Ok so i go through all the motions of installing and it says that it installed fine but when i take the cd out and boot it just gives me the apple logo bg and thats it.

I tried using the -v @ bootup and it tells me that EHCI is unable to take control from the bios appleusbehci[0x3aa9800] etc etc oh and @ the bottom it says ACPI CA 20060421

so thats one of my problems the other is when i started to look into it i ran -v @ install and there were a load of errors there too saying something to the effect of skipping duplicate extension com.apple.driver.applepciconfigurator.

Can you please post your full specs, no links

Mobo: Intel DG43NB ATX G43
CPU: Intel Q8200 Quad 2.33GHz
RAM: Kingston 800mhz Non-ECC DL5 Dimm
HDD: Seagate cude 7200rpm 500GB Sata
DVD: Dual Layer DVDR Sata

ok so i reinstalled with a tut from this site and these are the errors i get when i use boot options: cpus=1 -v

mpvhash=4095
hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
PAE Enabled
64bit mode enabled
Darwin Kernal version 9.5.0: wed sep 3 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1288.7.58~/RELEASE i386
standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
vm_page_bootstrap: 500659 free pages and 23629 wired pages
mig_table_max_displ = 79
skipping duplicate extension "com.apple.driver.appleAHCIPort" with older/same version(1.5.1 -> 9.9.9).
skipping duplicate extension "com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage" with older/same version(1.1.1 -> 9.9.9).
skipping duplicate extension "com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI" with older/same version(1.0.0 -> 9.9.9).
skipping duplicate extension "com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily" with older/same version(1.0.3 -> 9.9.9).
Extension "com.apple.driver.appleACPIPlatform" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi compnents; use only one style
Extension "com.apple.driver.appleIntelCPUpoermanagement" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi compnents; use only one style

Ok so i have a friend that installed iAtkos 10.5.5 on an external and it runs perfectly on his machine but when i try to get mine to use it, it makes the bios freeze untill i remove it, and when i do it proceedes as normal. if i cant get any help soon i will have to just buy a new board

How did you customize your installation? is this ich9? ich#? do you have AHCI Sata Support? XD bit Enabled? in the BIOS?

I've tried literally almost every combination i can, i've followed the tuts in the link in your sig, other than that you'll need to be specific for me plz mainly because i'm a n00b to this, is there any reason i wouldn't be able to run it virtually? oh and yes XD and ACHI are enabled

what if i change mobo's to the gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3