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Cannot Boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes with ATI Radeon HD 3400, need help please!

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Okay so the UniBeast/Mountain Lion installation went fine on my Dell Inspiron 530 with ATI (now AMD I guess) Radeon HD 3400 graphics, but I can't use 'em. Just comes up with the crappy default resolution. When I boot into Mountain Lion with GraphicsEnabler=Yes, I get a hang on something like "com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication" and then "process killed" or something along those lines. Note that no Apple ID is being used on the OS and this doesn't happen with GraphicsEnabler=No, where I can boot with no issues.

Is there a driver in multibeast/on the intertubes that can fix this? Here are my hardware specs, in case you were wondering...

Intel Pentium Dual-Core @ 2.5 GHz
6gb RAM
Dell 0FM586 A00 mb
Intel P35/G33/G31 chipset
Dell BIOS 1.0.18
PCI-Express Graphic Interface x16
As I said, ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series RV620 258MB
My monitor is just a basic generic one by Hanns-G

Thanks, hopefully I'll be able to resolve this!

UPDATE: With GraphicsMode set to 1440x900 in org.chameleon.Boot.plist, I get a resolution of 1152x864, but still no options. Not what I want.
 
I had a Inspiron 530 running Lion.

Your video card is one that I have only seen once before a few days ago.
Somebody told the poster to try another card.

When GE=no you are just using fixed mode graphics without acceleration.
That card is very old school and does not have much memory.
Look at Tonymac Wiki and Customac builds for video cards.
A cheap card that would work would be GT 210 or GT430. ($20-$50 )

Some of the old cards like x 600 through x 2400 were dropped by ML.
These were used by Apple.

When it hangs it isn't just what it says...but what it doesn't say next.
 
That card used to be OOB.
It was dropped in Mountain Lion.
I suspect the same thing for 10.7.5.
10.7.5 added new video drivers so it probably dropped old ones.

A newer mid range card is a good long term investment.
 
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