famousginni Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Ok, after a long time I've returned to my desktop. After successfully installing Snow Leopard many times on my Dell 6400 laptop, I felt that I needed to give my desktop a new life. Even though I had 10.5.2 Kalyway running very nicely on my desktop... 10.5.2 is getting old, and I would like to update it to the latest 10.6.6. So I went out and bought a brand new hard drive for this install. Now after following the nVidia guide for Snow Leopard... I was utterly confused, and I haven't gotten to the part where I can boot the installation media. So I'm asking for help. Weird thing is that although my hard drives work perfectly fine, I don't have a SATA DVD Drive, but only a PATA drive.. This has been causing problems since I think my drive doesn't like OSX, as it get extremely slow at booting Mac stuff.. so I'd thought I try another drive... same thing on this drive. I've tried different installation medias but none of them work.. so I'm forced to use USB's. Anyways, the specs are below... and I'm starting my journey.... anyone want to help me? I'm also thinking about getting a GFX card and I have the following options: (XFX, ASUS, Gigabyte) Geforce 8400GS (ASUS, Gigabyte) GeForce 210 (XFX, Powercolor) Radeon 4350 (XFX) Radeon HD 4550 (Powercolor) Radeon 3450 (Gigabyte, MSI, eVGA) Geforce GT 210 (ASUS, Gigabyte, Sapphire) Radeon 5450 Motherboard: ASUS P5N73-AM (NVIDIA GeForce 7050/nForce 610i) Hard Drive 1: 500GB Hitachi SATA Drive with 3 Partitions (Windows 7, Backup, Storage) Hard Drive 2: 120GB Samsung SATA Drive with 2 Partitions (OSX 10.5.2, Empty Space for 10.6) CD/DVD ROM: LG DVD-ROM DRD-8160B Sound: VIA VT1708B 8 -Channel High-Definition Audio Video: Motherboard InBuilt (Planning to buy new) Ethernet: Realtek RTL8201CP, 100/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Krishna21 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Hi, this is just for you to acknowledge--I'm going to school right now, I'll be back around 3/4PM and I'll assist you. Just said that so yo don't leave around 2 or whatever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krishna21 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Hello I'm Krishna21 for starters, anyway, I have furnished a guide that installs Snow Leopard 10.6.5 (I have a method for 10.6.6 but I'm going to test and see how it goes, once I know it's working fine I will post, but for now 10.6.5, sorry!) on the nForce 630i Chipset, to my knowledege 630a and 630i both are AHCI Compliant so it should work. Take a look, http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=219837 (Oh yeah--if you ever feel that your getting no assistance at all--don't leave! Most new members feel it, because our current experts are busy cracking down on OS X for the new generation Intel processors or other stuff, just have patience.) (Next to that, if my guide doesn't work/not helpful, contact verdant on InsanelyMac and say you have 630a and checked my guide, and it didn't work.) Hope I helped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abhishek Jain Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Hi there, I have Asus P5N73-AM mobo with ATI 5670 card...but when going to install snow leopard getting "still waiting for root dervices" error msg...I have SATA HDD and a PATA DVD drive and not able to install snow leopad. HELP ME!!! Please be advice. Thanks in advance Abhishek Jain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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