Thread: HELP! Asus M3N-HT, Phenom II 955, GTX 460 - Which distro works?!

PLEASE help!

I used to have a perfectly working Leopard iAtkos 7 10.5.8 running with my system (shown below), but since I've upgraded my graphics card from a 9800GTX+ to a GTX 460 I'm now in deep crap. Leopard no longer picks it up.

I've tried to install iAtkos 7 10.5.8 again I can't boot as the graphics card isn't recognised. The -x command works, but there aren't any drivers to install as the supported nvidia drivers are only for Snow Leopard.

"So just install Snow Leopard?" I hear you say. Well I've tried to install iAtkos S3 V2 10.6.3 but to no avail. Whatever way I try to install, I either get kernel panics at boot, or the PC shuts down on boot (verbos reads CPU halted). With iAtkos S3 V2 I've tried the Chameleon 2 RC5 boot loader, the AnVal bootloader, the 10.3.0 kernel, the 10.2.0 kernel, etc.

When booting, I always enter my correct FSB, Busratio and Maxmem values. The DVD was burned at 4x, my bios is set to AHCI and I'm installing to an internal sata drive - all completely normal stuff. Every distro installs great, but they never boot.

Can someone please help me? I could really do with having this system up and running soon - I do a lot of Final Cut Pro at work and would love to use it at home.

System:
Asus M3N-HT Deluxe
AMD Phenom II 955 BE
6Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2
EVGA GTX 460 SE

Thanks guys! Much appreciated

Did you try nawcom´s Mod CD as well?
If no, proceed here: http://www.osx86.net/desktops/9746-g...-10-6-amd.html

Thanks for the help! I'll give it a try tomorrow and I'll get back to you!

Originally Posted by geraintthomas

Thanks for the help! I'll give it a try tomorrow and I'll get back to you!

Hi, I had the same motherboard (M3N-HT deluxe) has you and i run iatkos v7 (10.5.7 updated to 10.5.8) and iatkos s3 v2 (10.6.3 updated to 10.6.8)...

I has only a dvd drive in IDE so i must boot leopard to instal the iatkos s3v2 image to my usb key for sucess to instal snow leo). My hardware :

-gigabyte 6600 gt (128mb)
-4GB RAM PC6400
-Phenom X4 9850
-SATA hard drive

I start the system with chameleon v2 RC5 build 6xx, without any flags !!! (just -v for look)
I suggest to you, test (just for the install) to boot with 4gb RAM max (setup in "auto" for RAM settings in bios)
and if the problem persist, install the system with your old graphic card for test !!


Good Luck