Ive always picked the ACHI mode thing. (Even went thru the trouble of switching my windows 7 to aci since it wouldnt boot at first)

But i'll try and install it again within the next two hours.

Gonna try the links you showed me with the wifi

In the end, i will dual boot both

yeah good. keep doing it. are you able to boot into OSX? I realize its not perfect, but can you actually get in, and see the desktop and apps and stuff?

and alright let me know what happens, I'm going to sleep, I'll be back sometime tomorrow.

and yeah, I have XP and Leopard dualbooting since my laptop can't handle better. but its great.

Yes i could actually get in but i had to use some flags to boot, thats why i asked would i have to type that every time, but you answered it perfectly.

Issues i had was wifi and itunes crashing with no sounds, hopefully the drivers you posted will solve that.

If there are no ram limitations on OSX then i'll stick with 32 bit unless theres something i dont know about.

The sound will be harder. That will require a bit of testing. But that should fix the wifi for you.

And so you when you booted the iatkos s3 v2 cd, did it just load straight through? Or did you have to use any commands to get to it? I'm trying to figure this out, because when I try to load it, I get an error about ACPI, and I have a similar board.

No it boots just fine.

I had to put my CD drive in the correct sata plug tho, for some reason it only works on port 4 and 5, and theres a option in my BIOS that says port 4/5 IDE or as SATA type, CD drive only works as IDE mode.

Anyway back on topic...

Yes i can boot just fine..

put the CD in...it goes to the screen sayins press any key or F8 to change startup options.

It won't boot correctly if i just hit enter

what do you do instead of hitting enter? You hit f8 and type what?

I type in the arch=i386 busratio=16 -v -x

Your main problem is your kernel. when you boot up, download and install this: http://dl.nawcom.com/legacy_kernel-10.7.0.pkg.zip

Nawcom has created a kernel install package for us AMD users that patches all sorts of things including the busratio problem so you don't have to boot with that flag. Also a lot of the problems that would have normally been fixed with Marvin's AMD utility has been fixed with this package alone.

The only thing you will need to do afterwards is open up your applications folder and right click on safari and press get info. In that, check the run in 32 bit mode box. A 64-bit fix for safari on our machines has not been worked out yet.

As for sound, just try different kexts related to your mobo. Search for your specific modo model on the various HCLs around the community - someone has it working somewhere.

Thank Nawcom, Netkas, AndyVand, Rominator, BlackKnight, and a slew of others that have made running osx86 on AMDs. If you run into more problems search for these names on this forum, or head over to nawcom's blog or netkas' site. You will find everything you need.

thanks for the tip, will try it once i get it working again...i did something wrong and now im hving issues lol

EDIT: man this is pissing me off.

My 4th time today installing, i DON"T know what i enabled/disabled at first to get it booting to the desktop, but now im back to step 0

bear with me folks...

Yeah if you get it to the desktop, definitly don't get rid of it. Boot -v, and then tell me where it stops. The last couple of lines if it just freezes, or if it kernel panics, what it is.