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Problems with Acer M3800 Desktop PC

I am running into severe problems getting MacOSX installed. I tried serveral prepatched distros: iAtkos7, iPC 10.5.6, Snow Leopard from Hazard and SnowOSX 3.6. With all of them i get a reboot on DVD boot. Just SnowOSX 3.6 is hanging at the…

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@Efzeak Published 2010-02-17
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I am running into severe problems getting MacOSX installed. I tried serveral prepatched distros: iAtkos7, iPC 10.5.6, Snow Leopard from Hazard and SnowOSX 3.6.

With all of them i get a reboot on DVD boot. Just SnowOSX 3.6 is hanging at the appledecrypt saying its waiting for decrypt.

Tried the following: Set SATA to AHCI or IDE Emulation --> didnt help
Disabled SATA completly --> didnt help

Here are my system specs:
Acer M3800
CPUID-Z says:
Model: EG43M
Chipset: Intel P45/P43 Rev. A3
Southbridge: 82801JR (ICH10R)
LPCIO: IT8270
Biosversion: P01-A2 (11. August 2008)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300
Graphics: ATI Radeon 4650

Any ideas what to do? With my old PC (AMD based nforce2 system) i got MacOSX running quiet well, so does my laptop (Intel based). But in order of a real usage i want to get in running an my actual desktop pc.

Help is really appreciated.

Many
Efzeak

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