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Im trying for the first time to get my computer to run Snow Leopard, however everytime i boot from my USB thumb drive, the fans on my gfxcard starts spinning at full speed, and my monitor's goes out.

 

Can someone please help me out on how to start from scratch?

 

Heres my system :

 

MB : EX58-UD5

CPU : i7 CPU 920

GFX : ATI 5870 (2 DVI monitors connected)

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Im trying for the first time to get my computer to run Snow Leopard, however everytime i boot from my USB thumb drive, the fans on my gfxcard starts spinning at full speed, and my monitor's goes out.

 

Can someone please help me out on how to start from scratch?

 

Heres my system :

 

MB : EX58-UD5

CPU : i7 CPU 920

GFX : ATI 5870 (2 DVI monitors connected)

 

I think you should give us more details what version of snow are you trying to install (retail, Hazard, iAtkos, ...)?

do you see anything that might be referring to Mac OS X before the monitor goes out (a bootloader, an apple, whatever)?

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I think you should give us more details what version of snow are you trying to install (retail, Hazard, iAtkos, ...)?

do you see anything that might be referring to Mac OS X before the monitor goes out (a bootloader, an apple, whatever)?

 

Sorry for the lacking info.

 

I restored the retail dvd onto a USB thumbdrive, after that i installed the Ga_x58_ud5_OSx86_pack_Thijmus_v3_5.pkg onto the drive.

 

It boots fine, but when i choose "Install Mac OS X" from the boot menu, my monitors goes blank, and the fans starts spinning at 100%.

 

 

I got the EFI installer from here :

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=203017

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Sorry for the lacking info.

 

I restored the retail dvd onto a USB thumbdrive, after that i installed the Ga_x58_ud5_OSx86_pack_Thijmus_v3_5.pkg onto the drive.

 

It boots fine, but when i choose "Install Mac OS X" from the boot menu, my monitors goes blank, and the fans starts spinning at 100%.

 

 

I got the EFI installer from here :

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=203017

 

why don't you try some custom distro first? they're usually easier to boot to GUI

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The 5870 is just getting working in the hackintosh world. That is going to be your problem spot. the board and processor are well known to the community. If U have a retail disc of Snow Leopard I'd recommend you use a kakewalk disk. Just search these forums for kakewalk. I've had a lot of trouble with USB installers.

 

I'd also have a good long look at the 5870/5850 thread.

 

Khan

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Thanks for the replies, i will try that kakewalk as i can see my motherboard drivers are included in that one.

 

Before i start, what do i need to do to make my graphics card start up with some sort of standard driver, and if i do that, can i then later update?

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Update:

 

So i installed the kakewalk efi with my motherboard drivers, and edited the GraphicsEnabler string to "No" (This made my graphicscard boot during the installation)

 

However now my problem is that everytime i try to boot onto the installation, my monitor once again goes blank, and the fan speeds up, just like when GraphicsEnabler was set to "Yes". My guess is that i need to edit the GraphicsEnabler to "No" somewere on the harddrive wich ived installed onto, however im totally lost on what to do now.

 

Edit : So i just found out that i actually could type GraphicsEnabler=No at the boot picture, sadly it didnt work. I keep getting the message "Errors encountered while starting up the computer, pausing 5 seconds", afterwards i get the black screen and the gfx fan running at 100%.

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I got mine working with iAtkos S3 v2 with -v busratio=20 but I have no audio yet (still reading ... ha ha) and my vid card is not recognized but thats not surprising neither is yours since they are both fairly new but I do have sl working for the most part.

I tried Kakewalk via thumb drive but just got kp before install which is most likely my vid card (I do have a 275 that I might try)

Sorry just noticed you have a ud5 and not a ud3r

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Shameless bump.

 

Is there any way to get my graphics card to boot up? right now it only boots from my USB drive, and i can install OS X just fine, however when i boot up on the installation i get blank monitors, and the fan on the gfx are spinning at 100%

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Ive temporaried switched the 5870 out with an 8800 GTX and now im typing from my Hackintosh, which ive updated to 10.6.4.

 

What do i need to do now in order to make my 5870 work? is there an solution yet? ive searched the threads about the 5800 series now working, however as i'm quite inexperienced i need some help on what to install, and how.

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Have the same issue with the 5870. It would not boot ultimately without the Boot132 disk and the GraphicsEnabler=n switch.

 

I tried to upgrade to 10.6.4 to see if the drivers for the 5870 are there and now I can't even load the OSX which loaded before. I get the following error. Any ideas?

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I've got a 5850 which I finally got to work. I used [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], installed combo update 10.6.5. and then added kexts from netkas.

 

[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]: http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/ibo...ac-os-x-on.html

 

Kexts and files needed for gfx: http://netkas.org/?p=465

 

In [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] i picked 32-bit graphicsenabler=No, and 64-bit graphicsenabler=No under advanced settings and it works for me! good luck!

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Have the same issue with the 5870. It would not boot ultimately without the Boot132 disk and the GraphicsEnabler=n switch.

 

I tried to upgrade to 10.6.4 to see if the drivers for the 5870 are there and now I can't even load the OSX which loaded before. I get the following error. Any ideas?

 

Sorry if this has been mentioned already: 10.6.5 apparently adds support for the 5000-series Macs. Give that a go.

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