munst0r Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Hi. I'm trying to install Snow Leopard on my AMD PC with following specs: CPU: Phenom X2 550 MBO: Asrock A780GXH/128M RAM: 4GB DDR2 GPU: ATI HD5850 Soundcard: Audigy 2 Other: PS2 keyboard, USB mouse, IDE DVD drive I was following the Mohamed's AMD and Retail Snow Leopard 10.6.5 guide. As I heard, there could be some problems when installing OSX from IDE drive, so I decided to use my USB HDD to restore OSX DVD to it, and tried to get the setup running from it. When I use Mohamed's Boot CD 1.6 to run the setup, it hangs at this screen: With Mohamed's AtiNforce boot CD, it hangs at this screen: I managed to enter the setup with Nawcom boot CD 0.3, but it fails almost immediately: This is the first time I'm trying to install OSX on my PC, so I'm kinda lost and don't know what to try next... Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/247238-installing-osx-on-amd-pc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 try the myhack USB install version. The drive has something to do with it being IDE, you can install Leopard no problem, but Snow Leopard will have problems with IDE. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/247238-installing-osx-on-amd-pc/#findComment-1637368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 wait, i look at the question wrong, you mean you're using IDE DVD drive and SATA HDD, correct? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/247238-installing-osx-on-amd-pc/#findComment-1637369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munst0r Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 Yes, DVD drive is IDE. But I'm using it only to boot from Boot CD. OSX 10.6.3 setup is on a USB HDD. I have 5 HDDs: 4 SATA and 1 IDE. The empty one (that is intended for OSX) is SATA, but I never got to the point of the setup where I would pick the HDD drive. Setup fails right after I choose the English language. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/247238-installing-osx-on-amd-pc/#findComment-1637401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 i think it's your board itself.... im' not sure though Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/247238-installing-osx-on-amd-pc/#findComment-1637502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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