Thank you so much for that help lawless. This morning arond 2am I managed to get it working. I installed lawlessppc and then installed a few kexts from iPC from the desktop ontop of lawless. ThNk you so much for your work. If it panics again, I will def remove some memory. Thanks again!

does anyone know of a 64bit chipset driver for an msi k9a2 platinum motherboard which is a via chipset, south bridge 600 and is an 790FX board. thanks.

http://darwin-ata.googlecode.com/fil....kext-v0.2.zip

this should do the trick same as im using

thank you so much lawlessppc. i will def give this a try. just downloaded it now and will let you all know. thanks again for all your help and work.

quick question lawlessppc, i have the same motherboard as you and just curious. when you install the lawlessppc distro, it installs the vanilla kernel. when you updated to 10.5.5, did you use any patching or just download the update from the website and install it. would you recommend the vanilla kernel over the voodoo on with our setups?

it doesnt install the vanilla kernel its just named the same if the kernel is named differently it can break some programs as they expect it to be called mach_kernel. I use the voodoo kernel but i have named it to mach_kernel your best to download and install this

oh ok gotcha. i currently have the voodoo kernel installed ontop of your lawlessppc distro. sorry if im missing something, but you say to download the update 10.5.5 from the website and apply it or...

there should be no need to patch any files for use with amd if you use the voodoo kernel this is the main benefit of using it. It patches on the fly

I've got 4gig of ram on a Dell C521 with an AMD64 running iDeneb 1.3 that's giving me random kernel panics. I don't want to be pulling ram out, whats the best software solution? I'm not sure whether to use the 64bit kext or limit the amount ram

add maxmem=3072 to your boot plist, saves you removing the ram.