hohoy Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 Hi to all, Well after been trying for four days in a row of doing the same thing over and over in such different ways I've decided to come and look for professional help. I am not able to install Snow Leopard in a brand new Western Digital hdd of 1 TB. I have been through tutorials, forums and every possible source of mac in order to make my new PC up and running but seems that there's something wrong with my system or at this point could say myself. I have been trying to install Snow Leopard in the new hdd followed all the tutorials step by step looking even the small details. I changed the config in Bios, BIOS boot Priority CD/DVD first PCH SATA CONTROL - change to ACHI ONBOARD SATA... all sata - change to ACHI HPET change to 64-bit mode ACPI SUSPEND - change to S3 STR removed 2gb of memory, left only four then tried with only two 2gb. Make sure that there's no other devices connected to the system other than ram, hdd, video card, dvd reader only basic components... Tutorial I have followed are these two http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/ ... -x-on.html viewtopic.php?f=81&t=11221 I'll try to explain myself as much as in detail... I have no problems at all when I put in the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] disc in. I am able to see Chamaleon screen with no problem at all. Then I take it out and put the Snow Leopard in which I just bought it from local retail store (Brand New) Press F5 and get this message Ebios read error error 0xbb block 0x0 sector 0 Ebios read error error 0xbb block 0x0 sector 0Ebios read error error 0xbb block 0x0 sector 0Ebios read error error 0xbb block 0x0 sector 0Ebios read error error 0xbb block 0x0 sector 0 Ebios read error error 0xbb block 0x1ba760 Sectors 0 Ebios read error 0xbb block 0x1ba760 Sectors 0 Type -X nothing I also try PCIRootUID=1. did not work either. Even sometimes the system makes a lot of noise and all the fans worked so fast that I though It was going to explode that really worry me a lot. After a while I kept myself reading and searching in the forum and found this Try booting with typing: GraphicsEnabler=No -v which I found here viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17556 Guess what after typed that command I was able to go further. I could see the instalation screen for the first time though I was not happy yet. Once I was in the installation screen went to Disk Utility Then formated the hdd Mac OS Extended (Journaled) name it Snow Leopard Disk Utility When the installer ask me where to install, choose Snow Leopard which I did that was the partition I just created. Choose Customize‚ and uncheck additional options to install them later as indicated At this point I was happy seeing how mac was getting installed in my system at the end of the proccess said The waited phrase Install Succeed Which I believe was correctly installed. I was wrong one more time. Computer Restart Place [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] back in drive I get to see the Chameleon boot selection screen, choose new Snow Leopard. Is here when my surprise comes....... The black screens hangs for a while and this is what I get memory allocation error! addr=0x0, size=0x8002770, File=device_inject.c, Line=246 This is a non recoverable error! System HALTED!!! After all of that I tried to do something but nothing can be done since the partition cannot be removed. In order to be able to use the hdd again. I have to put in a windows 7 disc to delete the partition and start over again, again and again. I cannot go any further than that. I also tried the two different [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] versions the Legacy and the new one. Same problem with the legacy version works worst. the cd drive is been funcional, the hdd is working fine besides is an empty brand new hdd with no OS intalled on it..... Ran test on memory dimms all of them are working perfect Please Help me I feel so desperate and do not know what else to do.... P.S: I went through this link to make sure my pc components are compatible with mac software indeed they are viewtopic.php?f=22&t=17921. System info as follows: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 SAPPHIRE 100314SR Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer Black SATA Model iHAS424-98 COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel COOLER MASTER Silent Pro RS850-AMBAJ3-US 850W ATX12V v2.3 COOLER MASTER V8 RR-UV8-XBU1-GP 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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