How to find out what hardware I have
 

I have spent two days now with three 6 month old versions of Kalyway, iAtkos and iDeneb disks, done multiple installs, (trying various Customisation options) and all (apart from one iDeneb install,) have failed to install.
The one iDeneb install that did complete, then hung on re boot, got stuck in the re boot loop.

I have just started iDeneb 1.5.1 10.5.7 install. I have chosen no Custom options initially, just left them all as default

My problem is that I do not know what hardware I have actually got (SSE2 or SSE3, chipsets etc), so I need either someone to tell me if they recognise the following machine spec, or even a link to somewhere that may help. I have done various Google searches but come up with nothing concrete that makes any difference to the install.

The machine is a un-touched factory spec Sony Vaio tower machine, The following info came from an earlier setup attempt, using the Leopard System Profiler:

Sony Vaio
PCV-RS122(CE)
Intel Core Solo 2.41Ghz
2Gb 533 Mhz Memory

Graphics card info comes from the sticker on the front panel rather than the Sys Profiler. The graphics is not on-board, it is a plug in AGP graphics card

Graphics: NVDIA GeForce4 TI 4200.

I do have a selection of unbranded cards, (both PCi and AGP) so if that is a problem I could experiment with those.

Anyone give me a few clues as what might be a good starting point, either for custom options or what the machine I have is, so I can work it out for myself, by logic rather than guess work as is the case at present.
thanks.

Neil

Your CPU supports SSE3 and I would even try to get it working with the OS X stock / Vanilla Kernel.

For detailed and usable HW infos, boot up some Linux Live CD like Knoppix and enter "lspci -nn" on Terminal - you might even post the results here, this will help us a lot to help you. :D ;)

Great thanks

Of course a Live CD did not think of that, I do have some Ubuntu Live CD's kicking around, so will try them tonight.....Wondering if "lspci -nn" will work from the iDeneb/OSX install terminal, I think I saw 'Terminal' in the Utilities menu, on the install when I used Disk Utility

The iDeneb install went fine and completed, but again the endless reboot loop. I see the Kalyway, iAtkos and SnowOSX Universal torrents have completed downloading so will burn and try them tonight.

Will post the "lspci -nn" results when I get back tonight,

Thanks

Neil

Does it reboot instantly, after you select OS X from the Bootloader? If so I would try to use one of the patched Kernel (9.7.0 Qoopz - 9.6.0 AnV or 9.5.0 Voodoo).

And no the PCI Utils aren't part of OS X - there are just some ports you need to install speratly.

The re boot sequence is:
BIOS screen and then
Darwin /x86 boot v 5.0.132 - Chameleon v1.0.12
Build date xx xxxx
2047 memory
VESA v2.0...16mb ATI RADEON 9600 PRO
Press any key for boot options...
Loading Darwin x86

Then it jumps to a black screen the machine beeps then back to the initial BIOS screen,


I have tried the -x boot option, and I think -xf, but no options seem to get i out of the loop.

Here is the spec using lspci -nn.

Thanks

Neil

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge [8086:2561] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24c0] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller [8086:24cb] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NQ [Radeon Mobility 9600] [1002:4e51]
01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NQ [Radeon Mobility 9600] (Secondary) [1002:4e71]