Video Only in Safe mode.

MSI K8n NEO4F (ver 1) bios 7125ncg
ENERMAX Whisper EG465P-VE FMA(24)
nVidia 7600GS 256MB
OCZ EB DDR PC-4000 /500MHz
Win XP Pro w/SP2
AMD 3700+ (939)
The video will work, correctly, in safe mode only. Using latest nVidia drivers.
Boots fine till we hit the log on screen then monitor goes black with no signal.
Can boot to safe mode fine. Removed drivers, ran driver cleaner, rebooted to safe mode and ran driver cleaner again.
Booted to safe mode again to install driver package to same result in normal windows (blank screen)
Wondering if card may be faulty as the screen does not look quite right when booting using only windows native drivers. I can pull an identical card from rig in sig to test. Just looking for suggestions here.
Thanks
lbiel

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 18-November-07, 06:06:42
hit "F8" after bios post, and choise "Enable VGA Mode". boot normally and setup correct refresh rates.
check dual view & TV out settings too.
I had tried that once and resolution was VERY low and only 4 colors. Just 2 options each to change and the slider and drop down menu would not except the change and or move. Windows tried to adjust on it's own and the screen had a greenish tint to it. Still looked better in safe mode and booting normally was OK except for low res and color.(Still greenish)
I'm gonna swap the card out tomorrow morning

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Process:               fontd [337]
Path:                  /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ ATS.framework/Versions/A/Support/fontd
Identifier:            fontd
Version:               375
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           fontd [337]
User ID:               501
Date/Time:             2014-12-26 12:21:45.036 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        3D86DE4D-DF6F-C140-16F8-4F80DBCD6634
Time Awake Since Boot: 250 seconds
Crashed Thread:        2 Dispatch queue: Scanner Queue
Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       EXC_I386_GPFLT

EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)
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I can boot my Mac Mini only in safe mode

I've tried recovery mode but it hangs with a blank linen screen and the pointer stuck in the top LH corner. At this point the mouse doesn't seem to be working properly the motion sensing LED doesn't flash when the mouse is moved and flashes more brightly when the mouse is clicked.
I've tried resetting PRAM and PMU and SMC but to no avail.
Selecting boot from the recovery partition just hangs.
Creating a recovery drive (USB 'stick' or USB drive) with the Recovery Disk Assistant just hangs.
I've created a 2nd partition and cloned the startup partition to it. Attempting to boot from that just hangs.
I notice, also, that the system serial number is missing; presumably it wasn't re-entered following the replacement of the logic board, recently. I hadn't noticed until now.
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BDAqua wrote:
Hello, old info, but basically the same I'd think for 10.7.x...
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Actually, safe mode is the only thing that works (this message is brought to you by my sponsor - safe mode). If I leave recovery boot hanging it will eventualy reboot after 5-10 mins.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
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/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons
Thanks for the list. I've had a look in there but there doesn't seem to be anything untoward (although, how can you tel by looking)? I have a few 3rd party preference panes but they don't seem to have caused a problem in the past. I suppose I'll have to figure out how to ininstall them one-by-one.
Incidentally, I have tried Lion Internet Recovery, too. It seems to download (presumably) the disk image but hangs when the system rebots. The recovery utilities never appear.

Disable Lion video driver, without Safe Mode?

We have an old 2.0 ghz 17" Intel iMac with Lion installed, which is used exclusively for managing iPads. The iMac has no other purpose in life, and is only turned on to download iPad software updates and run Apple Configurator.
This summer the iMac suddenly stopped working. It shows a random broken image when it boots and the system eventually freezes with a forever-spinning cursor. Apparently this is due to the soldered-in 3D graphics accelerator developing a problem, and which seems endemic to this model of Intel iMac.
However, I discovered that Recovery mode works fine...
And I can reinstall Lion...
But after two attempts to reinstall Lion, that doesn't help at all.
I then discovered that Safe Mode also works fine, and then that Safe Mode allows me to boot a backup of the previous configuration before reinstalling Lion. I am in fact typing this message using Safe Mode on the iMac.
So the iMac works okay in Safe Mode, and I see it is possible to permanently enable Safe Mode...
sudo nvram boot-args="-x"
However safe mode tends to degrade lots of other system capabilities also, such as no sound, plug-in USB flash drives don't work, etc.
Is there a way to just disable the video acceleration driver alone, but load everything else normally?

