hey guys. i thought i was pretty good at this computer shit but apparently not. i have a hp slimline athlon 64 x 2 processor chipset geforce 6150se nForce 430
motherboard asus m2n61-ar 400 gb sata 3g. Have iATKOS v7 and when i try to install it does the whole black screen with the text loading and says still waiting for root device. i been working on this for 3 days now. i could careless if windows vista stays on my computer at all. when i try to setup bios settings i have no options like changing master slave and all that crap. trying to talk to hp right now to figure out why i dont have any options. can someone help me?

Originally Posted by glj88

hey guys. i thought i was pretty good at this computer shit but apparently not. i have a hp slimline athlon 64 x 2 processor chipset geforce 6150se nForce 430
motherboard asus m2n61-ar 400 gb sata 3g. Have iATKOS v7 and when i try to install it does the whole black screen with the text loading and says still waiting for root device. i been working on this for 3 days now. i could careless if windows vista stays on my computer at all. when i try to setup bios settings i have no options like changing master slave and all that crap. trying to talk to hp right now to figure out why i dont have any options. can someone help me?

Hi there,
You could talk to HP all day long and possibly nothing will happen. That nForce 430 is not fully AHCI supported, so that option won't be there, maybe?

I got a link with information of working version and short installation guide for HP model that is very similar to yours.

Let me see if I can dig it up.

thank you for checking into that for me! i have had windows since 1998 and this vista about 3 years ago and i bought my mac about 2 years ago. no i hate windows and want nothing but mac. is there anyway to change that nForce out for something compatible? im downloading iATKOS v4a. it says its only for AMD. could not having the right version be the problem?

Originally Posted by glj88

thank you for checking into that for me! i have had windows since 1998 and this vista about 3 years ago and i bought my mac about 2 years ago. no i hate windows and want nothing but mac. is there anyway to change that nForce out for something compatible? im downloading iATKOS v4a. it says its only for AMD. could not having the right version be the problem?

Hi,
I don't think it's the version, but more of which one has the correct chipsets driver for your nforce 430.

where can i find out which one is right for my computer?

Hi,
About the chipsets, it is part of the motherboard south bridge. Changing for something different? very hard.
The version V4a does have some good drivers. It does come with nForce driver, but doesn't say which one. Hopefully it's the one you need.

Cheers

Originally Posted by glj88

where can i find out which one is right for my computer?

If you almost have V4a done then go with it and see what happens.