Install Retail Snow Leopard on AMD Phenom II and MSI 790FX-GD70 (790FX-SB750 Chipset)
Hello to all! I m very glad to be here! I am trying to install Snow Leopard on an AMD Phenom II machine with 790FX-SB750 chipset motherboard (MSI 790FX-GD70). I used this tutorial: Install Snow Leopard on AMD PC, Laptop I followed every…
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- @erineos Published 2010-03-30
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Hello to all! I m very glad to be here!
I am trying to install Snow Leopard (muz zle.nl/showwiki.php?title=Snow+Leopard) on an AMD Phenom II machine with 790FX-SB750 chipset motherboard (MSI 790FX-GD70). I used this tutorial:
Install Snow Leopard on AMD PC, Laptop (tar anfx.com/install-snow-leopard-on-amd)
I followed every step of this tutorial exactly exept the DSDT patch which failed. When i tryed to boot, i got the apple logo screen and the message that i must restart my system with the power button. After that, I put some kexts i found (i deleted the IOATAFamily.kext) and now i am getting a Kernel Panic: Unable to find driver for platform: "ACPI". I also tryed to boot with the following kernel flags but with kernel panics: -x32 -f -x -v and cpus=1 -f -x -v. What i must do, please help! I am a huge fan of Apple and i want to run Snow Leopard on my system. Thank you very much in advance!
My system specs:
AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition
MSI 790FX-GD70
8GB Super Talent DDR3 1600MHz
2TB Western Digital Caviar Green SATA II
ATI Radeon HD 4350
ASUS Xonar D2X
LG DVD-RW SATA II
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Here is a photo of the kernel panic i get when i am booting with -v:
I put some kexts and i used the BlackKnight kernel and now the Apple logo with the spinning cycle appears but it's not proceeding. I am not getting kernel panic but it's stuck in the screen with the Apple logo and the spinning cycle. I am booting with -x32 maxmem=4096 busratio=20. What i must do?
Thank you very much for your answer and for your time!
I can't find Quoop 10.3.0 kernel. Could you please give me a link? Thank again!
It worked! Thank you very much atlee!
I used the Empire EFI 1.085 for AMD and the following kernel flags: -force64 busratio=20.
I have a little problem. I istalled this graphic driver for my ATI Radeon HD 4650: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20… ↗ The max resolution i am getting is 1400x1050 with the flag "Graphics Mode"="1920x1080x32". I want to make it 1920x1080. How it can be done? Thank you very much once again!
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@erineosI put some kexts and i used the BlackKnight kernel and now the Apple logo with the spinning cycle appears but it's not proceeding. I am not getting kernel panic but it's stuck in the screen with the Apple logo and the spinning cycle. I am booting with -x32 maxmem=4096 busratio=20. What i must do?
Get yourself Empire EFI for AMD bootcd.
Boot the CD, select your Snow leopard DVD, Install, restart
Boot your Empire EFI again, select installed partition
Update your OS to 10.6.3, install Quoop 10.3.0 kernel patched for AMD
You will need the SB700 Chipset kext called ATIATA optimized for Snow leopard in your extra's folder, also you will need fakesmc.kext inside extra's folder. EvOReboot, NullCPUPowermanament
Everything should work after that, then you will have to edit DSDT to make a few tweaks but it is very possible, dont recommend AMD but AMD is possible.
Hello. I am trying a similar installation using Empire EFI. My system specs are:
Mobo: Asus M4A785TD-V EVO (AMD 785G chipset)
BIOS: American Megatrends v2005
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 3.2ghz
Graphics: ATI Radeon 4830
Hard Drive: Western Digital 750 GB
Tried installing using Empire EFI for AMD disk, then I just get a blank screen after inserting retail disk.
i hope you can my help.
i having MSI 790FX-GD70 and 8GB 1333mhz corsair and 2x SATA 500gb wd black and 1x SATA 1TB wd green 2x ATI 5750
have Empire EFI boot and say error: Kernel Traps hang and freezes
how you working boot?
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Bassie
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Sources & Contributor Provenance (4 credited usernames · Thread #5828)
| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @erineos | Primary Author | 5 | 2010-03-30 → 2010-04-12 |
| @bassie86 | Contributor | 2 | 2011-08-15 → 2011-08-20 |
| @atlee | Contributor | 1 | 2010-04-09 |
| @holloweyed | Contributor | 1 | 2010-08-04 |