I found the solution I was looking for.
The iMac works fine (with safe mode disabled), if I just disable the ATI Radeon X1000 video driver.
This can be done by either deleting this file or moving it to another folder:
/System/Library/Extensions/ATIRadeonX1000.kext
Related threads that lead me to this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2570597
http://superuser.com/questions/73518/ati-x1600-driver-problem-on-mac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viaVumyro3o

ITunes opens only in safe mode; freezes upon normal opening (possible solutions that I found to similar problems don't seem to apply)

Hello. I've encountered a problem with my iTunes that I would like some help on solving. My computer uses Windows Vista. iTunes recently began to freeze as soon as I opened its window. On two occasions, it appeared to work the first time after turning the computer on, but would freeze upon subsequent openings. No error messages are given. It will either freeze while saying "Accessing iTunes Store," or without saying anything at all. However, iTunes appears to work just fine when I open it in safe mode (holding Shift + Ctrl while opening), although I have not yet attempted to sync a device while using safe mode. I attempted to update iTunes to its most recent version (10.6.3.25) after first experiencing this problem. The first time I tried, it didn't work, saying that "errors occured" during the update. I disabled my antivirus software (Kaspersky Antivirus 2012) and tried again. This time, my computer said that the update was successful. However, the freezing problem has persisted.
After looking through Apple support and other discussion topics, I found several things to check for (relating to similar problems) as follows. I checked for them, but they don't seem to apply to my situation. Here is what i found.
From Apple Support:
Check for third-party plugins in the following two folders:
-C:\Users\username\App Data\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iTunes Plug-ins\
Result: I found this folder, but it is empty, even with "Show hidden files and folders" enabled.
-C:\Program Files\iTunes\Plug-ins
Results: I did not find a "Plug-ins" folder in this directory, nor in the iTunes directory in Program Files (x86). However, there is a "Mozilla Plugins" folder in the (x86) directory, containing files "npitunes.dll" and "npitunes.xpt."
From Community Discussions:
-Conflict with Advanced SystemCare security tool by IObit or iCloud Control Panel
Result: These do not appear to be installed on my computer.
I also found something about Bonjour service, and that some people's similar problems were temporarily resolved when disabling Bonjour and reopening iTunes. I tried this, but it did not make a difference.
Does anyone have any ideas of what might be causing this? Thanks for the help!

No error messages are given. It will either freeze while saying "Accessing iTunes Store," or without saying anything at all.
I'd try the following document:
Apple software on Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
(If there's a SpeedBit LSP showing up in Autoruns, it's usually best to just uninstall your SpeedBit Video Accelerator.)

MacBook Pro will not boot, only in safe mode. Tried Everything!

My MacBook Pro was working fine yesterday. Went to boot it up today, and it freezes on the Apple grey boot screen, will not progress further.
It does however start in safe mode, but will not start normally.
I've tried everything I can find, reset the PRAM, reinstalled OS X, ran the Apple Hardware test which came back clear, I don't know what else to try and why it's not working. It's been fine until now. Please help! Thank you

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in safe mode.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click the line of text below to select it:
for k in /Sy*/L*/Ex*/{,.?}*.kext; do test -f "$k/Contents/Info.plist" && /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleIdentifier" "$_" | egrep -qv "apple|Accusys|ArcMSR|ATTO|CalDigit|HighPoint|hp-fax|JMicron|print|SoftRAID|stex" && echo $k; done | open -f -a TextEdit
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Post the contents of that window, if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. You can then close the TextEdit window. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that. No typing is involved in this step.
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook | open -f -a TextEdit
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
Note: If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before taking this step. If that’s not possible, skip to the next step.
Step 3
Repeat with this line:
ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null | open -f -a TextEdit
Important: If you formerly synchronized with a MobileMe account, your me.com email address may appear in the output of the above command. If so, anonymize it before posting.
Step 4
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' 2> /dev/null | open -f -a TextEdit
Remember, Steps 1-4 are all copy-and-paste — no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output.
You can then quit Terminal.

