n00bslash Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Hey, i tried installing Leopard on my PC, on a new hard drive (Western Digital-160 gigabytes) with XP on the other. i go through the installation fine, set my bios to boot from the OS X hard drive after clicking restart, and it goes into a boot loop. When i power on it opens to black screen with OS choices, when i pick Leopard it and immediately restarts my computer over and over. I think it may be a graphics card problem(I have an ATI Radeon 7000 Radeon VE Family) if it is i also have an ATI Rage 128 card that i can put in. Here are my specs from Belarc Advisor: (hope this is enough info) Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600) Mind Computer Products Mind Master P4 SU 2000M Processor a Main Circuit Board b 2.55 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 8 kilobyte primary memory cache 512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P4B533VM REV 1.xx Bus Clock: 133 megahertz BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS P4B533-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 1005 10/24/2002 Drives Memory Modules c,d 240.05 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 91.15 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8481B [CD-ROM drive] HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B [CD-ROM drive] JSD 1Q38PMRSH6RW SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive] QT0004Y JJQ308Z SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] ST3802110A [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 9LR323RG, rev 3.AAJ, SMART Status: Healthy WDC WD1600AAJB-22WRA0 [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 1, s/n WD-WCAS28146544, rev 58.01H58, SMART Status: Healthy 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'DIMM 1' has 512 MB Slot 'DIMM 2' has 512 MB Local Drive Volumes c: (NTFS on drive 0) 80.02 GB 5.58 GB free g: (NTFS on drive 1) 160.03 GB 85.57 GB free Thanks!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147150-problem-on-custom-system/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Does it loop before or after the Darwin bootloader screen? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147150-problem-on-custom-system/#findComment-1042821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00bslash Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 the bootloader comes up, when i select and try to boot from leopard it has a spinning character(/\|/|\ type thing) then system crashes and reboots Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147150-problem-on-custom-system/#findComment-1042873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanceomni Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 the bootloader comes up, when i select and try to boot from leopard it has a spinning character(/\|/|\ type thing) then system crashes and reboots try pressing F8 and booting with -v -f -x Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147150-problem-on-custom-system/#findComment-1042887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00bslash Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 i'll try that! thanks, i'll be back on in a while. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147150-problem-on-custom-system/#findComment-1042915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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