So I have a AMD Opteron 165, DFI lanparty UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert mobo, evga 7950GT, Seagate 80GB IDE, WD Raptor 74gb sata, WD 200gb sata .. something really happened to me. .after I burned the uphuck's dvd latest version yesterday.. I didnt know what exactly to select to install.. but whatever I tried using a IDE drive first, after installed reboot PC would just stay in First Boot Screen (With my specs) and wouldnt go into BIOS or nothing, it would proceed normally if I disconnected the IDE drive, so I tried with a Sata drive Raptor and samething what the hell =\

So now the 80gb ide and the 74gb raptor dont do nothing
I know they were both working because I was running Win2003 Enterprise on the 80gb, and I was running Win2003 Datacenter on the 74gb Raptor

I would like to ask for some help maybe I'm not choosing the right choices but here's the list if anyone knows and can tell me for sure I appreciate it thanks


- 10.4.9 Intel
10.4.9 Intel package
IOATAFamily kext from 10.4.8
- 10.4.9 AMD
10.4.9 AMD package
AppleACPIPlatform kext from 10.4.8
- Kernels
Intel SSE2 (1 April 2007)
Intel SSE3 (26 March 2007)
AMD SSE2 (1 April 2007)
AMD SSE3 (1 April 2007)
Universal (23 April 2007)
Universal (3 May 2007)
script to remove AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
- Drivers (I integrated GMA950 to intel package, it will be detected automatically)
Natit dual 0.2
Titan
nVidia mobility
ATI X1x00
ATI AGP support
GMA900 (DiaboliK)
ICH7R
USB
Azalia Audio
Realtek R1000
Ralink Wireless
PowerManagement.bundle
Intel Speedstep
CoreDuoTemp
- Applications
CopyCatX
Firefox
Adium
Skype
Colloquy
VirtueDesktops
VLC player
QuickTime codecs
X11

If you can't get to the BIOS screen then the problem is hardware, not OS X.

When you connected the IDE was it on the same channel as an optical drive? Did you make sure they both weren't primary or secondary?

Remove both drives and reboot and see if you can get to BIOS now?
If no, you might have to reset the BIOS. Depending on your motherboard, this may involve a pin on the motherboard you short to reset it.

Originally Posted by Headrush69

If you can't get to the BIOS screen then the problem is hardware, not OS X.

When you connected the IDE was it on the same channel as an optical drive? Did you make sure they both weren't primary or secondary?

Remove both drives and reboot and see if you can get to BIOS now?
If no, you might have to reset the BIOS. Depending on your motherboard, this may involve a pin on the motherboard you short to reset it.

All I know.. is I was running DVDrw on IDE slave, 80gb on IDE master .. and sata1 for my 200gb backup drive.. I was running fine windows linux.. then I installed uphuck's dvd maybe I might have checked a wrong selection.. so i rebooted and didnt move from that screen.. i unplugged all the drives and only left the 80gb and samething.. i put the raptor drive and take out that 80gb drive and it boots to windows2003 .. then i installed osx uphucks dvd on that 1 and samething.

so i'm gonna try reseting CMOS with the raptor plugged in and see..

Are you partitioning the drives using disk utility in the installer?
And if so are you making sure to pick MBR partition type?

Other than that I don't understand why the data on the drive would prevent the BIOS from starting. Are you using a bootloader?

Yes I take off the drives with OSX and Im able to get into BIOS
I resest CMOS and nothing.
I put my other 250GB Sata and installed win2003 temporarily im scared to install OSX on any of my working ones now

the 80GB IDE Seagate and the WD Raptor 74gb Sata are now non-working it seems