Akutsito Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 (edited) Well, i've read around about the hardware accepted by OSX as of the momment, the current hacks and etc... as far as i've read, my hardware should be compatible with OSX, thats why i started to download a few Isos to try it... first of them... JaS 10.4.7, starts with the Apple Logo with the Loader Spinning, everything well, disk utilitie gets my HD, i format the partition i want, everything goes smooth, until i forget to customize packs so it freezes up installing iTunes... Keyboard wasnt working at the installation The next go just freezed up when erasing the disc partition in Journaled OSX and in every other one too..., altought, if i reseted and began the installation again, it showed up like it was formatted... Next one... JaS 10.4.8 This time (and since the second-third-fourth try on 10.4.7) i wasnt getting the Apple Logo with the Loader Spinning, but instead i just got the lines of code loading... Same luck as above, except i couldnt format the disk again, same happened when reseted... Keyboard wasnt working at the installation Tubgirls 10.4.8 Same as JaS's..., but this time i couldnt get it to detect my partitions, where JaS did... Keyboard wasnt tested... On the 3 versions of OSX, it freezes up installing, it copies everything to the disk, and starts installing, installs a few things and freezes up at the first pack... My hardware its: Sempron 2800+ Venice Core (SSE, SSE2, SSE3) Epox 8NPA7i (nForce 4x (same as nForce4 variants, just with a few cuts, Sata 2 and SLi are disabled on this chip) 1024mb Corsair DDR400 Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse... Did i really miss something while searching? Any help its greatly appreciated... EDIT: Forgot to add, 10.4.7 installs flawlessly trough VMWare... Edited January 9, 2007 by Akutsito Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38100-freezing-install/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akutsito Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Bump? =\ I've read theres problems with chipset NF4 and Sata drives..., but i dunno why JaS recognized it and formatted well the first few times.. =\ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38100-freezing-install/#findComment-272439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 There is no nForce4 SATA, you may have been able to install with other builds but when you reboot, it will be gone Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38100-freezing-install/#findComment-272447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacy Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I'm having the same problems as us and after a few days spent on reading the forums i finally think i know why this is happening. nForce4 with a SATA drive *isn't* compatible with OSX. They do run with the drivers that come with all 3 images you downloaded, but at some point the whole system will freeze and the only thing left working will be the keyboard and mouse interrupts, which of course won't do a thing. This happens not only when installing OSX, but even after you did that if you are working with a SATA drive. There are ppl that installed OSX on nForce4 motherboards with SATA which after trying to mount and repartition a SATA drive get a system freeze. For now the only thing you can do is try to disable the SATA from BIOS and install OSX on a PATA drive. That should probably work. I don't have a PATA drive myself at this time, so i haven't tested that. You can also try to remove or disable the SATA drivers after installing OSX, so you don't have to disable it trough BIOS and your regular Windows will still be there if you want to boot in it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38100-freezing-install/#findComment-272450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacy Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 You can also watch theese 2 threads for updates on the nForce4 SATA kexts: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35985 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=31091 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38100-freezing-install/#findComment-272461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akutsito Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 No pata drive atm Damn1! Thanks for the ansewers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38100-freezing-install/#findComment-272522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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