i been trying this for days now. googling & googling some more..

i gotten 10.5.1 to work on it beofre (kalaway) i think. with just a basic install. i need to get 10.5.5+ to use the iphone SDK and see if that something i can get in to. if so i'll jump and get a MAC.. but i don't want to buy a mac to find out it's way over my head.

so i downloaded iAtkos 5i and burned it with img_burn @ 4X. install loads fine and i tried many diffrent options that i could think that would be for my motherboard.

if i try the voodoo option it reboots with that popup window saying i need to hold the power button or hit the reset. and if i don't use it the computer just keeps rebooting..

i have a gigabyte ga-8vm800pmd-775-rh motherboard.

bord:
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16813128023

full specs:

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Supported CPU
CPU Socket Type LGA 775
CPU Type Pentium D / Pentium 4 HT / Celeron D
FSB 800/533MHz
Supported CPU Technologies Hyper-Threading Technology
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Chipsets
North Bridge VIA P4M800 PRO
South Bridge VIA VT8237R
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Memory
Number of Memory Slots 2×240pin
Memory Standard DDR2 533
Maximum Memory Supported 2GB
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Expansion Slots
AGP Slots 1 x AGP 4X / 8X
PCI Express x16 None
PCI Slots 3
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Storage Devices
PATA 2 x ATA100 4 Dev. Max
SATA 1.5 Gb/s 2
SATA RAID 0/1
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Onboard Video
Onboard Video Chipset S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro IGP
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Onboard Audio
Audio Chipset Realtek ALC655
Audio Channels 6 Channels
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Onboard LAN
LAN Chipset Realtek 8100C
Max LAN Speed 10/100Mbps
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Rear Panel Ports
PS/2 2
COM 1
LPT 1
Video Ports - D-Sub
USB - 4 x USB 2.0
Audio Ports - 3 Ports
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Onboard USB
Onboard USB 2 x USB 2.0 connectors support 4 ports
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this is what im using under a windows install..


intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz (925S)

computer - ACPI x86-based PC

disk drives - 400GIG ST3400620A ATA Device

display adapters - NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS (512MB) (AGP)

dvd/cd-rom drives - sony dvd rw aw-g170a ata device

keyboards - HID keyboard device

network adapters - realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC

Sound - realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R) Audio controller

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well i think i tryed the install every witch way i can from reading from the forums.

i also downloaded and tryed:

IPC 10.5.6 -- install won't load @ all

XxX 10.5.5

and downloading iDeneb 1.3

hope to get this to work someday.. till then im leaving my desktop without a OS so i have something to keep trying.


EDIT*
i was playing with the IPC 10.5.6 and hit the F8 on the bootloader and typed " -x " and got a error i didn't see before.

it loaded to the gray apple screen then grayed out and scrolled some black text.

:

please contact the voodoo kernel dev-team with a photo of the information printed below..

this is the picture i took of it

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/...ACPICERROR.jpg

it saying something about the voodoo. i think this is why none of them are working. even with the IATKOS.. it just keeps rebooting if i don't use the voodoo files and when i do it acts like it wants to load then pops up that gray window asking to hold the power down or hit the rest button.

could this be why i cant get it working ? and why would the 10.5.1 (kalaway) work fine and not the newest one?

Check here, theres everything you need to install iatkos, try with another kernel

would it install and boot up with just a kernel?

so far i tried all 3 of them listed in this install

9.5.0 kernel voodoo - on boot get popup saying to reboot/reset

9.5.0 kernel fassl - same as voodoo

9.2.0 kernel ToH - reboot loop - same without kernel

could this be caused by defalt decrypters " appledecrypt "

defalt SMbios enablers " smbios-efi "

defalt " disabler.kext "

only other options i tried with these are:

ACPI > x86 ACPI

Drivers > VGA > nVidia > NVkush/NVinject : EFI strings > 7xxx > 7600 GS 512MB

Network > Realtek 8139


am i clicking something wroung or could i be missing something ?

i tryed agin using the voodoo file and some basic drivers.

still had the reboot/reset window come up. so i rebooted and hit the F8 option and typed -x -v and got to this point.

still looks greek to me.

FIXED IT!!

the whole prob was installing the voodoo kernel ! with my system it will only work with the 9.2 sleep kernel. after trying almost every OSx86 install i could find i found out it would only boot with that kernel.

it took me a while but i found a good install for 10.5.5 that had the kernel i needed " iDeneb " v1.3 10.5.5..

thanks to all that tried to help !!

i got it installed on my desktop and laptop " inspiron 2200 " without any probs!

i think it's time to go get a real mac. im really diggin the OS NICE WORK !!

Good to hear that