greg99799 Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Hi All, I'm going to give it the old college try here soon, and I was hoping to get some advice, preemptively, as to whether or not it's possible with my system. Here are the specs as I know to give them: -HP Pavillion a6300f desktop -System Type: X86-based PC -Processor: Intel ® Pentium® Dual CPU E2180 -BIOS Version: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 5.20, 10/24/2008 -SMBIOS Version: 2.5 -Motherboard: Foxconn with the NVIDIA nForce MCP73-6A61NFK1C-00 -Video Card: GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB Also, I have an Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240S ATA drive. I know a SATA drive would be ideal, but is this a deal breaker for me? Sorry for any superfluous information, and THANKS for any help in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Hi All, I'm going to give it the old college try here soon, and I was hoping to get some advice, preemptively, as to whether or not it's possible with my system. Here are the specs as I know to give them: -HP Pavillion a6300f desktop -System Type: X86-based PC -Processor: Intel ® Pentium® Dual CPU E2180 -BIOS Version: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 5.20, 10/24/2008 -SMBIOS Version: 2.5 -Motherboard: Foxconn with the NVIDIA nForce MCP73-6A61NFK1C-00 -Video Card: GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB Also, I have an Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240S ATA drive. I know a SATA drive would be ideal, but is this a deal breaker for me? Sorry for any superfluous information, and THANKS for any help in advance With an nForce chipset MOBO a PATA (IDE) DVDRW set as Master is normally required......and your GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB graphics card should be fine..... Your GeForce 7100/nForce 630i chipset MOBO should probably be fully AHCI compliant, meaning that you cannot use an AppleNForceATA.kext...........see these two topics: Krishna21 http://www.insanelym...pic=219837&st=0 iBifteki http://www.insanelym...howtopic=257546 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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