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00010 04-29-2010 03:20 PM

nForce 430 Help
 
My motherboard is a MCP61PM-GM ( No idea who makes this)

It has a AMD Athlon 2 x 2 processor.

It has a nForce 430 chipset.

So basically I have tried the Empire EFI method, and it tries to boot, and it either freezes a little ways after detecting the chipset, I have also tried to boot from a USB DVD-ROM and get the " Waiting for root device" error.


I know the video on this board isn't compatible, I am gonna buy a PCI-E card to fix this problem.

Also I am looking for a card thats PCI-E that is fully working on Snow Leopard in the 1GB RAM + range any suggestions would be great.

00010

Imkantus 05-06-2010 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 00010 (Post 47851)
It has a nForce 430 chipset.

So basically I have tried the Empire EFI method, and it tries to boot, and it either freezes a little ways after detecting the chipset, I have also tried to boot from a USB DVD-ROM and get the " Waiting for root device" error.

My Mainboard has the same chipset & using this (prior) AMD release of EmpireEFI worked just fine for me:
http://www.mediafire.com/?m5wzzwyfg4m

Quote:

Originally Posted by 00010 (Post 47851)
I know the video on this board isn't compatible, I am gonna buy a PCI-E card to fix this problem.

Also I am looking for a card thats PCI-E that is fully working on Snow Leopard in the 1GB RAM + range any suggestions would be great.

I love my ATI. :) I think the HD4670 is a good choice for the mid-price sector, you just need to reinstall 10.6.2 Framebuffer kexts after 10.6.3 Update - the only deficit of the 46X0 cards is that you can just connect one display - either through VGA or DVI - no dual monitoring possible.

Of course a GeForce 9 (or one of it's silly rebrands :p) is easier to set up, as they tend to work just using GraphicsEnabler...