chawknz Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 (edited) Hey everyone, He's a really strange issue. I was able to install OS X on my home built computer. Everything worked great until I had to reboot to load into the new installation. When I rebooted and my BIOS did its scan of the IDE/SATA drives, my system locked up before it even continued the BIOS diagnostics or reached the point where it would even try to load from the hard drive. I wasn't even able to hit DELETE to enter the setup BIOS screen. I removed the hard drive that I had just installed OS X onto (an SATA drive) and put a different hard drive in the same SATA channel. System worked fine. I then tried to install OS X onto an IDE drive. So, I hooked it up, everything was fine (it went past the point where the other drive froze the system), installed OS X, rebooted and my system locked up at the same point as the previous drive. Again I removed it and everything is fine. The system appears to be freezing up right after the BIOS does its scan of the hard drives but before it tries to boot from them. Any ideas what may be happening here? BIOSTAR 945P-A7A w/ Core2Duo E6600 PNY Optima 1GB (2x512)DDR 667 eVGAGeForce 7800GT Maxtor SATA 80G HD (SATA) and IBM DeskStar 110G (ATA133) OS X 10.4.8 JaS Edited February 21, 2007 by chawknz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chawknz Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 Any ideas? I won't bump this any more, but this is kind of bothersome. The hard drives are pretty much useless now since I can't even use them as a "slave" to format them from Windows booted off of my primary hard drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-308487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Your harddrive is partitioned with the GPT scheme. Reinstall and when you go to format your drive, select PC scheme. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-308489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chawknz Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 (edited) I am not even sure I can format the drive because if I try to turn my computer on with the hard drive I installed OS X onto, the computer freezes at the point where the BIOS scans my IDE/SATA channels. The hard drive worked fine before I installed OS X onto it. They did not cause the system to hang at all. Once I installed OS X, the drives started the issue. This has happened with two hard drives now (and IDE one and an SATA drive), both cause the system to hang at the BIOS bootup process. Edited February 22, 2007 by chawknz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-308575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy429 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Yeah I've got the same problem, I think it was cause by not partitioning the hard drive right during installation, but regardless. I now have two IDE 80 Western Digital Hard drives that cause the system to hang prior to loading the bios (so I cant format them) Setting them up as a slave doesn't seem to work either . Anything that could help would be nice Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-308631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chawknz Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 Comforting to know there's others out there with the same problem. I feel less crazy. I am not sure what else I could have done differently during the install. Formatting the hard drive as HFS+ seemed to be the right way to go..I think. I've never seen an install of anything cause the system to freeze at the BIOS check. During boot time, sure, but not in BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-308763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy429 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 It is a crazy problem Hopefully someone can help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-308901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy429 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 hello Again I'm going to try to use an external hard drive enclosure to format the "broken" drives I'll let you know how it goes later tonight bye for now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-309114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chawknz Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 I was considering doing the same thing. Let me know how it goes and I'll buy a cheap one off of Newegg. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-309179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy429 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Ok I have a solution All you need to do is enter your bios (just dont plug in your harddrive) Go in the CMOS setting and set the IDE auto detect to not detect (or none) Then save and exit Replug in your hard drive Now you should be able to boot anyway Hope that helps Good Luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-309947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The. Mad. Doc. Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 (edited) Here's another solution, just leave the hard drive unplugged until the computer boots the install mac os x screen/welcome to darwin from the dvd. Press F8 to make the countdown stop, plug it in use which startup option you want, and the installer will detect it and you will be able to format it using disk utility. Edited February 24, 2007 by DiL Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43075-hard-drive-issue-freezing-bios/#findComment-309970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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