NateS Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Well my systems specs Gigabyte P35-DS3 mobo 2gb DDR2 1x 320gb IDE dive 2x 250 sata2 drives e6550 @ 3.5gghz 7900GTX flashed Heres the story, i had osx running natively on the 320gb drive, everything worked, it was perfect, i then got the the 2 sata drives, plan was 1 for osx one for xp.. so i installed them in, installed xp on one, went to install osx on the other, it was reconised as a 128gb , i tried installing it anyway, it didnt work, id already formatted the 320gb because it was from my external, so i put it back in, and installed osx again, now it just wont boot form the drive, i unplugged the sata's and it still wont boot from it, i used fdisk, made it active and it still wont boot, it just sits at the POST screen not doing anything, i cant work out why, i cleared the CMOS incase there was some error, reinstalled osx, and it still wont boot, im really annoyed now! im using the 10.4.8 jas sse3 intel disc what the hell is going on! if anyone has any advice id appreciate it, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Is the drive correctly connected to the cable and set as MASTER? Did you enter the BIOS to see if it was recognized correctly? If the SATA were ports disabled before, you could try disabling them again. hecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateS Posted September 23, 2007 Author Share Posted September 23, 2007 yep its connected, i can see the drive and access it in windows via macdrive, this is just bizarre, but im sure its somthing, it cant be nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateS Posted September 24, 2007 Author Share Posted September 24, 2007 still nothing, this is just {censored} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Did you remember to click the MBR option the second time you partitioned/formatted the IDE drive? If not, you can try recreating it by booting off the install DVD and entering the command: fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0 in the terminal. hecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netfox Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Enable AHCI mode & NATIVE MODE in BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuppMan Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 A long shot but have you configured the correct boot order of your drives in bios? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateS Posted September 25, 2007 Author Share Posted September 25, 2007 okay, its up and running, and i have no idea how/why, i just turned the computer on, and it booted into 10.4.10 koolkal, so strange, i wont complain tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miro30 Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Hey Guys, I have a Gigabyte p35 DS3r and can't get the audio to work (ALC889A). Any suugestions? Many thanks, Miro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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