kikimimi Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 I have an intel i7 920 with an Asus P6T and an old IDE HDD made by WD. I tried to follow the guide provided here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=208724 The very disc that was supposed to work with my mother board, the one that guide provides hangs when I try to go to the boot disc whereas the 132MARS boot disc boots up to the installation page. My USB and SATA is recognized while my IDE is ignored. I know that If I had OSX I would be able to make my very own Chameleon boot disc with kexts, but what about in windows? What do I need to run IDE drives properly? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243655-p6t-mobo-with-ide-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 Your motherboard most likely has the ICH10 SATA controller. The ICH10 (as well as the ICH10R) has no PATA ports, so your PATA ports are provided by a secondary hard drive controller. You need to find out what make and model it is so that you can find the right driver for it. ASUS normally uses PATA controllers from Silicon image, Marvell or JMicron. /Ultra pedantic mode I realize everybody does it, but calling it "IDE" is wrong, since SATA is actually IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics, stupid acronym) as well. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243655-p6t-mobo-with-ide-hdd/#findComment-1623657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikimimi Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 Your motherboard most likely has the ICH10 SATA controller. The ICH10 (as well as the ICH10R) has no PATA ports, so your PATA ports are provided by a secondary hard drive controller. You need to find out what make and model it is so that you can find the right driver for it. ASUS normally uses PATA controllers from Silicon image, Marvell or JMicron. /Ultra pedantic mode I realize everybody does it, but calling it "IDE" is wrong, since SATA is actually IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics, stupid acronym) as well. Thanks for clearing the IDE thing up, people on this forum seem to use that term instead and it made the searching process a lot easier. It seems that the P6T uses JMicron® JMB363 as a PATA controller, now the boot image provided by user dgobe that is made specifically for this motherboard seems to already the kext for pata drivers inside, but the boot disc hangs all the time in the text based environment before the snowleopard installation interface even loads up, whereas the other boot disc not made specifically for my mother board, ie. MAR132 seems to work fine but it won't recognize PATA... What would cause the boot disc to hang? BTW this is the image I am talking about: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=208724 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243655-p6t-mobo-with-ide-hdd/#findComment-1623699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 The guide says that the CD only works with P6T V1 and V2, check that you don't have a V3 or whatever. Make sure you have the BIOS settings down, there's a bunch of photos of BIOS screens in the guide. If you're absolutely sure that it should work, then try a CMOS reset. This is motherboard C.P.R. CLEAR!! Unplug the PSU from the mains, remove the motherboard battery and close the CLRRTC jumper for five minutes. Remember you'll have to set all the BIOS settings again before booting. If it still doesn't work after that, try downloading and burning the boot CD again. Burn at the slowest speed supported by burner and media. That's probably a waste of time but it's the only other thing I can think of. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243655-p6t-mobo-with-ide-hdd/#findComment-1625815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikimimi Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 The guide says that the CD only works with P6T V1 and V2, check that you don't have a V3 or whatever. Make sure you have the BIOS settings down, there's a bunch of photos of BIOS screens in the guide. If you're absolutely sure that it should work, then try a CMOS reset. This is motherboard C.P.R. CLEAR!! Unplug the PSU from the mains, remove the motherboard battery and close the CLRRTC jumper for five minutes. Remember you'll have to set all the BIOS settings again before booting. If it still doesn't work after that, try downloading and burning the boot CD again. Burn at the slowest speed supported by burner and media. That's probably a waste of time but it's the only other thing I can think of. Thanks a lot, but using CPU-Z I found out that my motherboard is not a deluxe, it is just a normal P6T, it kinda got my hopes up for making a bootcd from this website: http://www.fleebailey33.org/2010/04/how-to...ard-on-p6t.html However, this CD did not work either... It is supposed to be compatible with P6T boards, but the only thing that I can think of that may get in the way of a proper installation is the nvidia GTX280 card I have. I guess I might have to make my own bootdisc from a macbook one of my buddies have... Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243655-p6t-mobo-with-ide-hdd/#findComment-1626611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Download the boot CD from that link and modify it to suit your board. Go to ASUS' website and use their compare function to compare the P6T with the P6T Deluxe to find out what you need to add or remove. Read this guide about how to make a boot CD, this will teach you how to take one apart: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/...31.html#msg2131 Good luck. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/243655-p6t-mobo-with-ide-hdd/#findComment-1626712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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