Dare Devil Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Hi, I am not able to install MAC on my AMD 64 3000+ computer as i am not able to choose any harddrive in order to install the OS after booting in to DVD and when tried to open Disk Utility there are not drives or paritions visible which can be formatted. I have tried using different Hard Drives. Below are the Hard Drive Specs. I have used: 1. 80 GB Seagate SATA. 2. 160 GB IDE 3. 40 GB IDE I have tried all the possible things to resolve this issue but I end up with only failue.... Can some one please help me with this issue. Thanks Dare Devil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Well, first off, can you tell us what motherboard you have (or even better, the chipset)? That would help a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dare Devil Posted September 2, 2006 Author Share Posted September 2, 2006 Hey thanks a log for the quick response...... I am using MSI Mother Board. Below are my MB specs: • 9.60 in.(L) x 9.60 in.(W); Micro- ATX • 2 DIMMs w/ DDR 400 upto 2 GB • 1 PCI-E 16X; 3 PCI; 8 USB • 6 Ch. Audio; 10/100 LAN; IEEE 1394; RAID; SATA; ATA133 • ATI Radeon Integrated Graphics, 1 x S-Video port, 1 x Composite TV-Out Chipset • ATI Radeon® XPRESS 200 Chipset - HyperTransport connection to AMD K8 Athlon 64 processor - 8 or 16 bit control/address. data transfer both directions - 800/400/200MHz "Double Data Rate" operation both direction - PCI Express x16 Graphic Interface - On-board Graphic shared up to 128MB - Graphic Integrated • ATI ® SB400 Chipset - Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller - Supports dual channel native Serial ATA/RAID controller that will supply 150MB/s and support RAID 0 or RAID 1 - Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster / Direct Sound AC97 audio - ACPI & PC2001 compliant enhanced power management - Supports 8 USB2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4) Thanks for all your help in advance. Thanks Dare Devil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Did we miss something? What is the mobo model number? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dare Devil Posted September 3, 2006 Author Share Posted September 3, 2006 Hey ZedZed, My Mobo Model number is MSI - RS480M(601-7145-030) Thanks Dare Devila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedzed Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Sorry - I don't know. I m having weird HD related problems on my Intel D915PBL mobo For your MSI mobo - talk to Karthik Ramgopal http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=10241 Post #5 He got his working Also see - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=15226 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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