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08-07-2009, 10:54 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Germany
Posts: 779
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Originally Posted by topsykretts
It got to the point where theres a blue screen with the embedded spinning loading circle (not the rainbow cursor), but there was no HD activity so I waited a few minutes and forced it to power off, then rebootd. The update was installed. Now I'm trying to figure out why the computer wouldn't shut down. I'm also unable to bring up the shutdown menu by pressing the power button on my laptop, nor am I able to sleep (sleep just shuts the computer down). In the process of trying to find out why thats happening but if anyone has any idea, please let me know.
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If I understood you right, you now managed to have 10.5.8 running, but having problems on shutdown, reboot, sleep and so on?
Check out if OpenHaltRestart.kext is installed on your system. If not get it from here and give it a try.  I hope that will fix it.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 - ASRock AM3A770DE - 8GB DDR3-1333 - Radeon HD 5570 1GB passiv - BCM4318 802.11b/g - Snow Leopard Retail
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AMD Phenom X3 8450 - ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA (BIOS L2.39) - 4GB DDR2-800 - Radeon HD 4650 512MB - Snow Leopard Retail (retired) / OpenBSD
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