tonymacx86 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Hey all- The new P55 Core i5/i7 motherboards are now working with Retail Snow Leopard Installation! A group of us have been experimenting since September, and have posted a lot of useful information on this thread in the Buying Thoughts, Reviews, and Recommendations forum: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=176155 If you're having issues installing, there are a few basic tricks that you need to do to get the system going on these boards. I wrote up a few guides specifically for P55 boards complete with files. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbourizk Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Hey all- The new P55 Core i5/i7 motherboards are now working with Retail Snow Leopard Installation! A group of us have been experimenting since September, and have posted a lot of useful information on this thread in the Buying Thoughts, Reviews, and Recommendations forum: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=176155 If you're having issues installing, there are a few basic tricks that you need to do to get the system going on these boards. I wrote up a few guides specifically for P55 boards complete with files. Good luck! thanks for the info was looking at getting a new p55 set up but couldnt really find much info or guides for that matter maybe i didn't look hard enough lol. currently have a Ex58-Ud4P working well, but as i'm going to update my second comp was thinking about the P55 chipset...or maybe i should stick with X58? thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elventanis Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Tony, I am currently running i7 860 on a Gigabyte UD4P board, and an nvidia gts 250 video card. Are you saying that I should now be able to install the OS X onto that machine if I follow your guide? Also, will I be able to dual boot with Windows 7? I thought I had to wait for OS X 10.6.2 before it would work for the P55 boards, it looks like you have this working without that and then updating with the combo updater. Do you have any plans to simplifying the steps similar to Conti's MyHack Installer? Thanks in advance Hey all- The new P55 Core i5/i7 motherboards are now working with Retail Snow Leopard Installation! A group of us have been experimenting since September, and have posted a lot of useful information on this thread in the Buying Thoughts, Reviews, and Recommendations forum: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=176155 If you're having issues installing, there are a few basic tricks that you need to do to get the system going on these boards. I wrote up a few guides specifically for P55 boards complete with files. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex HQuest Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 What about directions for Snow Leo retail install on P55/Core i5 from scratch, where we have no access to any other OSX install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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