nForce 430 Help
My motherboard is a MCP61PM-GM ( No idea who makes this) It has a AMD Athlon 2 x 2 processor. It has a nForce 430 chipset. So basically I have tried the Empire EFI method, and it tries to boot, and it either freezes a little ways after…
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My motherboard is a MCP61PM-GM ( No idea who makes this)
It has a AMD Athlon 2 x 2 processor.
It has a nForce 430 chipset.
So basically I have tried the Empire EFI method, and it tries to boot, and it either freezes a little ways after detecting the chipset, I have also tried to boot from a USB DVD-ROM and get the " Waiting for root device" error.
I know the video on this board isn't compatible, I am gonna buy a PCI-E card to fix this problem.
Also I am looking for a card thats PCI-E that is fully working on Snow Leopard in the 1GB RAM + range any suggestions would be great.
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@00010It has a nForce 430 chipset. So basically I have tried the Empire EFI method, and it tries to boot, and it either freezes a little ways after detecting the chipset, I have also tried to boot from a USB DVD-ROM and get the " Waiting for root device" error.
My Mainboard has the same chipset & using this (prior) AMD release of EmpireEFI worked just fine for me:
media fire.com/?m5wzzwyfg4m
@00010I know the video on this board isn't compatible, I am gonna buy a PCI-E card to fix this problem. Also I am looking for a card thats PCI-E that is fully working on Snow Leopard in the 1GB RAM + range any suggestions would be great.
I love my ATI. I think the HD4670 is a good choice for the mid-price sector, you just need to reinstall 10.6.2 Framebuffer kexts after 10.6.3 Update - the only deficit of the 46X0 cards is that you can just connect one display - either through VGA or DVI - no dual monitoring possible.
Of course a GeForce 9 (or one of it's silly rebrands ) is easier to set up, as they tend to work just using GraphicsEnabler...