XYMer's Home away from Home

if it worked the first time that wouldn't be any fun, right?

69-71 under load, did it for my father inlaw (he is a retired aero-space engineer/constant tinkerer) he was pretty set on building his own water blocks and doing some liquid cooling its in a giant coolmaster case with an assload of fans if IIRC one was like 8-10 inch fan on the door.

One question I had was whats with "turbo boost" on his it didn't work as described it just always went to the highest multiplier and stayed there even if all 4 cores were loaded? so in a sense its really a stock 2.8 instead of 2.66? if i turned it off in the bios it would run 2.66.

For fun you could try verbose mode and see if that gets you anything interesting.

I love verbose mode. If I could marry verbose mode, I would.

This. It'll likely point to the exact framework/kext(s) that are causing the problem. Then you can boot into verbose mode's hot, hot cousin Single User and delete said kexts from there.

The last couple lines it stops on involve spotlight. There are some lines in yellow at the beginning, but they race by way too fast to see what was up. Does it save a log before it kernel panics somewhere? May be a moot point. The new motherboard came in today.

^ if i remember correctly thats in /var/log/system.log

Figures. The motherboard has a 4pin CPU connector and my power supply has an 8pin one. I went to Frys and got a molex(hard drive) to 4pin adapter, but no dice. I could only find and 8 to 4 adapter on eBay and from a small shop in Nevada(outletpc.com). I only have 3 days to declare the board working or not and return it. So now I have to take apart my HTPC and pull the power supply from that. Maybe it is better to get a real mac....

i ran into the same problem with testing my newer power supply to see if it was working in an older P4 Dell. i looked at the design of the 4 pin and compared it against half of the 8 pin by eye and tried it out. with that dell i could plug in half of it, have the other half hanging over, and it powered it up fine! worth a shot

I did that but still got constant beeping and no startup, which the manual says is a power error. As a last resort I moved some RAM around, and it booted right up, there was a week wasted waiting for an adapter.

So I was working on it last night and disaster struck. Maybe. I'm afraid to look. I think speedstep was crashing the machine at boot. So I booted the machine from a CD, jumped into the terminal, and deleted the kext. Then I wanted to cd back to the /Extra folder on the drive to make sure there wasn't anything there that dealt with speedstep. Instead of typing the command cd..., I hit the up arrow to get to the cd command I already typed and just delete everything after the drive name. So, I did that and hit return. I hear the HD start working and the prompt just sits there. Here's the command that I ran:

rm -rf /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/

All for the lack of hitting up one more time. I immediately yanked the power cord and went to bed. I'll take my sata-usb cord home tonight and mount the drive on my laptop to survey the damage.

ouch. that sucks. i did that once with my entire un-backed-up iPod library, too quick on the command-a, delete. happens to the best of us

better on your home machine than a work server though

Ouch. Reminds me of the time I accidentally deleted a hard drive when I had intended to delete a symbolic link to the drive. Like you, it was the grinding, and the delay, that tipped me off to what I'd really done.

Make sure to get a real power supply. DO NOT SKIMP ON THE PSU. Corsair is God Tier. Antec is pretty good too. If your board has 8 pin power and you're only using four then you WILL see problems. Adapters are a sorry stopgap. Get a better PSU, end of story.

Actually he had the reverse, in that the motherboard had 4 pin CPU power and the supply was newer and had 8 pin CPU power.

Agreed that you should never skimp on the power supply. The only time I ever skimped was when I couldn't find an ATX power supply with a -5V rail and ended up going with a Rosewill unit. Which has been running fine for 4 years or so now, knock on wood.

Oh, and I think plugging half the 8-pin connector into the 4-pin connector is an acceptable compromise. The 4 pins are the same, and the extra 4 just won't get used. Doesn't always work when there isn't enough room for the connector to overhang (cap, etc. next to the connector).

Exactly. The POST beep code indicated that there was a power issue, but it was a RAM issue. Of course I bought 3 different connectors and waited a week before switching the RAM around.

The good, or great, news is that I hit the power button before any of my drive was deleted. I installed Snow leopard to a new drive last night and migrated the user account from the old drive. I can't get it to recognize my GT 240, I extracted the ROM, created an NVCap, created a boot string, but no joy. I guess I'll try the ATY_Init.kext next.