Extremely slow, can barely move

Hey everyone,

I recently installed iATKOSv1.0 on my PC and it runs EXTREMELY slow. I can barely click continue and the individual screens take extremely long to load. If I click a folder, you can see the lag as it pops up. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,

My guess is that it's your video card which isn't installed correctly.
First, tell us what your hardware is.

Click on the apple icon at the top-left, choose "about this mac" (check that your RAM memory is fully detected), click on "more info", goto "graphics/display" and see that your video card is recognized correctly.

Hey there, thanks for the response. That's what I thought it might be, the video driver. Especially since I couldn't see the welcome video, all I saw was a gray screen and the dropdown menu's in the setup were extremely slow.

I'm not sure if this is what you need, but, under Device Manager in my PC partition this is what it has under display adapters:

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Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family

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From the Mac:

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Type: Display
Bus Built In
VRAM (Total): 64MB Shared Sys Memory
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x2a42
Revision ID: 0x0007
Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded

Displays:
Resolution: 1024x768
Depth: 32-Bit
Core Img: Software
main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Not Supported

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Thanks for the help guys!

Hmm... I couldn't find on the intel site how much ram does your card have, but I don't think it should be just 64mb :)

if you still have the OSX installed, download this NVEnabler kext . (you need to register to their forum to download it).

(note that they say you should remove any custom kext for graphic cards before installing this... there shouldn't be a problem if you did not check any VGA Drivers in the installation DVD customization)

Then download osx86tools and use the "install kext" option they have to install the kext you've just downloaded.

reboot and hope for the best :)

So, I'm not entirely sure if I did or did not install this with any VGA drivers. I tried to install the kext and what it did was install, and when I hit restart, it just froze. I forced it to power off and when I got back in, I saw no changes.

So, what I'm going to do is re-install the iATKOS. Question, would you suggest a different version of iATKOS or use the one I have? (v1.0)

Thanks,

Tried with a fresh install, installed the kext, rebooted, nothing.

A question, before I reboot the first time (while the install disk is still in the drive) everything works super, no lag at all.. but when I reboot that first time, it's extremely slow. Does the install disk connect with this problem at all? I really appreciate the help..

Please help me =/

iAtkos v1?
Yeah, I'd recommend iAtkos v7 :) (10.5.7 Leopard)

Are you using a laptop? (if so, which brand/model)
If so, maybe there's an NVEnabler for mobile gfx cards...
And if your graphics card is an Intel card, and not nVidia... I don't think NVEnabler will work.

I'm using a laptop. I'm also downloading v7 right now.. Problem is, I'm on-campus and my university doesn't allow torrent downloads. So, while I'm at my friends place, I'm downloading the torrent.

But, I'm using a Compaq Presario CQ50
I'm not exactly sure how to find out what kind of network card I have.. any help with that? I'm a newb at all this. =X

Once again, I cannot stress how much I appreciate all your help.

from what I can see, your card is probably: Nvidia GeForce 8200M G

lets give NVinject a shot.
download NVinjectGo.0.2.0 and NVinject_permissions.fix.

Then go to NVinject and follow the NVinject installation instructions (after all the version change-logs).

Hopefully this will do the trick, but if not... you can also try the main NVinject kext. I'm almost sure that the NVinjectGO is meant for laptops... but it might just be different model-support... so first try it with NVinjectGO, and if it doesn't work, try the NVinject.

I'm in class right now (probably should not be on here =X) but I downloaded a copy of v7 last night and installed it this morning. NO luck, in fact, worse because it wouldn't pass the grey apple in the beginning. I didn't have a chance to run it, it just got stuck there.

So, I re-installed v1.0 (iatkos)

When I get home I'll try the inject and the drivers stated above. Thanks a ton for your help!