Thread: Install Retal Snow Leopard on AMD Phenom II and MSI 790FX-GD70 (790FX-SB750 Chipset)

Hello to all! I m very glad to be here!

I am trying to install Snow Leopard on an AMD Phenom II machine with 790FX-SB750 chipset motherboard (MSI 790FX-GD70). I used this tutorial:

Install Snow Leopard on AMD PC, Laptop

I followed every step of this tutorial exactly exept the DSDT patch which failed. When i tryed to boot, i got the apple logo screen and the message that i must restart my system with the power button. After that, I put some kexts i found (i deleted the IOATAFamily.kext) and now i am getting a Kernel Panic: Unable to find driver for platform: "ACPI". I also tryed to boot with the following kernel flags but with kernel panics: -x32 -f -x -v and cpus=1 -f -x -v. What i must do, please help! I am a huge fan of Apple and i want to run Snow Leopard on my system. Thank you very much in advance!

My system specs:

AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition
MSI 790FX-GD70
8GB Super Talent DDR3 1600MHz
2TB Western Digital Caviar Green SATA II
ATI Radeon HD 4350
ASUS Xonar D2X
LG DVD-RW SATA II

Why you dont try the EmpireEFI? Burn a EmpireEFI dvd and buy a real mac dvd. (Snow Leopard retail). Or download en burn it.

With Empire EFI 1085 R2, i get the message No DSDT found and press a button. When i press it i am getting a kernel panic.

You use the Phenom Version?

Yes.

Maybe it's missing some kexts related with the ACPI or a configuration to BIOS?

It worked!!! Thank you very much imick!!!

I used the Empire EFI 1.085 for AMD and the following kernel flags: -force64 busratio=20.

I have a little problem. I istalled this graphic driver for my ATI Radeon HD 4650: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=202013 The max resolution i am getting is 1400x1050 with the flag "Graphics Mode"="1920x1080x32". I want to make it 1920x1080. How it can be done? Thank you very much once again!!

Try booting with GraphicsEnabler=yes. When that dont works. try this: netkas.org Drivers for Radeons 46×0/45×0/43×0

The first way failed. For the second way, how can i add the device id into the kexts? Could you please explain it? I tried to add it, but i got kernel panic. Thank you very much once again!

I inserted the device and vendor id, i installed the kexts, but it recognise my card as an HD 4890 with 256MB (mine is an HD 4650 with 1024MB VGA/DMI/HDMI) and i can't change the resolution. What i am doing wrong? Thanks once again!!