Dell Studio 1535 X3100 Black Screen Issues

[nickhamm]

Specs:
Intel Pentium T3200 2.0Ghz CPU
4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 RAM
250GB Hitachi Hard Drive
Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset (with GM965/X3100 video)
BIOS A06, latest available


I used the OSx86 modCD (iBoot gave me black screen issue) to successfully install Mac OS 10.6.0 from my retail CD. However, on first boot, it played the music and voiceover prompt, but my screen is black with no backlight. If i let it sit long enough to "sleep" then wake it up, the screen turns on, but it's white with fading color lines on a grayish background (like a broken screen.)

I looked into the issue and tried to boot with:
PCIRootUID=0 (and =1), no change
GraphicsEnabler=Yes (and =No), no change
-x, no video, no sound, no nothing after Apple loading logo

So I tried a suggestion to delete AppleIntelGMAX3100.kext (which I did in single user mode) and boot with arch=i386 which also resulted in the same black screen. Booting in normal 64bit mode netted the same result. Booting verbose doesn't show any errors that stand out to me related to video output.

I am out of ideas to get the graphics to work on this thing as all the solutions I've seen so far have been a bust.

 

[RehabMan]

Post output of 'lspci -nn' in Linux Terminal.

 

[nickhamm]

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) [8086:2a02] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) [8086:2a03] (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 04)
00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 04)
00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 04)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 04)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 04)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:2849] (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2829] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 04)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1698] (rev 10)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

 

[RehabMan]

Keep in mind X3100 is only supported in 32-bit mode.

 

[nickhamm]

I tried booting with arch=i386 and it didn't help. Same black screen issue.

 

[RehabMan]

I tried booting with arch=i386 and it didn't help. Same black screen issue.

You definitely need graphics injection (GraphicsEnabler=Yes) with that graphics device.

 

[nickhamm]

"arch=i386 GraphicsEnabler=Yes" still gives me a black screen.

 

[RehabMan]

"arch=i386 GraphicsEnabler=Yes" still gives me a black screen.

Did you try an HDMI monitor? Also, you might use google to find some clues. Your hardware is old and outside my experience.