kbosselman Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Help, I've been researching this for days and have seen similar questions multiple times but have never seen an answer. I'm trying to do a Retail 10.6 USB install on a Dell XPS 631i. I can see my SATA drives in the Chameleon 2.0 RC4 boot menu but not in Disk Utility in the installer. I believe my issue is that my BIOS (Phoenix 1.0.13), doesn't support setting AHCI, the only option is [AUTOMATIC]. I've tried various versions of AppleNForceATA.kext and AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext but no success. Can any one tell me if I'm beating my head against a brick wall and there is no hope of getting my SATA drives to show up without being able to set the AHCI option in the BIOS? My system details are as follows: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Quad Q9400 2.66 ghz MotherBoard: NVidia nForce 650i SLI SATA Hardware Ids: 026610DE and 026710DE Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vazzan Posted May 23, 2010 Share Posted May 23, 2010 I'm having this exact same problem with a similar motherboard I have an Asus Striker II NSE mobo which has the same bios as you do Really hitting a brick wall here as I can't find any bios updates to add the ability to change to ACHI Going to keep playing around and will let you know if I have any luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenval Posted May 23, 2010 Share Posted May 23, 2010 I'm currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 (not vanilla - pc special distro) with SATA on Enhanced IDE Mode on a Maximus II Formula mobo. BTW, when I am trying to boot with Empire EFI i got the "Still waiting for root device" error. Strange ! And when I'm trying AHCI mode my hard drive hangs and I have an EBIOS TimeOut Error from Empire EFI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medoo313 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Hi Guys........ you are not aloane same thing here having same problem with Dell Inspiron 518 G33/ICH9 Bios option for SATA (IDE/RAID) so Please Help if you can Thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mzr9mm Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Hey, I have the same problem too. I installed from an IDE DVD drive and everything was fine untill I had to choose a partition. I have 2 SATA HDDs, 1x WD 320GB and a Samsung 1TB. if I set the mode to AHCI the primary disk (320GB) hangs at the bios screen but the 1TB does just fine and if I set the bios to Enhanced SATA when I get to disk utility I don't see any of them. Any thoughts on a solution is greatly apreciated. My specs: Asus P5K Pro 4GB Corsair 800mhz 1x 320GB WD drive 1x 1TB samsung Nvidia 9400GT Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerX Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Hey,I have the same problem too. I installed from an IDE DVD drive and everything was fine untill I had to choose a partition. I have 2 SATA HDDs, 1x WD 320GB and a Samsung 1TB. if I set the mode to AHCI the primary disk (320GB) hangs at the bios screen but the 1TB does just fine and if I set the bios to Enhanced SATA when I get to disk utility I don't see any of them. Any thoughts on a solution is greatly apreciated. My specs: Asus P5K Pro 4GB Corsair 800mhz 1x 320GB WD drive 1x 1TB samsung Nvidia 9400GT Thanks I have DFI LanParty x48 mobo and it works (worked) just fine on IDE. Now I'm getting Ebios error, but has nothing to do with this setting as it worked fine until power outage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KobasA Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 configuration: Gygabite GA-m52l-s3 AMD x2 4000+ radeon 4850 mac os x is SnowLeopard 10.6.1-10.6.2 intel/AMD -hazard installation succeeded, but when want to boot from the HDD appears a gray screen and apple logo and i hear the music and then nothing happens. log file: pls help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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