drbeaker Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 I've been searching through the forums and haven't seen my particular issue come up so I decided to go ahead and post. Hoping someone here has seen this one before! I have a 2007 iMac 3122 (Intel) that I installed the Corsair Force 80GB drive in. When I try to install Leopard or Snow Leopard - it doesn't see the drive. Disk utility sees the drive but when I try to partition it or erase it I receive the error "Cannot Allocate Memory". This happens with both version of OSX (Leopard and Snow Leopard). I was, however, able to successfully install Windows 7 - so I think the drive is OK (I think it is more than OK - it flies!!). The drive is currently running firmware 1.1. I've tried upgrade it to 2.0 but no such luck. The iMac just hangs. Maybe b/c it is Apple hardware? In any case, I appreciate your help if you know of anything else I can try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 I wouldn't work with the drive anymore until you get firmware 2.0 on it somehow. Try deleting all your partitions on the drive and then use a live windows environment to flash the new firmware or use another machine. After you perform the firmware update, secure erase it with parted magic before trying to install mac osx. If that doesn't work there is another underlying problem such as a bad BIOS option or something wrong with the mac install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbeaker Posted November 7, 2010 Author Share Posted November 7, 2010 Should I be able to run the firmware 2.0 upgrade when it is installed in my iMac? I was able to get OSX installed by installing it on an external USB drive first then cloning that install to the SSD. However, when I try to upgrade my install of Leopard to Snow Leopard I get an error with 33 minutes left... I'm going to get the error message and post it (I was too quick on the restart - it is running again). I guess if this fails again, I can always install SL on the USB drive and if successful I can clone that to the SSD. Sounds like I should have firmware 2.0 regardless. I'll see if I can find a machine that is running Win7 or Vista so I can get this upgraded. Thanks for the feedback/tips - keep it coming if I'm missing anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 The firmware upgrade tool hasn't been tested on OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbeaker Posted November 7, 2010 Author Share Posted November 7, 2010 Sorry, I wasn't clear.. I mean should I be able to install Windows 7 on my iMac and then successfully upgrade the firmware on my iMac hardware? I tried several times and when I clicked to start the firmware upgrade it locked the machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Yes you should be able to upgrade the firmware with windows 7, I have no idea about what hardware you're using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 9, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 9, 2010 I am sorry we have not done any testing with MAC's and this utility was provided by sand force and was only tested with X86 using Windows 7. But you are welcome to try it. But I would suggest using a system running Windows 7 with the drive you want to update as a second Drive not the Boot drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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