Recent content by mantroll

NEWBIE Success! I just want to add to the many who've had success with the HP 8300. This PC, with the excellent tools provided on the site, really is as easy as you could reasonably expect coming from a completely non-tech background. The only issues i had were understanding the language (which...

RESOLVED! OK, Sierra is now booting from the HD :) For newbies like myself who are having trouble with (what i now know to be) a pretty simple installation on an HP 8300, where i was messing-up: I was erasing the HD in Disk Utility before booting the OS from the Clover boot screen. This time...

@trs96 So, i re-did my installation from scratch, and have progressed a wee bit further. After running Multibeast with recommended settings from your guide, i ejected the USB and restarted the computer. This time it loads from the HD, but, it is really, really slow: the progress bar hangs about...

Hi, I'm trying my first install of Sierra on an HP 8300 Elite. Things seem to have gone well in that I have Sierra installed -however, I can only boot using the USB; if the USB is not plugged-in, Sierra won't load (screen is blank apart from a flashing '_' sign. I used the installation guide...