unitedistand Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I've encountered an interesting problem. I've instaled Jas 10.4.6 dvd ISO. Immediately after the install of OSX is finished and it goes to restart, I get OS X's Throbber atop the desktop and that's as far as it will go. I've waited for a day to see if a length of time would help, but nothing happens. I get no harddrive/dvd-rom activity, no mouse/keyboard activity seems to do anything. I've tried entering in cpus=1 into the startup console, still with no success. I installed the AMD Base system with sse2 and sse3 patches, which were inclued on the dvd at install. Also, after manually restarting, nothing happens after the POST, as if no bootloader had been installed. also, after going into the startup disk section of the utilities, the OSX setup doesn't reccognise any boot information on the harddrive, only what's on the dvd. Installation specs: Asus A8N-SLI w/ nVidia nForce4 chipset AMD athlon-64 x2 4600+ 4096 mb DDR333 ram 160 gb UDMA ata-100 harddrive HP Lightscribe dvd+-r/rw/cd-rw combo drive Help would greatly be appriciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 The packages you should have chosen: 10.4.6 Combo Update AMD BaseSystem AMD SSE2 OR AMD SSE3 (not both) 10.4.6 SemjaZa's V1.2 AMD Decrypts http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=4249 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unitedistand Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 The same thing happened again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abysmal Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Have you blessed the drive so it will boot on its own? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unitedistand Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 oh come on.... that's not helping... again, not only will it NOT boot, but it won't restart after it gets to the part where it's supposed to after it does the optimization.... again, I get the throbber and that's it for the setup. It gets stuck on the resetting section after the install and it WON'T boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unitedistand Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 I'm really in need of help here. Installed both the sse2 and sse3 patches and the combo patch, the 10.4.6 SemjaZa's V1.2 AMD Decrypts patches, and the amd base system, then reinstalled with the same things minus the sse2 patch, both trying with the 1 and 2 cpu options. I'm almost begging for help here as it seems that noone else is seeming to have this sort've problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tguless Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Having the exact same problem on A8N-SLI premium motherboard. I would really appreciate if someone can give me a pointer on how to do this. Thanks, Ted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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