@natewill18
In your bios do you have your CD drive enabled as a boot option. Also I am not 100% sure but check to see if our DVD drive is set to master. Is it on its own cable or does it share with a HD?


PS I checked the myspace link out. I noticed the bottom Youtube video you had was from a caller from Citra, Fl Id love to know who that was cause I went to high school in Citra Florida and I can picture someone making that call.

Idk about the video lol I jus thought it was funny.


I hav the dvd drive as the first boot option.
it shares an ide cable with a hdd.
Its in ide slave mode

Update: Interestingly enough I put in a legite copy of xp 64 and I still go the blinkin cursor

P.S. in the video it says his name is Danny

MY DVD drive doesnt work
 

So Ive been up all night an dIve come to the cnclusion my hdd wont work so I've been researching on how to boot from a usb exernall hdd without a floppy disk (because I dont have one)

I have checked out all the tutorials and guides, but apparently I'm too stupid to get it. lol
I tried like 20 different things.

-making a virtual floppy disk drive image then trying to put the image on my usb hdd

-d/l Free DOS and trying to make a bootable flash drive

i must not understand a step b/c I have no clue wat to do.

Im tryin to do this but i dont know wat they're talkin about
You can boot through USB..

"Download FreeDOS and make a bootable DOS USB Key. Copy Win XP installer on this."

Sounds simple lol
Can anyone help me with these instructions ?

Ok, it's clear that I need a dedicated graphics card but I really don't want to spent much on it (several reasons). The cheapest cards I found both have a Radeon chipset for which I can't find anything on the web wether they are supported in OSX86 in any way.

I'm looking at these cards:
- MSI Radeon HD3450 256 MB PCI-E
- MSI Radeon HD4350 256 MB HDMI PCI-E

Does anybody have experience with these chipsets? Or a general idea wether it might work or not?

Again, no fancy stuff required, just a proper resolution on my 22" screen...

@mcmadd

Im not sure about the price on those models but here are two options. The second has dual DVI as you may want to add a second monitor. Two 22" monitors are better than one ;)

ASUS EN8400GS 256MB $22.99 after $10 rebate

EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB $39.99 after $30 rebate

Im sure you could even find less expensive cards without rebates. You want to make sure when you look at cards, especially budget models, that when it lists memory it means on-board. Sometimes they advertise a card with 256 or 512 and then when you read the fine print it will say something like 128MB on-board and 128MB shared. I know people have problems with graphics that use shared memory though I have no idea how a card like that will behave.

P.S. Did you recently pick up your 22" monitor? if you which model is it if you don't mind me asking.

I was thinking more in the lines of this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...133253&Tpk=PNY

Might replace my whole hardware park in one go...:D

I'm in the Netherlands so ordering from newegg is not an option. But what I get from your advice is to better avoid the Radeons andf go for a GeForce 9*** chip, right? I found some very nicely priced ones that I'll investigate on first.

Of course I don't mind you asking. I bought mine about 10 months ago, it's a Samsung SyncMaster 226BW and I love it.
I don't do DTP stuff anymore so I didn't bother to look at color calibration stuff etc... I just wanted a nice price/quality for a big screen. At the time this was my best buy.

Yeah I looked for the Quadro but I guess it was in a different category.

No I wouldn't say so. Im just more familiar with Nvidia Cards. I had a few bad experiences years ago and Ive always been an Nvidia fan... Before that I used Voodoo cards from 3Dfx. Nvidia bought them out.
ATI cards are fine. This link is a bit dated but will give you an idea:
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/in...Graphics_Cards

I do commercial photography and when I get home I really have no interest in picking up a camera so I purchased two 22" budget Acer models for around $130 each. I knew going in that they were not going to be close to what I normally work with but I have been extremely happy with them.

I think I'm going to get this one (coincidentally one you mentioned):
ASUS EN8400GS SILENT/HTP/256M GeForce 8400 GS

Unfortunately I have to pay 35,= EURO's for it (without shipping) which seems a bit more expensive than in the US. I'll do some more shopping tonight.

OK so I boght a new HDD (ide 40 gb) a new DD drive. Im runnin the XX OSx MAc 10.5.5 beta PPF1-3 image on a dvd. I get to install the dvd and everything. I get past darwin w/o any of the boot flags and symbols. Before Installation I click customize in order to pick my kexts.

Wat else should i choose ?
Bootloaders ?
Kernels?
Tools?
(theres a bunch of stuff to choose from)

So far w/e combo I have picked ( includin not pickin anthin) has bought me to a Kernel panic screen after the installation reboot

P.S> I've yet to install a image that i injected my SB700 kexts into.
Do you think this could help ?

alright so
I clicked all the kernels and the chameleon bootloader. Im aloowed to tr to bot from the hdd. but i get the infamous

"unknown SigSev code 0"

I tried bootin with -v -f -cpus=1 -legacy

and it gave me the same problem.

I feel like im really close lol