Hello trying to install Snow Leopard on this Acer Aspire Model PEW71 - 5733Z-4477

I appreciate any direction, success or failure....?

Acer Aspire PEW71 - 5733Z-4477

CPU and chipset1 Intel® Pentium® processor P6200/P6300 (3 MB L3 cache, 2.13/2.27 GHz, DDR3 1066 MHz, 35 W), supporting Intel® 64 architecture, Intel® Smart Cache

Mobile Intel® HM55 Express Chipset
Memory1, 3, 4, Dual-channel DDR3 SDRAM support:

Up to 4 GB of DDR3 system memory, upgradable to 8 GB using two soDIMM modules5

Display 15.6" HD 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, high-brightness (200-nit) Acer CineCrystal™ TFT LCD
16:9 aspect ratio
Graphics Intel® HD Graphics with 128 MB of dedicated system memory, supporting Microsoft® DirectX® 10

Dual independent display support
16.7 million colors
External resolution / refresh rates6:

VGA port up to 2560 x 1600: 60 Hz

MPEG-2/DVD decoding
WMV9 (VC-1) and H.264 (AVC) decoding
Audio Two built-in stereo speakers
High-definition audio support
MS-Sound compatible
Built-in microphone
Storage Hard disk drive

250/320/500/640/750 GB or larger1, 7,

2-in-1 card reader, supporting:

Secure Digital™ (SD) Card and MultiMediaCard™ (MMC)

Optical media drive 8X DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive:

Read: 24X CD-ROM, 24X CD-R, 24X CD-RW, 8X DVD-ROM, 8X DVD-R, 8X DVD+R, 6X DVD-ROM DL, 6X DVD-R DL, 6X DVD+R DL, 6X DVD-RW, 6X DVD+RW, 5X DVD-RAM
Write: 24X CD-R, 16X CD-RW, 8X DVD-R, 8X DVD+R, 4X DVD-R DL, 4X DVD+R DL, 6X DVD-RW, 8X DVD+RW, 5X DVD-RAM

Webcam Acer Video Conference1, featuring:

Acer Crystal Eye webcam

Wireless and networking WLAN1, 8, 9,:

Acer InviLink™ Nplify™ 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
Supporting Acer SignalUp™ wireless technology

LAN: 10/100 Mbps
Privacy control1 BIOS user, supervisor, HDD passwords
Kensington lock slot
Dimensions and weight 381 (W) x 253 (D) x 25/34 (H) mm (15 x 9.96 x 0.98/1.33 inches)
2.6 kg (5.74 lbs.)10 with 6-cell battery pack
Power adapter and battery ACPI 3.0 CPU power management standard: supports Standby and Hibernation power-saving modes
2-pin 40 W Acer MiniGO AC adapter:

93.2 (W) x 48 (D) x 32.2 (H) mm (3.66 x 1.88 x 1.26 inches)
180 g (0.39 lbs.)10 with 250 cm DC cable
205 g (0.39 lbs.)10 with 250 cm DC cable and one AC power plug

48.8 W 4400 mAh 6-cell Li-ion standard battery pack
Battery life: 5 hours11
ENERGY STAR®
Input and control 103-/104-/107-key Acer FineTip keyboard with independent standard numeric keypad, international language support
Multi-gesture touchpad, supporting two-finger scroll, pinch, rotate, flip
Media control keys (printed on keyboard): play/pause, stop, previous, next, volume up, volume down
Input and output 2-in-1 card reader (SD™, MMC)
Three USB 2.0 ports
External display (VGA) port
Headphone/speaker jack
Microphone-in jack
Ethernet (RJ-45) port
DC-in jack for AC adapter

Got Snow Leopard 10.6.3 installed and running, got the ethernet LAN card to work, but not the Atheros AR9285 wireless adapter to work, nor could I get multibeast to boot it up, so I threw in the towel and installed windows back on the machine.

Hi dolphans1,

Need some help, I got the same laptop. Using ISO by Hazard, I successfully installed OSX using the command: -x -v busratio=20 cpus=1

By selecting: the latest Chameleon, Legacy 10.2.0 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD, and 10.6.1 and 10.6.2.

However, during the boot time, I keep getting rebooted after I see the apple logo. Did I missed a package? or missed a step?

Thanks in advance,
debox

Sorry for the late reply, just saw your post today, as for some reason Im not notified when someone leaves a post.

I have never tried Hazard, I used Tony Mac CD and an Official Snow Leopard 10.6.3 install DVD.

d-1

Originally Posted by godebox

Hi dolphans1,

Need some help, I got the same laptop. Using ISO by Hazard, I successfully installed OSX using the command: -x -v busratio=20 cpus=1

By selecting: the latest Chameleon, Legacy 10.2.0 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD, and 10.6.1 and 10.6.2.

However, during the boot time, I keep getting rebooted after I see the apple logo. Did I missed a package? or missed a step?

Thanks in advance,
debox

Hey guys,

I've got the same machine and achieved very good results with iAtkos L2 (Mac OS X 10.7.5).

My installation settings were as follows:

Bootloader > Chameleon 2.1
Bootloader Options > Graphics Enabler, Built-in Ethernet
Patches > FakeSMC, Disabler, RTC
SATA IDE > AHCI SATA
VoodooHDA > 2.1
USB > USB
Wireless > Atheros 9285
PS/2
Laptop Battery

Everything is working except LAN (which I forgot to add during installation), Webcam, 1366x768 resolution and hardware acceleration. I also set it up on a 30GB partition for dual booting. I can access all my Windows drives from the Mac.