liquid_gabe Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 I've been running Tiger for a couple years now on my Asus P5L-VM 1394. Works perfectly, but had to upgrade to Leopard. I've come back to the spot that got me going so well in the first place, but with much less success. First I tried 10.5.2 Kalway, and then 10.5.5 iDeneb, and have had the same problem both times, the USB keyboard and mouse freeze erratically for about a second out of every 10-12 seconds, and my ipod doesn't sync. So, I decided to try the retail install with boot 132. The 132 disk boots fine, but the leopard disc loads the grey apple screen and then stops spinning. From what I gather, I need a custom boot disk, but am lost as to what kexts it should include for my older motherboard. 945 and ich7 chipsets IDE DVD drive 7300 graphics card Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154457-retail-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
flock44 Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Short n Simple Solution get yourselves a SATA DVD Drive. I had exactly same issue. Good Luck... I've been running Tiger for a couple years now on my Asus P5L-VM 1394. Works perfectly, but had to upgrade to Leopard. I've come back to the spot that got me going so well in the first place, but with much less success. First I tried 10.5.2 Kalway, and then 10.5.5 iDeneb, and have had the same problem both times, the USB keyboard and mouse freeze erratically for about a second out of every 10-12 seconds, and my ipod doesn't sync. So, I decided to try the retail install with boot 132. The 132 disk boots fine, but the leopard disc loads the grey apple screen and then stops spinning. From what I gather, I need a custom boot disk, but am lost as to what kexts it should include for my older motherboard. 945 and ich7 chipsets IDE DVD drive 7300 graphics card Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154457-retail-help/#findComment-1088573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_gabe Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 No go - the SATA drive does the same thing. Any other ideas? The system worked perfectly with 10.4.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154457-retail-help/#findComment-1088781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_gabe Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 Update: I've made a run at creating a custom boot-132, using boot-132-disc_maker. I added all of the kexts that osx86tools identified for my system and I still get the same result - grey apple screen, or black screen with -v. The disc just stops spinning. This seems like a basic and compatible system. The only real question I have is with my CPU. It is a dual core (ss3 okay), but not a core 2. I've checked out whatever bios settings I could find, but no go. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/154457-retail-help/#findComment-1095276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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