Hi there hackint0sh... i have been at this for days and days. every day i got closer and closer but now i have hit a brick wall! I can run iDeneb 1.4 in VMWare 6.5 and use disk utility to format a small partition of 10gb for now! but all that happens is what most have called "the grey screen of death" with a cross over the apple.

after millions of installs with different fixes and patches i am ready to give up.. i have searched near and far for help but keep getting led onto something different everytime.. so for your much appreciated help and for others in similar shoes please take a look at my hardware and please try figure out which patches i need to install.

Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 2.40GHz
ACPI Multiprocessor x64 based PC
NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT
Realtek HD Audio

please if you would like me to send photos to you let me know and i will take some screenshots of my hardware

also please note that i have tried bot mounting the iDeneb 1.4 image and installing from DVD. but same results..

thanks for your help guys