No Internet, only in Safe Mode

Hello,
I have following Problem with my Mid 2011 iMac on Moutain Lion.
When i start at the normal Mode, Safari says it can't for i.e. connet to www.google.at ( this is for every webpage), non of my other programms can connect to the internet.
When i start the assisstant and a diagnostic, it says that everything is fine, "pc is connected to the internet", when i ping at www.google.at, it works everything is transmitted and received.
When i pull-out the ethernet or wifi and want to use safari, it recognizes, that there is no network and suggests my a diagnose, so my os recignizes a difference between "cant connect to internet" and "really isnt connected to internet".
I have the same settings since i bought my mac and everything was the same since then and started going insane since yesterday 4 pm.
At this moment i left my mac, but didnt shut down, before that i have done 2 things, my iphone was synced but went in auto-lock so wifi was deactivated and my itunes on mac didnt find it, so i released it inside of itunes and before that, got some error that my itunes cant find my iphone.
And i deleted my icloud account in mail.app because imap and smtp dindnt work since 22. Sept., i cant activate Mail in my iCloud Controlpannel, it says i have to setup mail in my mailapp, when i start add it in maillapp, it says imap and smtp server doesnt respond. But this is another problem, maybe?
So when i came back after i left my mac, since then osx cant connect to the internet, but has a connection, so it must be blocket, because pinging works.
So i tryed to delete Little Snitch 3, with Appcleaner but i still have the icon in my menubar, so some files maybe still are on my system maybe some of those which cause this error, i also deleted avast.
Another programm i have installed is GlimmerBlocker, the AppleSupport told my i have to try a clean delete of those 3 programms with maccleaner os x Firewall is not activated.
My question is, could there be another know issue cause this, where can i else look for the couse of that problem, could it be a malware?
Thank you

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then either copy or drag it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Copy or drag — do not type — the line below into the Terminal window, then press return:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
Post the lines of output (if any) that appear below what you just entered (the text, please, not a screenshot.) You can omit the final line ending in “$”.
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|edu\.mit|org\.(amavis|apache|cups|isc|ntp|postfix|x)/{print $3}'
This time, you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. You don't need to post the warning.
Note: If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before taking this step. If that’s not possible, skip to the next step.
Step 3
launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|edu\.mit|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'
Step 4
ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null
Important: If you formerly synchronized with a MobileMe account, your me.com email address may appear in the output of the above command. If so, anonymize it before posting.
Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' 2> /dev/null
Remember, steps 1-5 are all drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste, whichever you prefer — no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output.
You can then quit Terminal.

Webpage displays correctly only in safe mode

A pop up window on ebay does not show correctly in Firefox. It shows correctly (fully displaying all information) in Safari and Chrome.
I reset Firefox, still same issue.
The weird thing is, it displays properly in Safe Mode.
I noticed that once the pop up window is open and if I scroll down to hide the pop up window either on top or the bottom of the screen, and then scroll back to display the popped up window, IT DISPLAYS ALL CONTENT PROPERLY!
If I only scroll up or down to hide HALF the popped up window, it will literally only show half the content that was hidden from view for a second and the rest of the content in the pop up window does not show ALL the contents.
I can't figure out what is causing this. There are no extensions installed. I tried disabling ALL the plug-ins. Same issue.
Any ideas what is causing this?

If it works in Safe Mode and in normal mode with all extensions (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) disabled then try to find which extension is causing it by enabling one extension at a time until the problem reappears.
Close and restart Firefox after each change via "Firefox > Exit" (Windows: Firefox/File > Exit; Mac: "Firefox > Quit Firefox"; Linux: "Firefox/File > Quit")
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Make sure that you haven't enabled a High Contrast theme in the Windows/Mac Accessibility settings and that you allow pages to choose their colors in Firefox.
*Firefox > Preferences > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Website_colors_are_wrong
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Websites_look_wrong

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