woodensunset Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Hi Everyone, I'm looking for some help with an error that I just can't seem to find a solution to on, well, just about any forum. My system: Asus A8S-X motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Venice) 768MB RAM My problem: I boot my computer up with an OSx86 10.4.7 DVD, and Darwin begins to launch. After a moment, before any installation process begins, it crashes out, telling me I must reboot my machine, with an error of: "unable to find drivers for this platform: ACPI" Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? I've attempted to turn off anything related to ACPI in my BIOS, but still no luck. Any similar stories out there? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25848-acpi-error-on-boot-from-installation-cd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirtualGuitarist Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 I don't know what is your chipset but i think it's a chipset incompatibility. You should try that : when the darwin boot appear, without waiting try to hit the "F8" key, then on the Darwin prompt type : -x , and the enter key. Eventually try : -s or both (-x -s). If it's a graphic card problem, try (after have quickly hit the "F8" key as above) this : -f "Graphics Mode"="1024x768x32" If you have success in booting, don't forget to choose "Custom" installation, NOT "automatic" or "Default" install, and choose the patches that correspond to your processor / chipset (in your case i think it will be "AMD Decrypted", "VIA/nforce patch" and "SSE3..." DON'T choose Intel of course ! and if you choose "SSE3..." DON'T choose "SSE3 to SSE2 converter" or something like this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25848-acpi-error-on-boot-from-installation-cd/#findComment-175049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodensunset Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 Thanks for the help, VirtualGuitarist, but no luck! I thought I might transcribe all the random stuff it shows me, in case any of it is helpful. This is what came up when I tried to boot into the installation with -x -s: hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000 PAE enabled standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us vm_page_bootstrap: 189152 free pages mig_table_max_displ = 71 CPU identification: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ CPU features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 EST CPU extended features: SYSCALL XD EM64T Local APIC version not 0x14 as expected Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes [RTCLOCK] frequency 2000000000 (2000169540) ACP CA 20051117 [debug level=0 layer=0] panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00399CA3): Unable to find driver for this platform: "ACPI". Debugger called: <panic> Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 0xfab3e04 : 0x128aea (0x3b9dcc 0xfab3e28 0x130c94 0x0) 0xfab3e44 : 0x399ca3 (ox3dcfa8 0x22567a0 0x230da04 0x235f1c0) 0xfab3e64 : 0x37daca (0x2355580 0x2240c80 0x1 0x235f1c0) 0xfab3ec4 : 0x37f34f (0x2240c80 0x2355580 0x235b1a0 0x2259540) 0xfab3f44 : 0x37ebb9 (0x2240c80 0x2237040 0x8 0xffffffff) 0xfab3f94 : 0x380302 (0x2240c80 0x0 0x22566a0 0x0) 0xfab3fd4 : 0x196b69 (0x22566a0 0x0 0x224e458 0x133ba0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.4.1: Tue Jan 3 18:23:53 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.790.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 ** Soooo...ha, does anyone have any idea if there's a glaring problem in that jargon there? Oh, and CPU-Z says my chipset is SiS 756 Rev. 02, if that's of any help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25848-acpi-error-on-boot-from-installation-cd/#findComment-175217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodensunset Posted August 27, 2006 Author Share Posted August 27, 2006 Bueller? Anybody? Anybody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25848-acpi-error-on-boot-from-installation-cd/#findComment-175484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodensunset Posted August 28, 2006 Author Share Posted August 28, 2006 Bah, looks like it's just not gonna happen for me. I even installed OSx86 onto my hard drive in a friend's computer (successful install) and then put it back into my box, but still...same error. Sad face! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25848-acpi-error-on-boot-from-installation-cd/#findComment-176211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnassen Posted August 28, 2006 Share Posted August 28, 2006 Can you disable ACPI or any dual processor (HT/ dual core) functonality in bios? I know Intel´s HT technology has to be disabled to run OSX86 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25848-acpi-error-on-boot-from-installation-cd/#findComment-176428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Brain Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Hi Everyone, I'm looking for some help with an error that I just can't seem to find a solution to on, well, just about any forum. My system: Asus A8S-X motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Venice) 768MB RAM My problem: I boot my computer up with an OSx86 10.4.7 DVD, and Darwin begins to launch. After a moment, before any installation process begins, it crashes out, telling me I must reboot my machine, with an error of: "unable to find drivers for this platform: ACPI" Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this? I've attempted to turn off anything related to ACPI in my BIOS, but still no luck. Any similar stories out there? Thanks! i had the same motherboad and i also got the same error b4.. i updated the bios with the latest version and the error is gone.. u try the same.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25848-acpi-error-on-boot-from-installation-cd/#findComment-1080872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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