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4,159 reads · 2010-02-03 – 2010-03-16
Note Snow Leopard 10.6 NVIDIA GeForce AHCI / SATA

SL installation freezes

this is my first post, so feel free to move this thread to another forum if this isn´t the right one. i´m from germany and i hope my english is not too bad. to come to my problem: i have the original snow leopard cd and a formatted pc.…

Primary Author
@jorgozlav Published 2010-02-03
Collection
Snow Leopard 10.6
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4,159 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2010-02-03 – 2010-03-16
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@jorgozlav@shoarthing

this is my first post, so feel free to move this thread to another forum if this isn´t the right one. i´m from germany and i hope my english is not too bad.
to come to my problem:
i have the original snow leopard cd and a formatted pc.
very short time after booting snow leopard from the empire efi bootloader, the installation does not go on.
last message is "system uptime in nanoseconds", here´s a screen:

pc data:
Zotac ION ITX A with intel atom 330 and geforce 9400
pden.zo tac.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=169&category_id=15&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
device mode is ahci

does anyone have an explanation for this?

Synthesized Community Field Notes

1 technical responses curated from 2 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @shoarthing 2010-03-16

Hi - you need to disable hyperthreading [HTT] in the BIOS

Sources & Contributor Provenance (2 credited usernames · Thread #5412)
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@jorgozlavPrimary Author12010-02-03
@shoarthingContributor12010-03-16