parkie Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 OK I downloaded the above version and it installed fine up until reboot. After it reboots my motherboard freezes at the post screen. This happened on three different Hard drives one of whioch I was about to send back to Hitachi. The only way my computer would not freeze at post was to take the drives out and put in a drive that had nothing to do with the Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1] installation. I'd like to point out that there is nothing wrong with my PC. I've juswt saved my drives by booting up with the Drive Fitness Test floppy and attaching the drives while the PC was on and then scanning the busses with DFT which then can test the drives (they all were fine) and erase them. The second drive instead of erasing it I just erased the MBR and hey presto my motherboard would get past the post screen and act normal again. So my question is: What is this installation writing to the Master Boot Record that is not allowing my PC to get past the post screen?. Is this a bad version to be using, is there a better one I should try? Hope you can help me out cheers parkie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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xen1 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I think i'm having this exact problem too. What motherboard are you on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdull Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Always try disabling all SATA first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 2 possible scenarios, your are formating/partitioning your drive with GUID or Apple Scheme, in Disk Utility there is an options button that let you choose MBR scheme for Partition. There are some 10.4.8 Installation DVDs that has a broke Disk Utility, you can use a 10.4.7 DVD to format/patition your disk and then install with 10.4.8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanS Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I have a 10.4.8 Installation DVD with a broken Disk Utility. I did what macgirl suggested and used the Disk Utility from my 10.4.7 install disk. The best thing to do, if you can, is delete all of the partitions and repartition the drive. I have had difficulty working with a drive that has a failed install without removing everything and starting over. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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