beleive i have picked the best/needed drivers but could be wrong.. sorry, Im a bit noob :/ The issue i am having is after install, I boot -f -v and eventually I can here the music begin playing and then the guy talk about the voice command or whatever, however all I see is a black screen with a bunch of white typing..(sorry so noob) and it seems to just hang there.. any suggestions or ideas would be great!
I am using the voodoo kernal- I have a 2.53 pentium 4 (sse2?)
I grabbed the legacy geforce drivers- Geforce MX440 128mb (weak I know..)
Intel ichx SATA driver
I applied the seatbelt.kext (which i dont know if that is nec. but saw it in a post)

Please let me know if i am missing any crucial patches or have made any mistakes... I am just dying to get this working, so I would greatly appreciate any help that you can give!
Thanks in advance guys!!
-Chase

Motherboard Supplier MSIMotherboard NameMS-6577 Rev 1System BIOS Supplier MSI/AwardForm FactoruATX Processor BrandIntelProcessor Socket TypemPGA478Processor FamilyP4 and Celeron (Willamette, Northwood)Proc. Front Side Bus Frequency400/533 MHzChipset Name845GChipset "North Bridge"845Grevision/steppingA1Chipset "South Bridge"ICH4revision/steppingA1Super I/OWinbondrevision/steppingW83627HF-AWFlash BIOS Device4MB Flash EEPROMMemory TypeDDRMemory SpeedPC2100/PC1600Memory Sockets2 DIMMMaximum Memory1 GBGraphics SupplierIntelGraphics ConfigurationDown, In ChipsetOnboard Graphics MemoryUMA/up to 48MBGraphics Connector (AGP)AGP4xTV-Out DeviceNoTV-Out Configuration(N/A)AudioAC'97 DownAC'97 CODEC DeviceRealtek ALC202AAudio Jacks (Legend below)M, LI, LO, SOMMicrophoneLILine InLOLine outSOSpeakerM/GMidi/GameEthernet 10/100 LAN SupplierRealtek RTL8101LEthernet ConfigurationPCI, DownIDE UDMA ModesATA-66/100

Try what you did before, but leave out any display driver. You can correct the driver after the fact, so long as choosing no driver will give you some display to work with. (there is probably a slick command line way to fix this, but I am fairly new also and don't know how, but I have the hang of a couple distros.) As an alternative, try these options. This will use a vanilla kernel and will use PC EFI v9, which pretty much everyone should be shooting for. (if successful, it allows you to use Software Update without breaking your system!!!) I got it on mine. It's sweet!

Base System
Drivers
Legacy Time Machine Fix
Chipset
ICHx SATA
Audio
YOUR AUDIO
Ethernet
YOUR ETHER
USB Drivers
Patched USB
FixPatch
PS/2 Device Support
PS/2 Keyboard Fix (use this if needed. I use mac kybd so I left it off)
DSDT
Patch DSDT
AppleSMBIOS Patch
AppleSMBIOSResolver
Applications
load all, check top level item which will select all underneath

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Intel DG43NB, ICH10, Ethernet Intel 82567V, Audio Realtek ALC888VC, nVidia 9400 GT, Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33 GHz, 4GB, SATA WD 500GB, DVD Sony DRU-865S
EFI v9 courtesy iPC OSx86 10.5.6 - Updates via Software Update!

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have you tried safe mode, type -x at the prompt. If you can get into safe mode maybe you can correct the issue from there if it's a driver problem.