Restarts on install

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Hello

 

I think i have the kaloway disc, had it ages but only just got around to buying better hardware to install it.

 

I recenlty brought:

 

Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 Skt775 AGP/PCiEx

Intel Core2 Duo E4600 Retail

Kingston 1GB DDR2 PC2-5300 (667 MHz) x2 (2GB intotal)

Maxtor 160 GB SATA II 7200 RPM

 

And i also have inside this PC:

 

GeForce 6800 GTS 512mb DDR3 AGP

700w ATX-A PSU

Trust Opticial Expert 5.1 Sound Card PCI

PCI Fax Modem

Liton DVD Writer IDE

Sony DVD Reader IDE

 

When i come to install 10.5 it loads to the 'Press any key to install' screen then just restarted back to post after i press a key, if i press F8 then -v it seems to start loading things (about 6 things) then always as one message comes up it restarts, its to fast to read but the message starts with 'starting darwin' i think.

 

I have tryed many of combinations including taking out the sata2 hdd and putting a 320gb ide one in and its the same, i have tired the CD on my laptop which is a intel celron 1.5 and it gets further but fails due to incompatable hardware (hense the buying of new hardware), i have tired both DVD drives to.

 

Is anything i brought not compatable??

 

I wanted 4gb of 800mhz ram but i also wanted to keep my graphics card which is a AGP and the only board they had with AGP on was the one i brought which is 2gb max.

 

Im not to bothered if i have to buy a new board and a PCIe graphics card if i can have 4gb and os 10.5 running but would love to keep my current graphics card as its very good and cost me a bomb last year.

 

I am currently obtaining a TOH intel only verion of mac os 10.5 to see if its the image im using?

 

If anyone has any advice or input i would aprecaite it!

 

Thank You

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Right, i have the ToH image and all works great untill i get to select destination where to install!!

 

There is not thing in the list, when i open Disk Utility its not showing any partitions and in System Profiler its saying that there is no Serial ATA devices installed yet its an sataii hdd thats inside the machine

 

Can anyone help please??

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so SATA 2 is no good as standard then??

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sorry, I edited my post.

 

it said:

i believe for leopard to install w/o a workaround you need a SATA dvd drive. Theres probably a workaround, but I don't know it.

 

now that u got into setup, its probably something else.

 

SATA 2 is fine. I'm gonna guess the incompatibility is the VIA chipset and probably VIA sata controller on your mobo.

also, AGP might be a problem for you later on (albeit i believe its fixable if u look around enough)

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Bios update or is there another way?? would an IDE HDD work as i have 320gb doing nothing?

 

ahh i see so i should be using a SATA DVD drive to install with as im already at the select destination to install to screen im guessing that wouldn't be the problem, its not seeing the partition i created so there is nothing in the list to select a place for it to installAlso in the System Profiler it says there is no SATA devices installed but there is a 160gb SATA2 HDD installed, vista is installed on one partition and i have created a 2ed for os 10.5 following these instructions http://osx86.thefreesuite.com/leo_intel.php i would profer to have installed os 10.5 then used there boot vista feacture!