HP Z600 Dual Xeon Workstation

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I have seen some forum posts about this machine and i just picked one up from MicroCenter for $399, and i figured i would put my installation issues/diary here for others to follow and perhaps help.

 

So far what i have done..

 

Bought a 4 port SATA Card (Marvell Based)

Disconnected all the SATA Drives (1 1TB HDD, 1 DVDRW).

 

The system came with an ATI FirePro V3800, and i had no success in playing with it, so i saw on the "Good" list an EVGA GeForce 650, so i picked one up and I can already tell in the install the resolutions are right..

 

(Im writing this after my 4th install, just catching up).

 

Basically up to this point i have not had to take out any Ram (6GB), I have 32 more GB in waiting, and i have not had to disable any cores on either Xeon.

 

I downloaded Mavericks from the apple store on my macbook, created the bootable USB, and Installed it thru that [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] program.  I get to a desktop after install/setup, and thats where its a guessing game for me.  I have read of these "kexts" which I'm guessing are drivers etc like in windows, and that [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] program to install them, but I am unsure of which i need.  USB Seems to be working fine in this safe mode.. So is networking.  I am unsure of sound as of yet.

 

There is that [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] program that i loaded, but I'm kinda unsure at what I'm looking at, and this is the 4th errr 5th attempt at this (first with the geforce card), so i must be selecting something wrong, or leaving something out.

 

Ill update in a bit, perhaps someone who has another z600 can chime in.

 

TIA.

 

 

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Well now I'm getting a Kernel panic on first reboot.. I used "beast" program to do some supposed Easy setup but now the Kernel panic is sating .com.apple.driver.appleintelCPUPowerManagement something or other.. Whoops.. can't get into safe mode either.. Looks like install #6 comin up.