a.barbarich Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 So I have been hunting down all the threads all over the interweb so far relating to the MSI Eclipse and Core i7... My Current Config is MSI Eclipse SLI Core i7 920 3x2gb Corsair 1600mhz ram MSI ATI5870 3 x 1tb Drives - Win 7 on one - General Storage on one - OSX10.6 intended to be installed on the other... Sound is done via usb anyway so XFI is irrelevant for me any way. BIOS Settings On Chip Sata is switched to AHCI HPET is now Off System is clocked to 4GHZ up from 2.67 I have Been following Bjorns guide and a few others to make some sense of whats going on... however after getting 10.5.7 installed and booting (with busratio=20 cpus=1) Ive used the automated tool to install the various bits and peices... (i have attempted using both EFI Partition and EXTRAS folder on the root of the HDD) I have a Small 80gb Sata drive that the 10.5.7 is installed to.. I have tried several of the prepackaged boot loaders on the Automated Script installer 1,2,3 & 4 Run the dsdt patcher so on so forth. after the boot loader starts running thru a massive list of kexts it all of a sudden panics... fans roar up and have to hold the power button to kill all.. This occours under all boot circumstance on the new drive with 10.6 installed.. even with the obvious boot flags to use... Im thinking i have completely missed somethign here... I didn't think i needed that many kexts just to boot this system... I also had my heart set on the Hidden EFI Partition for booting this baby... it seems the cleanest and slickest way to boot it making it all functional and fantastic.. Im almost ready to concede defeat and buy a Gigabyte board in hope that would be easier.. Any boot loader suggestions or even bios settings that i may be missing.. I have been attempting this on and off for a few months now.. and would really love to get this rig running as a hack.. my Powerbook G4 is just a bit to slow for video editing now... and i do love mac os Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/234135-core-i7-920-eclipse-sli/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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