Hi all,

I have tried to install snow leopard retail disc on my asus m2n-e sli motherboard, which uses a nforce500 chip. I have tried two approaches but still failed, it would be great if you could lead me to the right direction

Approach 1:
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/09/i...pc-hackintosh/
This link illustrates how to install snow leopard onto a disk using an existing mac with leopard. I followed Phase 2 of this guide, however I used my own method to get the guide's Phase 1 (getting retail snow leopard onto the targeted disk) done. I used a mac already with snow leopard on it, booted from the installation disc and then connected my target drive through usb and installed it there, as if I am re-installing snow leopard on my mac. It restarted and got to the desktop fine, then I performed the tasks in phase 2, installing Chameleon and also added the nforce kext. After installation I shut it down, and put this newly installed drive into my desktop (Asus M2N-E SLI).

It booted up fine, however in verbose mode the last message that i see before reaching to the desktop says "SMC is stuck and cannot recover". I can move my mouse around, but if i attempt to mouse click or keyboard press, the screen flashes black for 1 second and then returns to normal. The mouse clicks and keyboard presses aren't actually being registered (I can only see mouse move responses). If I do the clicks or presses a couple of times it causes a kernel panic.

I'm not exactly sure what went wrong there...

Approach 2:
According to the hardware compatibility list for 10.6.0 this motherboard should work using retail disc with the chocolate kernel. It says it used the Cxxx usb disc image for this motherboard . I downloaded the image, restored it onto a usb drive, but cannot get it to boot. Do you guys know which partition scheme I should be using for the usb drive (GUID, MBR?), and the partition format (MS-DOS, Mac OS journaled?).

Lastly, my configuration:
Asus M2n-e SLI
Evga 8800 GTS 320mb
AMD X2 4800

Thanks for your help guys!

Joe