uPod Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Hey guys I have been trying to get OSX running on my laptop all night and have not had any success. I have a copy of Mac OS X Leopard OSx86 v10.5.1 *KALYWAY* and running a P4-M at 1.86Ghz single core, 512MB RAM, Intel 910GM card, 80gig HDD all on a Compaq Presario 4000. I have deleted all partitions on the drive using Windows' FDISK as when I first tried installing OSX it made it past the loading section where it loads all the files with text only mode, but when it came to the GUI to actually begin the install it said it could not install on the drive. Now that I have formatted the drive it does all the loading which takes around 30 minutes and before the GUI loads a light blue screen shows up and nothing happens, it just hangs there. What can I do to get it working? That's all the information I could find online about the laptop. Any help is appreciated, thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Minstrel Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Did you format it in Leo's Disk Utilities? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-799727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uPod Posted June 28, 2008 Author Share Posted June 28, 2008 Nope. Windows FDISK using a Windows 2003 CD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-799741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gauravsuneja Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 even i tried to do it on laptop but the sata hdd leo / leo disk utilities it doesn't identify once it identifies it even when it formats it can't mount and if i try to do with parted magic it show the whole hdd without any partitions or file system what to do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-799810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uPod Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 Oh ok. Hopefully someone with more experience can help us out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-800328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uPod Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-800451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uPod Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 Alright I just ran some software on the laptop to find more information on the hardware. Hopefully it is enough info. Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard Model 309D Version 52.0C Chipset Vendor Intel Corporation Chipset Model 82915PM/GM/GMS, 82910GML Host Bridge South Bridge 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge SMBus Intel Corporation 82801FB (ICH6) SMBus Controller @18A0h CPU Intel Pentium M Cpu Socket Socket 479 [u1] Processor Upgrade Slot 1 Max CPU Speed 1866 MHz System Slots 1 PCMCIA OnBoard devices Video (Enabled) 64 Memory Summary Location System board or motherboard Maximum Capacity 3072 MBytes Memory Slots 2 Error Correction None Use System memory CPU Instruction MMX, SSE, SSE2 Thanks guys. Did I choose the wrong OSX to run? Any help is appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-800596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuhkaX Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 @uPod So you can get it to load? But on reboot you just get a plain blue screen? Do you get a mouse? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-800601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uPod Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 Nope no mouse. The little Apple logo comes up and it looks like its working and then a light blue screen comes up and nothing happens. I have waited 10 minutes and nothing changes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-800604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuhkaX Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 try this somewhere on the keyboard you should have a way to use an external monitor. On my IBM its Fn+F7, yours might be the same. Or it could be Shift+F7 usually it is a function key that has a little pic of a monitor on it. So when you get to the grey screen, hit Fn+F7 or whatever your key combination would be. See if that gets you to the login screen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-800611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uPod Posted June 30, 2008 Author Share Posted June 30, 2008 I am not sure if that will work man because even caps lock does not work on the laptop. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-801110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uPod Posted June 30, 2008 Author Share Posted June 30, 2008 Hey guys I really want to get this working. Is it worth me trying to install 10.5.2? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-801670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uPod Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112984-noob-trying-to-install-on-laptop/#findComment-802643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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