AMD Leopard Installation

[darrinlowe]

I am trying to install at this point any version of Leopard on my desktop. I have tried iPC 10.5.6, iDeneb 10.5.7, and iAtkos v7. I have my hard drive already partitioned into FAT32. I insert the disc for installation at startup, hit F8, -v for verbose, and get through the code that is displayed. From here it goes to the spinning beach ball where it locks up with all distros every time. I have also tried -v-x to try to boot from the DVD in safe mode, but it locks up at the same point. I am wanting to know where I am going wrong so I can atleast boot from the DVD. Below are my mobo and processor specs. I have two DVD drives, both IDE, a SATA HDD, which is partitioned for the install if I can ever get there, and a FireWire PCI x1 card. I am currently using the onboard graphics, which is where I suspect my problem lies. If this is the case, please advise on the minimum ATI card I need to install. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

ASUS M3A76-CM

 

North Bridge AMD 760G

 

South Bridge AMD SB710

 

PCI Express 2.0 x16 1

 

PCI Express x1 1

 

PCI Slots 2

 

Onboard Video Chipset ATI Radeon 3000

 

Audio Channels 8 Channels

 

LAN Chipset Realtek 8111C

 

PS/2 1

 

Video Ports D-Sub + DVI

 

USB 1.1/2.0 6 x USB 2.0

 

Audio Ports 6 Ports

 

Onboard USB 6 x USB 2.0

 

 

AMD Phenom X4 HD9750XAGHBOX

 

CPU Socket Socket AM2+

 

Multi-Core Quad-Core

 

Name Phenom 9750

 

Operating Frequency 2.4GHz

 

Hyper Transports 3600MHz

 

L1 Cache 4 x 128KB

 

L2 Cache 4 x 512KB

 

L3 Cache 2MB

 

Manufacturing Tech 65 nm

 

64 bit Support Yes

 

Hyper-Transport Support Yes

 

Virtualization Tech. Support Yes

 

Multimedia Instruction MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a,3DNOW! Professional

 

Voltage 1.20/1.25/1.30V

 

Thermal Design Power 125W