DFi Infinity 975X/ICH7 in place motherboard upgrade Need some suggestions

[DavidMIRV]

Hello, last night I upgraded my ECS 945-GCT motherboard to a DFI Infinity 975X and of course Leopard will not boot. It starts up to the apple screen then tells me I need to restart my computer after about 10-20 seconds.

 

The specs on this board are as follows per the manufacturer's website:

Chipset
Intel® 975X Express Chipset - North bridge: Intel® 975X - South bridge: Intel® ICH7R
Memory
Four 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets
Supports DDR2 533, DDR2 667 and DDR2 800 DIMMs
Supports dual channel (128-bit wide) memory interface
Supports up to 8GB system memory
Expansion Slots
2 PCI Express x16 slots - CrossFire mode: The two x16 slots each operate at x8 bandwidth. - Single VGA mode: Supports only one x16 slot operating at x16 bandwidth.
1 PCI Express x1 slot
1 PCI Express x4 slot
2 PCI slots
BIOS
Award BIOS
8Mbit flash memory
Audio
Realtek ALC882 High Definition audio CODEC
8-channel audio output
True stereo line level outputs
S/PDIF interface
LAN
Realtek RTL8111B PCIE Gigabit LAN
Fully compliant to IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T), 802.3u (100BASE-TX) and 802.3ab (1000BASE-T) standards
Serial ATA
Intel chipset supports: - Four SATA ports - SATA speed up to 3Gb/s - RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5
JMB360 chip supports: - One eSATA (external SATA) port - SATA speed up to 3Gb/s
IDE
Supports up to UltraDMA 100Mbps IDE devices
Rear Panel I/O Ports
1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
1 parallel port
1 optical S/PDIF-out port
1 RCA S/PDIF-out port
1 eSATA port
1 IEEE 1394 port
1 RJ45 LAN port
4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
Line-in, line-out (front R/L) and mic-in jacks
Center/subwoofer, rear R/L and side R/L jacks

 

I see from searching the heck out of these forums for an answer that a few other people have used this board but possibly had to do some customizations that weren't posted?

 

Starting the system with -v -s the system stops at "Mac Framework Successfully initialized Using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers"

 

Could this possibly just be a BIOS-settings problem, if so can someone please point me in the right direction as to the settings that might effect OSX ?

Thanks