So many woes on G31M3-L V2 mobo

velvetkittyn · #1 08-27-2009, 11:34 PM

Thinking back on the success I had with OS X on my old Dell laptop ages ago, I thought I'd try to see how well it ran on my new desktop...

So far I've been fighting this for days - scouring multiple forums, google, and I'm getting to be at my wits end.

First off, my system is:
MSI G31M3-L V2 motherboard.
4 gigs ram.
nVidia GeForce 9500 w/1 gig
2 SATA hard drives (1 for Vista, the other was going to be dedicated to OSX)
SATA DVD-burner

I first started with both iaktos v.7 and iPC - and both of them just reboot almost immediately, even after changing every BIOS setting I've been able to search up (enable/disable XD, enable/disable set_max_cpu, etc.)

My ancient Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD boots just fine and even installs - but on reboot with -v it fails everytime at:

Code:

MAC framework successfully initialized
using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers

iDeneb 1.4 boots and installs just fine too, but fails at the same point.

From my continued searching it's starting to seem that either a modified BIOS or doing the DSDT thing are going to be my only hope? Am I missing something blatantly obvious or am I just SOL?

Frenzy · #2 06-10-2011, 02:14 PM

i got the same mainboard and i had the same problem.hangs on 'using buffer header. . .'. this error is related to ACPI and APIC kext. i past through it following some guide posted on other site. i can post that link if its allowed here.