fraggy4 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 So I decided last night to install OS X on my custom built PC, because my mom wanted to see what it was like before she bought a mac. Well I've had it installed on a laptop before with some problems, but it at least ran. Now I have a 50gb unformatted partition and I tried using iATKOS v7 last night and it ended up going into a reboot loop seconds after booting from the DVD, and I ended up having to use a Recovery disc after because my Windows installation said BOOTMGR is missing (But I fixed that). My specs are: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P 4GB Memory XFX XXX Edition Radeon HD 5770 I think that's all the important information needed about the specs, so if anyone can help me figure out just what I need to do it would be really great, I don't want to have to reinstall Windows because I made a mistake. Oh I forgot to mention my ultimate goal is to get Snow Leopard on this, but I don't mind starting off with Leopard if I have to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 The "right distro" is the most recent one which works with your hardware. Snow Leopard by Hazard should do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggy4 Posted September 13, 2010 Author Share Posted September 13, 2010 So I should be all set with this release? It's downloading right now, I'm just wondering if there's anything else I'll need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I'm just wondering if there's anything else I'll need. Search and read, search and read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggy4 Posted September 13, 2010 Author Share Posted September 13, 2010 Well, this is what happened last time, it gets to this point and then instantly reboots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggy4 Posted September 15, 2010 Author Share Posted September 15, 2010 Still haven't figured this out, every release I've tried reboots at the same place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Unfortunately I am totally unfamiliar with AMD CPUs and ATI graphics cards. All I know is that they are more problematic for this project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggy4 Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 Yeah tell me about it. I've tried 3 other discs and none work :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Yeah tell me about it. I've tried 3 other discs and none work :/ Is it a IDE or sata dvd drive and have you tried different DVD /Hard drive port combinations. And have you access to an external USB DVD drive, that sometimes works when the onboard DVD is problematic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraggy4 Posted September 18, 2010 Author Share Posted September 18, 2010 DVD drive is SATA, haven't tried any of the other options, and I don't have a USB DVD drive either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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