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Acer (Aspire 4520) Laptop, compatibility

my laptop is acer aspire 4520 what i want to know is if my motherboard chipset is supported by any (Leopard) release, please tell me if you know, so i don't waste more time, thanks…

Primary Author
@agel1 Published 2008-12-09
Collection
OSx86 Core & 10.X
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8,537 historical reads · 4 curated field notes (from 5 dispatches) · 2008-12-09 – 2009-04-26
Credited Voices (5)
@agel1@nfoav8or@Phi@hadri.ac@waladi

my laptop is acer aspire 4520

what i want to know is if my motherboard chipset is supported by any (Leopard) release, please tell me if you know, so i don't waste more time, thanks
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AMD (Turion) Athlon 64 X2 Processor - TK-55 (1.8GHz, 512kB L2 Cache combined)

Nvidia nForce 610M chipset

Nvidia GeForce 7000M onboard graphics capable of up to 256MB VRAM (shared)

Audio - Realtek ALC268 (HDA)

1GB DDR2 667MHz RAM (512MBx2)
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Synthesized Community Field Notes

4 technical responses curated from 5 original dispatches

Field Note #2 @Phi 2009-02-24

Hello, I have an AcerAspire 5520, details are much similar to U2Desire:

Processor & chipset
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology
NVIDIA nForce® 630M chipset

Memory
DDR2 memory 2GB

HDD
S-ATA hard disc drive

Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce® 7000M con fino a 896 MB di tecnologia TurboCache™

ACPI 3.0 CPU power management standard

I've been trying to install leopard but the installer does not recognize my HD, not just the partition I created for leopard (40gb, primary partition, created with gnuparted) but the complete HD! (where win & lin are installed and work OK).
The "disk utilities window" and the 2select where to install window" are all blank after installer "gathers disk information" during installation. Any clue?

Field Note #3 @hadri.ac 2009-04-22

have you try to change the SATA type to AHCI mode ( on BIOS )

Field Note #4 @waladi 2009-04-26

Sorry problem with rebooting after AHCI Mode setup is only for Win****.

Problem actually is in the line :
SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed ...etc

any suggestion?

Sources & Contributor Provenance (5 credited usernames · Thread #1711)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@agel1Primary Author12008-12-09
@nfoav8orContributor12008-12-09
@PhiContributor12009-02-24
@hadri.acContributor12009-04-22
@waladiContributor12009-04-26