hawkievalencia Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Recently my father and me have bought 2 laptops, EXACTLY THE SAME LAPTOPS!!! They are both asus a6jc, intel core 2duo 1.66ghz, wireless 3945,don't remember which lan card, 100gigas of hard disk... Well I installed mac osx 10.4.7 from Jas dvd on a external hd, with NO PROBLEMS, everything except wireless card works: alc880, lan card, nvidia geforce go 7300... BUT if i try to install it into my father laptop, that is EXACTLY THE SAME, it has problems during the boot of the dvd. It takes a lot of time to boot the dvd, and a little more than in my laptop to copy the mac os x to his external drive. The funny thing is that once i install mac and starts the first screen... apears a forbidden sign and everything slow down. Just when i move the mouse the circle in the screen moves, but it doesn't seem to be loading anything from HD. I have waited 45 minutes (oh, yeah, i've got a lot of patient...) But... NOTHING HAPPENS!!! I've tried booting with -v, and dissabled some kexts, for instance iopccardfamily, iousbmass... and it still remains the same. i've tried to use my external hd with his laptop, and the problems are the same is it a hardware problem¿? windows xp works perfect in both!!! How can it be? the have less than a week! are new!! identical!!! some help, please??? THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41614-freezes-during-boot-but/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestevo Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I think that the installer is not recognizing the ATA controller in your laptops. It works on the external drive because the installer recognizes the USB to ATA chip in the external drive. Best bet, if you want to put in the time, fix the installation on the external drive so that you can see the internal drive. Then copy the installation over. Stephen Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41614-freezes-during-boot-but/#findComment-298002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another User Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 To me it sounds as simple as optical issue. DVD-Rs/DVD+Rs has great incompatibilities even with the exact same optical drive. Try re-burning the disc. especially in slower writing speed and maybe with different brand for the media. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41614-freezes-during-boot-but/#findComment-298019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macoso Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hi Maybe the problem is on BIOS settings. Test if the configuration is the same on both laptops. If so, try disabling Legacy on USB param. Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41614-freezes-during-boot-but/#findComment-298028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkievalencia Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 guess you didn't understand... in my pc it works PERFECT!! and in my father laptops it gets installed!!! there is no problem with optical drives, since i can install mac os x from it... it must be some problem with the specific hardware of my father laptops... because i have the same one and it works!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41614-freezes-during-boot-but/#findComment-298182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestevo Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Sorry for that misunderstanding. My apologies. I don't know how close the purchases of the two laptops were, but my suspicion is that they were far enough apart for some hardware difference. My recommendation is such: 1. Check you BIOS settings, and also the BIOS version to make sure that one of you haven't updated past the other. I doubt you'll find anything here, but better check it first. 2. Scour the Hardware Manager in Windows XP on both machines to find a difference. I bet that though it may be the same model, the manufacturer may have switched some components during the run of that model. From what your saying it almost sounds like a different chipset to me, even though I haven't heard of a manufacturer switching mobos mid-model. The slower transfer and the waiting for root device problem sound like a different ATA controller to me. At least, that is all I know that would fit both symptoms. Stephen Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41614-freezes-during-boot-but/#findComment-298351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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