grizaptimus Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 In the past I have had several sucsessful installs of OSX86 on my hackintosh (JaS 10.4.7/10.4.8). I wanted to do a clean install so I downloaded the "Uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3" torrent off the demon. the burn and install went perfectly,but when I rebooted after the install It would not progress after the POST screen. After some troubleshooting I have figured out that the computer will not getpast the POST screen if the HD I installed OSX86 on is connected to the computer. I get the POST beep but cannot get into the BIOS menu. Also forsome reson it seems to have reset my CMOS. My Hackintosh has the following components: Mobo: Foxxconn 945P7AA-8EKRS2 Proc: Pentium D 950 RAM: 2GB Corsair PC2-800 (2x - 1GB) Vid Card: HIS Radeon X1800 GTO HD: 74GB Western Digital Raptor If anyone can help I would be most thankful!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 First, try changing your CMOS battery. Also, is Mac OS the only operating system on your computer? If not, you may want to try a bootloader, and see if that changes anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizaptimus Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 OSX is the only OS on the system,and when I disconnect the HD i can get back into BIOS menu and change settings agian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Make sure that, in Disk Utility, you erased the drive with an MBR boot record, and not a GUID scheme, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizaptimus Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 What I did when I instelled OSX was I went into Disk Utility and went to the Erase Tab. I did not see any options for MBR or GUID onlyfor security options. I cannot go back in to reformat it because the system no hangs before any boot loader would even start to load. If SATA is hot swapable I could try to hook it up after I get it to boot off DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 I think it has to do with the whole drive, look around the multiple settings in Disk Utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizaptimus Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 well thanks for your help... I was able to get it working and get OSX reinsalled... but then a most improbable accident happened , now at the very least the Mobo and Powersupply is fried. sigh wish the wife would look where she is gowing when she is mad... thanks agian for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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