WoodroweBones Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Hey everyone, I recently decided to try and put OSX on my PC. I grabbed iAtkos v7 and followed the pretty basic steps of partitioning/formatting my drive and installing OSX. The install completed and when it rebooted I would get to a grey screen with an apple logo that would eventually show an icon of a do not enter type sign. So I rebooted and used the -v option and found that it was stalling right after trying to load the Jmicron driver which drives my SATA chipset. At first I just thought it was a driver issue and started looking for a solution. I found the "Best OSX Hardware" link listing good motherboards to use and to my surprise I'm using one of the highest recommended boards (Gigabyte P35). So I did some more reading and while nobody specifically mentioned AHCI they did mention a BIOS setting to do with the hard drive so I decided to try with AHCI on. This time the booting continued after the Jmicron message! I thought I had it... but just as it was about to boot into the GUI I got a weird scrambled screen that looked like the video card was having issues. I assumed thats what it was and decided to try booting my Windows 7 with AHCI on. It did the exact same thing. So what I'm wondering is... do I need to have AHCI on while installing OSX in order for it to boot? In this case it would be annoying as I'd have to change a BIOS setting each time I decided to boot the other OS but at least it would work. I just havent seen anyone specifically mention AHCI so I'm not sure if thats the root of my issue or not. Any info appreciated. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200975-iatkos-v7-troubles/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodroweBones Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 Just an update. I switched my comp to AHCI and got my Windows 7 working when it was in AHCI. So I reinstalled OSX and now I get past the grey apple screen but as soon as the GUI is supposed to show I get a garbled screen. I think the OS is still loaded in the background but I just cant see anything because the screen is all crazy. I'm going to try installing again and use the customize option to see if there is some sort of video driver I can specify. I have an ATI Radeon 3870... anyone know of any issues with this card? EDIT: Noticed under Customize I can specify ATI drivers as well as many others like AHCI and JMicron. Trying with these being installed. Hopefully this will work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200975-iatkos-v7-troubles/#findComment-1351487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodroweBones Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 Ok another update... Installing with those options got it working. I still have 2 issues though. The first is my wireless card. I have an MSI PC54G3 which is an Ralink RT256x chipset (PCI). I have downloaded the Mac drivers from ralink but I cant get it work. Keeps saying No Device. The other issue is when I shutdown eveything looks good but then my monitor goes black and nothing happens until I manually reset the computer. I'm sure the shutdown issue must be known. Anyone have any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200975-iatkos-v7-troubles/#findComment-1351543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodroweBones Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 Well even though I'm basically just talking to myself I got my shutdown issue fixed. I used KextHelper to install the OpenHaltRestart kext. Still cant get my wireless working though Looks like it wants a USB device and not a PCI card Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200975-iatkos-v7-troubles/#findComment-1351818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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