mjamike Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Hello, I have been reading a lot lately and always hate to post when I feel like a question has already been answered but I can't seem to find a solution with my current searches. Anyways, I am attempting to follow the well written tutorial located at http://www.infinitemac.com/f19/guide-gigab...tutorial-t3187/ but I am having a problem right off the bat. I boot from the Boot132 cd, pop in the retail (backup) leopard dvd and then the machine reboots. The machine is: G31M-ES2L Motherboard Intel Pentium D Chip (also tried P4 630) 2GB DDR2 800MHz Memory IDE Hard Drive & DVD Drive on same cable (hdd is master, dvd is slave) nVidia Quadro FX Graphics (PCI Express) Tried -v flag without luck, I have done a lot of reading, but there is a great chance my mind is garbled from all the different places I have been getting my info. Here is a video of my problem: I greatly appreciate your time and effort in helping... if you are willing Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edbanger Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 You seem to do everything right. The only thing I can think of is that either your disk isn't burnt correctly, but the problem may actually be that you are usin an ide-dvd drive. Those aren't as well supported by OSX as their s-ata counterparts. Can you borrow a s-ata or USB DVD-drive to verify? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1236051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezwell Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I have the same board and had similar problems until i updated the bios to the the latest beta Regards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1236123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjamike Posted August 26, 2009 Author Share Posted August 26, 2009 Thanks to the both of you. I will try both suggestions and report back. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1236346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjamike Posted August 29, 2009 Author Share Posted August 29, 2009 Finally had some more time to play with this. I got a retail 10.5.1 DVD from a friend... which gets me to a screen that displays the apple logo but thats it. I let it sit for over an hour and it never got any further. I updated the BIOS, swapped RAM, used SATA DVD Drive and still no dice. Are there BIOS settings I need to adjust? It has to be something silly. - Mike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1240100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradleylicious Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I am using a different mobo... but having the exact same issues... I created the following thread... but have no responses... http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182501 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1240106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjamike Posted August 29, 2009 Author Share Posted August 29, 2009 I am using a different mobo... but having the exact same issues... I created the following thread... but have no responses... http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182501 Welp if I figure it out I will definitely let ya know We will get to the bottom of it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1240111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradleylicious Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Welp if I figure it out I will definitely let ya know We will get to the bottom of it. I will do the same... I figure if we both have different boards than we must be doing something silly... I have done a lot of Bios Fine Tuning... So I am at a loss... I will keep searching tho... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1240112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradleylicious Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I am just currious but are you using a blank hard drive with no partitions or any data? I am not... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1240144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjamike Posted August 29, 2009 Author Share Posted August 29, 2009 I am just currious but are you using a blank hard drive with no partitions or any data? I am not... At first the drive had data on it, I figured that might be an issue so I FDISK'd the drive and tried again. No dice. About to start tinkering now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1240670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradleylicious Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 So for kicks and giggles I tried a Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 DVD and I was actually able to get into the Install... I partitioned the drive and began the process... However... Midway through the install it just cut out and gave me boot.plist error... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1240798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjamike Posted August 29, 2009 Author Share Posted August 29, 2009 So for kicks and giggles I tried a Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 DVD and I was actually able to get into the Install... I partitioned the drive and began the process... However... Midway through the install it just cut out and gave me boot.plist error... Brad, I needed to use a different CPU. P4 630 and Pentium D 940 wouldn't work, but a Core 2 Duo E7400 worked great. I feel dumb because I should have tried different CPU way before this. I am about to continue with install and I will report back if any more issues occur. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1241199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradleylicious Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Brad,I needed to use a different CPU. P4 630 and Pentium D 940 wouldn't work, but a Core 2 Duo E7400 worked great. I feel dumb because I should have tried different CPU way before this. I am about to continue with install and I will report back if any more issues occur. Glad to here you are up and running... I can't use another cpu... Atom 330 onboard... But from the looks of all the others with this setup, they are up and running... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1241581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjamike Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 Glad to here you are up and running... I can't use another cpu... Atom 330 onboard... But from the looks of all the others with this setup, they are up and running... Damn, that sucks man. Well I am learning more and more each time I tinker so if I stumble upon anything in my research I will contact you. Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/181759-retail-install-making-me-feel-super-dumb-gigabyte-g31m-e2sl/#findComment-1243234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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