Ah OK.

Well......I've tried the maxmem thing and no dice with that; in actual fact I've checked and the chipset driver I'm using (AppleNForce) has been patched for systems with over 4gb. Even so I;ve reinstalled ipc and get the same messages (with or without maxmem).

I'm downloading iAtkos now but i'm starting to lose hope here.

NB: I checked the bios again and although I dont have an AHCI option I do have ACPI enabled on the bios and no way of disabling it as the option is greyed out (I dont even know what ACPI is to be honest so ingore this if I'm being a total noob; it's just a similar anacronym to AHCI so thought it worth mentioning ).

Big thanks to Imkantus for all the help so far; keep it flowing dude!

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