Fresh install OSX

[enny001]

Hi i am going a Fresh install OSX lion but problem that i am hawing is that my video card is PC radeon hd 5770 and my monitor is dell u2410 when i hold down option key to boot from my DVD installation my computer goes in to power sawing mode, i did disable power saving in osx and sleep but for some reason i it still goes in to power save mode so i am not able to boot in to my dvd or see those 3 icons to boot from. When i don't hold any key and i restart my osx boots normally without apple spinning logo. Is there any other way around this i need to install fresh copy of lion on my mac pro 4.1 2.66 tower.

Thanks guys

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Does the installer show up in System Preferences > Startup Disk*?

No Mac coming with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion has physical restore media included.

OS X: About OS X Recovery

If you want to make a bootable installation medium, you can follow these steps:

• Lion DiskMaker

• Create bootable installation medium for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
• Create bootable installation medium for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
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[xcodeSyn]

Is there any other way around this i need to install fresh copy of lion on my mac pro 4.1 2.66 tower.

As long as your Lion installer (DVD or USB drive) shows up in your System Preferences > Startup Disk as indicated in simsaladimbamba's post, you just need to select that icon and click the restart button and that should get the fresh install started.

 

[TheEasterBunny]

Hold the "C" key down on reboot, should make it boot to CD/DVD

 

[monkeybagel]

You should be able to hold Cmd+R while booting during the boot chime and boot to the recovery partition. This will allow you to wipe the Lion partition completely (but not the disk) and redownload and reinstall a fresh copy of 10.7.x.

It will appear as booting normally but you will notice it does not boot to the normal desktop.