Darth_Reven Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Hello all hackintoshers! I wouldn't consider myself a complete noob, but I have been having a bit of trouble hackintoshing my Desktop computer. my little HP mini 210 was cake, except for QE.. but that is a matter for later =D I have a 3-4 year old Alienware. it is an Aurora 7500 R4.. I think.. I have tried many different distro's and some will boot, some will crash right on boot. I am hoping I could get pointed in the correct direction, I will try to give as much detail as possible, if I missed anything please let me know =X I guess I should caveat that I have some experience with OS X on Apple hardware mostly PPC most of my experience is with Linux the hardware: Nforce 590 SLI AMD AMD athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHZ 5 GB ram Nvidia 8800 GT Basic USB keyboard mouse Sound Blaster Audigy I think an OB realtek HD audo SATA DL-DVD Drive as stated I have tried quite a few distros to name a few and there quirks Hazard 10.6.1-10.6.2 Problem: USB not working, wont boot "waiting for root device" on the SATA DVD drive Tried: Using IDE DVD drive, PS/2 keyboard mouse Result it would boot to the installer but no hard disks show up in disk utility. that lead me to believe there was a lack of a SATA driver available for that Mobo. so I tried using an Old 20GB IDE hard disk ( I have many "atticware" computers lying around =P) Result after using the IDE dvd drive and IDE hard disk I was able to install the distro. however it would hang on perpetual boot. getting to the boot loader and reseting. not only that. it would Zap my BIOS settings. I don't know if that is a system of a larger problem or ?? After getting my BIOS zaped several times I hung it up for a time. now after getting my Mini up and running I want to return to my Desktop. perhaps the Guru's might have some insight onto what I am doing wrong. or maybe it wont work at all. although I hope that in not the case. P.S merry Christmas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Use the search to find Verdant's nforce install guides. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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