scuddy Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Hi guys been trying to get snow leopard installed on my asus AMD based system but to no avail. ive followed all the instructions, changed the bios settings etc and it freezes on the black screen with all the writing, stopping at [PCI configuration begin]. Ive left it for over an hour and it still hasnt moved. Ive got the AMD Phenom x4 9600 processor with the 790fx chipset, any help you can give me would be most appreciated, thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 10, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 10, 2013 I assume you're trying to install SL 10.6.3 with Nawcom's BootCD/ModUSB. What graphics card/chip do you have? Did you try any boot flags/options? For instance: -f -v -x PciRoot= arch= GraphicsEnabler= USBBusFix= cpus=1 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuddy Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 I didn't get that far, I booted the cd, then swapped discs to the snow leopard one. It booted then pressed any key, then it froze at the position I specified. The only changes I made was to the bios as shown in the tutorial. My graphics card is an Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT model 256MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuddy Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 I had a look inside my pc and found that i still had a catweasel mk4 fitted so removed that just in case it what was causing the problem but tried it again and still doesnt get past PCI configuration begin. Any ideas as to what it could be, the only cards fitted to my pci-e is my geforce 8600 gt nvidia graphics card, does this mean that my graphics card isnt supported? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 11, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 11, 2013 The cause of the problem is not your graphics card. An unsupported card does not normally prevent boot, you just have no hardware acceleration and a default resolution. Did you try any of the above flags and/or options? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuddy Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 am I right in thinking you can only use one of those flags/options at a time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 11, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 11, 2013 No, you can combine all that you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuddy Posted February 12, 2013 Author Share Posted February 12, 2013 I've tried all of them singularly but still freezes at same point, will try them all together tonight as a last resort other than that what would be my next move, I even tried -force64, still same result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 12, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 12, 2013 AMD-based systems are a challenge, to say the least. Try another kernel maybe, like Modbin... You've probably done it, but I'd search the Net for info on systems of similar setup (chipset, CPU) and check all the BIOS settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 12, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 12, 2013 have you tried npci=0x2000 0r 0x3000 flags at boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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