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apple logo and spinning wheel continues indefinately or I get the "You need to shut down and restart your computer...etc" message in the gray box with apple logo
(UPDATE 11/29/10: This problem was apparently due to the Radeon 4870 card I was trying to use.. If trying to use a card in that series expect to have similar issues I resolved my problem by replacing the card with a 5770 if it's within your means stop wasting time with the 4xxx and exchange it. I bought this http://www.microcenter.com/single_produ ... id=0328873 )
Hello Everyone,
Firstly I'd like to thank Tonymac, and all of the members contributing to this project, and secondly I'd like to appologise for creating a new topic since there are already so many threads here that it is difficult to find the information that one needs. That said I am at my whits end trying to get past what seems to be a very early step in the process of getting my machine running and after reading through probably 100 threads I feel like I am falling deeper into the rabbit hole.
Here is what I have done:
I first attempted to install using Kakewalklegacy.iso per the instructions given at this site ->(except that I had to use imgburn on my other windows machine) http://nofilmschool.com/build-a-hackint ... -x-part-1/
I then decided to try iboot here ->
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/ ... -x-on.html
for some reason that i don't recall the first version I burned to disc was the legacy I have since used the main version and the iboot-ge versions with the same result.
Here is whats happening:
I get to the iboot screen, eject iboot disc put in the OSX 10.6.3 retail disc wait for a sec press f5 then wait for the name of the disc icon to pop up then I either press enter or type -x then press enter.(As a side note there is also a windows icon that pops up next to the iboot/mac disc icons, no idea why, the hard disks are brand new??)
After I press enter I see one of two things either a gray screen or it skips the gray screen and goes straight to the white screen with apple logo and spinning wheel after a while of this the monitor will turn off and wont come back on,
or I get the "You need to shut down and restart your computer...etc" message in the gray box with apple logo(this is a kernal panic?),
or the white screen with apple logo and spinning wheel continues indefinately(I have waited for upto an hour with no change)
Over the last four days since I got my machine assembled I have tried numerous slight variations in the bios but have most strictly adhered to the bios pictures on tonymacs iboot+multibeast page, I have also disconnected everything except the main SSD, the Disc drive, the video card, 4gigs of ram, the fans/cooling pump, & the front panel led/reset & pwr switches. I even replaced the LG super multi drive with a Gear Head Triple formet drive http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/6 ... VD-Triple/ since the lg was very noisey and I wondered if it might have not been reading th mac disc but the gear head drive though not as noisey behaves in much the same way. I hope this information is useful in helping me solve my problems and doesn't become yet another long post that someone with a different problem is stuck reading. I have attached a couple pics and will post more below.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
(UPDATE 11/29/10: This problem was apparently due to the Radeon 4870 card I was trying to use.. If trying to use a card in that series expect to have similar issues I resolved my problem by replacing the card with a 5770 if it's within your means stop wasting time with the 4xxx and exchange it. I bought this http://www.microcenter.com/single_produ ... id=0328873 )
Hello Everyone,
Firstly I'd like to thank Tonymac, and all of the members contributing to this project, and secondly I'd like to appologise for creating a new topic since there are already so many threads here that it is difficult to find the information that one needs. That said I am at my whits end trying to get past what seems to be a very early step in the process of getting my machine running and after reading through probably 100 threads I feel like I am falling deeper into the rabbit hole.
Here is what I have done:
I first attempted to install using Kakewalklegacy.iso per the instructions given at this site ->(except that I had to use imgburn on my other windows machine) http://nofilmschool.com/build-a-hackint ... -x-part-1/
I then decided to try iboot here ->
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/04/ ... -x-on.html
for some reason that i don't recall the first version I burned to disc was the legacy I have since used the main version and the iboot-ge versions with the same result.
Here is whats happening:
I get to the iboot screen, eject iboot disc put in the OSX 10.6.3 retail disc wait for a sec press f5 then wait for the name of the disc icon to pop up then I either press enter or type -x then press enter.(As a side note there is also a windows icon that pops up next to the iboot/mac disc icons, no idea why, the hard disks are brand new??)
After I press enter I see one of two things either a gray screen or it skips the gray screen and goes straight to the white screen with apple logo and spinning wheel after a while of this the monitor will turn off and wont come back on,
or I get the "You need to shut down and restart your computer...etc" message in the gray box with apple logo(this is a kernal panic?),
or the white screen with apple logo and spinning wheel continues indefinately(I have waited for upto an hour with no change)
Over the last four days since I got my machine assembled I have tried numerous slight variations in the bios but have most strictly adhered to the bios pictures on tonymacs iboot+multibeast page, I have also disconnected everything except the main SSD, the Disc drive, the video card, 4gigs of ram, the fans/cooling pump, & the front panel led/reset & pwr switches. I even replaced the LG super multi drive with a Gear Head Triple formet drive http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/6 ... VD-Triple/ since the lg was very noisey and I wondered if it might have not been reading th mac disc but the gear head drive though not as noisey behaves in much the same way. I hope this information is useful in helping me solve my problems and doesn't become yet another long post that someone with a different problem is stuck reading. I have attached a couple pics and will post more below.
Thanks in advance for any replies.