CamDAX Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Hi Long ago my machine worked without having to change "On-Chip SATA Mode" to "Combined". I used to have it set to "Enhanced" and it worked but now it hangs before tonymacx86 chameleon derivative pops up, unless I set it to "Combined". Because of this I can only access my WD with windows on it and since its a different format I can only read it. Now I used to only have 1 IDE drive and 2 SATA drives, maxtor(200GB) and WD (2TB). I had it working with that. I just had to make sure they were the right format. Now I have 3 SATA drives the maxtor and two WD. I can't remember exactly but I don't think it changed when I switched. Any ideas? Here is my system GA-G41M-ES2L Intel® G41 Chipset System Configuration: *CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale @2.93 GHz *GPU: internal + Asus EAH5770 *RAM: 5GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM '''Component Status:''' *Graphics: Asus EAH5770 DVI VGA Dual Monitors{{Y}} *Ethernet: RTL8111C/D {{Y}} *Audio: Realtek ALC888B {{Y}} * Sleep, Wakeup, Poweroff {{Y}} BIOS changes: *Optimized defaults *CPU Overclocked *On-Chip SATA Mode Combined Hard Drive configuration *WD 2TB SATA (not accecable) *WD 2TB SATA windows NTFS (readable) *200GB Maxtor SATA Mac OSx 10.9.3 Installation Method: *tonymacx86 updated from snow leopard (USB method) *easy DSDT *GraphicsEnabler "No" Oh damit I think it's the drive itself. I switched the SATA cables just now and this caused it to do it in combined mode as well. I think I am going to have to pull everything off it onto the windows drive. Format it and then put everything back. God damit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamDAX Posted November 7, 2014 Author Share Posted November 7, 2014 I don't get why it does because the drive is formated FAT32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamDAX Posted November 7, 2014 Author Share Posted November 7, 2014 I fixed it.I think the problem was the drive had a partition flag "bootable" when there is no OS installed in that drive. So I think it thought there's supposed to be a OS there and just hanged because it can't find one.Ubuntu showed me that there was that flag but it couldn't remove it. So I had to repartition the drive exFAT in Mavericks and now I can access the drive from both Windows and OSx. I didn't test Ubuntu if it could read/write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamDAX Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 Ok I was wrong. The drive got corrupted somehow so I had to reformat. I tried FAT which is what it is right now. OS x booted fine before I copied all my files back and now that I did its hanging again at the spinning line thing before chameleon. Is there any way to get it to display a console or something so I can see where it hangs with chameleon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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