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As the title says I'm trying to install Snow Leopard on an HP Compaq dc7600 Convertible Minitower PC.
I don't know much about the hardware in there except it's a Pentium 4 processor, 1 GB of memory and everything else in the system is on the motherboard.

There are no 3rd party cards in the system.

I went thru the iBoot + MultiBeast: Install Mac OS X on any Intel-based PC and everything went fine until I did the OS update and installed MultiBeast.

After doing that, removing the iBoot CD and rebooting it just got in a reboot loop where it would get to the iBoot screen, then kind of count down or a reverse loading bar and then it would restart and do the same thing over and over.

SL+Boot.jpg

I can't even get into the OS from the iBoot Cd anymore. When I try that it just sits there at a grey screen.

What can I do to fix this?

Thanks in advanced.

Steve
 
When you get to that screen hit the down arrow key a couple of times - first time stops the countdown timer and gives you a dropdown menu. continue hitting down arrow until Verbose boot is hi-lited, then hit enter. Post pic of where the boot process stops.

You might need to replace the P4 with a core2 Duo or Quad as the Pentium 4 line is not supported in OS X
 
Sorry, image quality is too poor to be able to read the screen. Try taking pics and blowing them up to 4x and see if they are readable before posting them.
 
I took the image I uploaded and blew it up a bit, but the more I blow it up the worse it gets.

Boot Error.jpg

Boot Error 2.png
 
I took the image I uploaded and blew it up a bit, but the more I blow it up the worse it gets.

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I don't know why you are using the boot-args listed. For older hardware like yours try with -v only first to see if it hangs, If it does, try with -v -x. If it hangs at PCIRootUID - try with -v -x PCIRootUID=0 and with -v -x PCIRootUID=1

Do you have any idea what the GPU is? Is a discrete card or is it onboard the mainboard? Go to HP and find the exact specs from their support site and post them. You can find your serial number and search for it on HP support site.
 
So your saying at boot up, hit the space bar to stop it on the Chameleon screen and type in -v -x and then -v -x PCIRootUID=0 and with -v -x PCIRootUID=1

I think I may have tried just -v (safemode)

That is actually how I had to do the install with -v.

I don't know what type of Graphics card it is, but it is on board. everything is on board.

I did go to HP's website and put my serial # in and it gave me the basic specs for the model, but it didn't seem to show m the exact specs of this system.

I'll try again.

Thanks.
 
When I tried any of the options it would boot farther than just with -v.

All of the other options would display 15 yo20 pages of text before it rebooted.

I reinstalled windows on the system and the devices are...

Graphics = Intel 82945G Express Chipset
Network card = Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Processor = Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.20Ghz
AUdio = Realtek High Definition Audio Drivers (I Think)
USB Hub = Intel 82801G
 
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