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SL 10.6.3 Installation probably complete, but won't boot

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Specs:

Asus ROG Rampage IV Extreme
Intel Core i7 3930K
64GB Corsair 1866mhz Vengeance (8x8GB)
OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-240G Agility 3 240GB SATAIII 2.5 inch SSD
Pioneer BDR-207D Blu-Ray SATA
NVIDIA GeForce Quadro 4000 1GB
Onboard 7.1 Audio
802.11N 150Mbps MIMO PCI-E card
Corsair Vengeance C70 Gunmetal Black case
Corsair H100 Water Cooler
700W Xigmatek Modular PSU

First off I removed all but one of the RAM chips. I know ideally I should fire it up with no more than 4GB of RAM but as I only have 8GB modules I left 8 in. If this is likely to be the cause of my problems do let me know.

I also removed the PCI-E Wi-Fi card.

I run the 3010 BIOS which may not have a DSDT page file yet, but from what I can gather that shouldn't stop me from starting up the OS in the first place?

I set the SATA mode in the BIOS to AHCI (in fact it was already set to this when I bought the PC) and the priority boot to the optical drive.

I bought a retail Snow Leopard 10.6.3 installation disc and booted it with iBoot. After a number of tries and different boot commands (cannot remember off the top of my head which I ended up using) I got into the Snow Leopard installation. HOWEVER, my mouse was hanging something awful and it was practically impossible to use it during the installation. I used the keyboard only, which also lagged.

On the first installation it failed halfway, but the second time it got to the end. However, when I now try to run the installation (via iBoot) I only get to the Apple loading screen and the spinning circle loading icon progresses one notch about every five seconds. I only realised today I'd been using my SSD with a 6Gig SATA port on my motherboard so I changed it to a 3Gig. This doesn't seem to hve made much of a difference though.

Whn booting with "-v" I get this:

20121107_142039_HDR.jpg

Anyone got any ideas what I might have done wrong or what steps might be taken to fix it?
 
before 10.6.8 i am not sure if i-Cpus are recognized
10.6.3 is too old for your specs
 
Aw, crap. So I guess that was those £50-something out the windows then? Balls.

I don't suppose there's any way to get around it that you knwo of other that getting a new installation disc?

Or is there anything else at all you can think of that might be the problem (or a problem)?
 
erlendsp said:
Specs:

Asus ROG Rampage IV Extreme
Intel Core i7 3930K
64GB Corsair 1866mhz Vengeance (8x8GB)
OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-240G Agility 3 240GB SATAIII 2.5 inch SSD
Pioneer BDR-207D Blu-Ray SATA
NVIDIA GeForce Quadro 4000 1GB
Onboard 7.1 Audio
802.11N 150Mbps MIMO PCI-E card
Corsair Vengeance C70 Gunmetal Black case
Corsair H100 Water Cooler
700W Xigmatek Modular PSU

First off I removed all but one of the RAM chips. I know ideally I should fire it up with no more than 4GB of RAM but as I only have 8GB modules I left 8 in. If this is likely to be the cause of my problems do let me know.

I also removed the PCI-E Wi-Fi card.

I run the 3010 BIOS which may not have a DSDT page file yet, but from what I can gather that shouldn't stop me from starting up the OS in the first place?

I set the SATA mode in the BIOS to AHCI (in fact it was already set to this when I bought the PC) and the priority boot to the optical drive.

I bought a retail Snow Leopard 10.6.3 installation disc and booted it with iBoot. After a number of tries and different boot commands (cannot remember off the top of my head which I ended up using) I got into the Snow Leopard installation. HOWEVER, my mouse was hanging something awful and it was practically impossible to use it during the installation. I used the keyboard only, which also lagged.

On the first installation it failed halfway, but the second time it got to the end. However, when I now try to run the installation (via iBoot) I only get to the Apple loading screen and the spinning circle loading icon progresses one notch about every five seconds. I only realised today I'd been using my SSD with a 6Gig SATA port on my motherboard so I changed it to a 3Gig. This doesn't seem to hve made much of a difference though.

Whn booting with "-v" I get this:

View attachment 37379

Anyone got any ideas what I might have done wrong or what steps might be taken to fix it?
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See this link
http://www.tonymacx86.com/snow-leop...x-10-6-snow-leopard-ivy-bridge-based-pcs.html

We have a new CD for IvyBridge CPUs - available in downloads.
As to the amount of ram - the concessions is that iBoot has a limit of 4k already so you dont have to worry//


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Right, I think I'm pretty much where I was before. It did get into the installation bit a lot easier this time, though. However when I started again and tried to boot the OS the icon slowly spun for a while before going back to iBoot Ivy Bridge. On trying to start the OS again it froze on the Apple icon.

Any ideas?

Edit: On second attempt the icon spun a bit faster, but then slowed down, and half an hour later nothing has happened.

Hmpf.
 
PCIRootUID=0 -v

Am I right in thinking there is something not right with my drive or installation?

20121108_233511_HDR.jpg

PCIRootUID=0 -v -f

20121108_234528_HDR.jpg
 
erlendsp said:
PCIRootUID=0 -v

Am I right in thinking there is something not right with my drive or installation?
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What is looks to me like is that it doesn't like your gfx card. Do you have an old 8800gs or 9500/9800 GT you could install with then swap back after you install the latest nVidia drivers?
 
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