westman Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 hi guys , i am new to this froum i have just downloaded the x86 osx 10.4.4 DVD and installded it on my Maxtor 80gb IDE hard drive after all the installing process done , the system says rebooting but my com hangs and got no respon ... but the loading bar ( the circle flower like thing ) is moving ... but system not rebooting at all after half an hour ... i tried twice and got the same problem.. anyone can help me ? and below is my system config AMD Sempron 64 2800+ 512 + 1GB DDR 400 Maxtor 80GB IDE HDD on board display ( VIA S3 ) thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westman Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 The version of DVD called Darwin / x86 boot v5.0.132 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changs Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 When I was installing Mac OS X I have the same problem. So I did hard reset and now I have fully works Mac OS X. Don't be scary, just do hard reboot :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westman Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 i tried a hard reboot and i got back in to bios , set the boot to hard disk and save and i restart the com , but it wont boot in to the OS , it just holding at the system check screen ( black screen ) u know why ? did i done anything wrong at installing or setup ? cos what i did is just pop the dvd in and click install , is it needs any specail techniques , like patches or something else ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changs Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Yes, you need patched iso if you want to install Mac OS X on computer with AMD processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westman Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 do u have some fuhter details of that ? i saw a folder called AMD enables in the DVD and there is a patch there but it grey out when i boot with that DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changs Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 I recommend to read this howto first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westman Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 thx a lot , i got my patches installed , i guess cos i saw that in my hard drive , the place where my osx system files is ..... just dont know why it doesnt work ... thx anyway ... i might give it up ... spending whole day to work it out ... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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