Bought a second hand pc and want to hackintosh it

[tpad]

Hi guys,

I've recently bought a second hand pc with the following specs:

 

Motherboard: Asus M2N-CM DVI

Processor: AMD DUAL CORE 2.7GHZ

Graphics Card: Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce 8600GT

Hard Disk: IDE Seagate Barracuda 80gb

 

I've tried 3 different distributions and all I get is a waiting for root device error. What do you think? Should I buy a SATA HDD to solve the problem? or do I have to replace the motherboard and processor?

 

THANKS

 

~tpad

[Generic George]

Hi guys,

I've recently bought a second hand pc with the following specs:

 

Motherboard: Asus M2N-CM DVI

Processor: AMD DUAL CORE 2.7GHZ

Graphics Card: Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce 8600GT

Hard Disk: IDE Seagate Barracuda 80gb

 

I've tried 3 different distributions and all I get is a waiting for root device error. What do you think? Should I buy a SATA HDD to solve the problem? or do I have to replace the motherboard and processor?

 

THANKS

 

~tpad

 

Unfortunately, the AMDs are a lot more effort to make work as a hackintosh, if it's even possible. So essentially you are better off chucking them. The motherboard is really the key component to making the hackintosh work. So choose carefully.

 

A sata HD will definitely make things easier, as will a SATA dvd drive. The graphics card should work fine.