Hmm, brand new SATA II hdd is plugged into SATA port and BIOS sees it. Maybe hdd have to be somehow preformatted or something too be seen by Zephyroth Leopard? I just don't understand. Why on earth hdd stops running... By the way, after trying once more I can be more precise, hdd stops running after this line: "firewire unable to determine security-mode. Defaulting to full-secure"

Forgot to add in previos post=
cpu- amd athlon x64 3400+ socket 754

I have the same problem than fractal. My laptop is an HP Pavilion dv2164 with nforce MCP51 an a 120GB SATA, when boot from DVD all is OK until in the Disk Utility where recognice my HD but no my partitions, this ISO include the kext from Medevil for nforce sata??

What is the problem??

Sorry about my english I speak Spanish like fractal.

something weird I found also is: I have 2 hd´s. 200bg for M$ windows, and files, and a 20gb for osx - for now -. When I erased my osx partition and remaded it, it was ok. But, when I finished installed osx and had some problems in the video configs, I decided to re-install it, and when I get to disk utility again to re-format the 20gb, guess what? my M$ windows vista partition - named system so far - got the name changed for disk0s01 (something like that)... I guess it was made when the bootloader was installing...

anyway I had no time to test the windows boot yet, but, in some few hours - God I wanna go home right now, can´t take this job anymore - I´ll be testing it and sending my reports.

tchau!
braid

edit: oh and by the way: it seems nforce 4 lan is working fine, and ac97 sound too. Just tell me what the amd utility does?

My Problems:

1- iLife08 is very unstable, i already downloaded the latest updates but it still continues going down when doing some process with it.

2- Sound suddently stops and i have to reboot to get sound again, sometimes it starts working again from nothing

Cpu: Amd Atlhon
Chipset: nForce4
Sound: Realtek Ac97

Configuration:

Latest Toh Kernel
Ac97
10.5.2 kexts

nah you dont have to delete anything, theres a site with more linux dumps for your sound chip, but i cant remember the site, is was where i found the patcher as well< google search it i guess...

good luck to ya!

freshcuts, did you drag and drop the "alc880.txt" , onto the AppleHDAPatcher1.20 icon/application, or did you open the application itself?

your only supposed to drag and drop the alc880.txt over the app icon, then it will popup and run its script and show you the output, at the end it should say "successfully patched"

as I said i did it. Re-installed and use the 10.5.2 geforce + 128mb and here we are, 100% system working. sound ok, lan ok, video ok. Now tomorrow, its the programs trials... ~programs...hm... Ill put them into the test...

and windows partition is ok too.

Ok guys. Please, Im begging now. Can someone please shed some light on whats going on with my system??
Ill try to explain best I can.
If I boot from the 10.5.2 DVD it hangs on "waiting for root device".
If i try 10.5.1 it boots the installer, but its VERY slow, takes 10 minutes to even recognise my hard drives and when I try to erase my partition I allocated for Leopard, it just doesnt do anything. Ive yet to actually install it and its driving me MENTAL!!!

Please PLEASE someone help!!
Specs:
AMD 64 6000+ X2
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M55S-S3 (rev. 2.0), NVIDIA® nForce 550 chipset.
2 Gb Ram
ATI 1900XTX 512 Graphics
1 X 80gig Sata HD
1 X 250gig Sata HD
Plextor Sata DVD Drive

that's how I did it but it didnt work...
I tried installing 10.5.1 but I had a lot of probs and no sound after install.
Does that mean that my audio chip is doomed?