@andyi89

just wondering if anybody would help me out in buying a new laptop. ive been looking into getting a dell inspiron 1545 but after putting 4gb memory and 320 hard drive in and a graphics card there like 600 quid! which is quite alot really…

ive managed to install snow leopard on a dell studio 1555 and its lovely i did this by pretty simply using snowosx universal distro which you should be able to find at the bay of pirates i didnt boot with any flags i just simply pressed…

okay so ive done some searching round and ive just come across alot of black screen errors and nothing like what im having trouble with when i move a window or scroll in safari ive got a gefrorce 8600gt in this computer ive jsut…

so leopard was treating me pretty nicely however i decided to update to snow leopard. Its took me 2 days but ive manged to get it installed and working! With one problem however ive got a ati mobility 4570 ¬_¬ which means i cannot change…

“I've actually just started this back up again and done another installation tbh i've been using Insanleymac and haven't been back on infinite mac yet i think ive explained everything in a post on there ive also just got two finger scrolling…”

“i had snow leopard on my computer booting! i used i portable to install the image to my harddrive unfortunatly it seems to have corrupted and just resarts on boot ive tryed disk warrior and still nothing seems to change nevermind tho ay!”

“yea i used the voodoo battery meter tbh with you tho it isnt very clever if it wasnt plugged in the battery died in not time i used iatkos v7 in the end and used there intel speedstep drivers which give you power options like high performan…”

“yay! haha sorry i forgot to mention about the hardware cursor ive just got my hands on iatkosv7 to have a try with but it doesnt boot for me:(! i still have a problem were sometimes it just doesnt boot lol! on my current install its such a …”

“oh a quick question for you completely mac unrelated uknow your studio 1555 when u log into windows does it take awhile on the welcome screen and when loadin desktop?”

“hey so all sounds pretty good atm then what version are you running is it 10.5.6 or have u updated to 10.5.8? and yea ofcourse i can okay so first u need a program called kext helper b7 u may already have it installed but if not google is y…”

“got it installed on my computer again working fine 10.5.8 got sound and some video obviously graphics card is not supported heres a guide to help you install it Dell Stuido 1555 installation guide if that doesnt help you ill be able to give…”

“i replyed to this yesterday and it hasnt posted! thats the second time ive done this lol! am not to sure on your problem tbh bit of a newbie myslef have you tryed pressing f8 at start and typing -x -v -f that will put it in a sort of safe m…”

“okay so ive done a reinstall and updated straight away deleted the x2000 kext and well all seems well got sound videos are a bit funny but thats to be expected sounds fine using voodoohda and well all seems well start up issue still exists …”

“When you are in Safemode, go to /System/Library/Extensions and delete ATIRadeonX2000.kext - (needless to say, that you create a Backup first;)). Then I think, you should be able to boot normal again. What! you are actually a genius! I spent…”

“okay ive installed kalyway again without kexts and then updated it straight away after update it boots up into just a greyish screen with a few squgily boxes i can move with the mouse i can boot into safemode and it works fine so i tryed in…”

“Probably a system.kext problem. Open the Terminal and enter "uname -a" it will return you current Kernel. Then got to /System/Library/Extensions peform right-click on system.kext and select Informatiosn - compare the system.kext version wit…”

“Finally got my laptop and after a few failed attempts finally seem to be getting somewhere i've got leopard running on my laptop i tried a few distro's some of which wouldn't even boot in the end i ended up using kalyway 10.5.2 which unfort…”

“I did listen to your advice but couldn’t find a laptop meeting the graphics requirements as well as getting all the other components supported (with the little amount of knowledge i had about components supported and the osx86 wiki) this se…”

“okay so ive done a bit of searching around and ive come up with this. now unfortunatly i dont actually have my new laptop yet its estimated delivery date is the 14th of janurary! >> but that gives me time to do abit of reasearch so far as a…”

“So last night i made a desicion and bought this spec laptop now to start lookin for some kexts am pretty sure i have an idea on what i need bu any ideas ould b rally apreciated andy STUDIO 15 Intel� Pentium� Dual-Core Processor T4300 (2.1GH…”

“would a Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P7450 be compatable with one of the distro's? ive looked on osx86 and cant see it i think a t6600 would work”

“youtubed it and its pretty sweet looking but looking for more of a laptop as its going to be my main computer kinda hoping to get a dual boot of windows 7/ mac os x”

“haha cool oh what driver has it rejected u can delete it using -s and making ur way towards it but probably best off doing a reinstall i know its a pain but thats what i usually do by rejected to you mean paniced? or just hasnt booted?”

“yea sure but to save me typing it all out heres a link to the thread were i first did 10.5.8 Kext ideas and recommendations for a dell studio 1555 and similar laptops that will explain most of ur questions on how to install it just have a r…”