lol yes somewhat successfully…it was booting like every third time.
admittedly i did not read that there were these issues. i spent the last weeks worth of free time trying to revive my mavericks tower and when i got sick of dickin around w it i just went to town on my laptop. i didn't read anything in the instal guide that mentions the graphics issue. figures that since it was soooo dang easy it wouldn't work w this laptop lol. well thanks for your time looks like back to the drawing board w my desktop.