Hi everyone,

This is my first post, greetings to everyone around here.

I did a couple of searches here and on google, but couldn't find any info about the MB in the topic title.

I'm planning on building an osx system mainly for audio applications, and found this conroe-enabled board, it has (from Asus's site):

- Intel 945G chipset
- Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 CPU
- Intel® Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo Ready
- Dual-Core CPU Support
- Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Graphics
- Dual channel DDR2 (667)
- IEEE 1394a

link: http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmen...2=11&l3=194

It's all looking really compatible, I'm only worried about the VIA 6308 firewire solution - I'd use an external fw audio device.
The lan nic is some Attansic chip, that may not work, but I could throw in a pci card.

Anyone with some experience with this board?
Thanks much.

I have the board previous to this model that doesn't have the Dual-Core support or the Firewire, but the audio chipset works and a firewire add-on card does work. So if you get the board, you aren't stuck really. I have heard a few people loving that new board, but I can only comment on the older model.

I've got the non-1394 version rev 2.0 with a Firewire add-in card. It uses the same VIA chip that the board you liked to does, and I'm running a ProSonus Firebox off of it without any problems. Go for it.

A board previous to this model that doesn't have the Dual-Core support or the Firewire: which mobo was this?

I guess it's the P5LD2-VM, in his signature.




Very nice, thank you!



That sounds pretty good. Do you know whether the Attansic NIC works under OSX? Thanks for your time.

Did anyone ever find out if the NIC works on this board for OSX? and/or have further first-hand feedback?

I am trying to built a system based on this board...I have about 20 hours in to it thus far and can't get it to boot after install. Here's what I have:

Asus P5l-VM 1394
Core 2 Duo 6400
Seagate 320 Gb Drive
Pioneer 110D
2x1Gb SuperTalent PC6400 DDR2 800 (4-4-3-8)
Saphire X1600 Pro 512Mb

I have nearly the same hardware (albeit MB and CPU) in two other machines, which work flawlessly.

Here's where I get hung up -- install goes brilliantly smoooth, and very! fast. Then, on the reboot right after the install, I get the screen that shows the 10 million flahsing lines of text (stuff loading after install), the screen goes blank, and then computer reboots.

Here's what I've tried:

-removed the video card and used the built in 950 intel (same thing).

-fiddled with the bios to set everything for the slowest/safest setting (same thing).

-swapped out memory (same thing).

-swapped out hard drive (same thing).

++The only thing I haven't yet tried is disabling the 1394 and Ethernet Lan in the BIOS -- I am trying this now and will post results.

++If the above doesnt' work, I will try making a disk image from one of my other working 945G machines, and put the image onto the hard disk that will go in to this new machine.

I will post my results after I try the "++" above.

----------------
Question:
----------------

Has ANYONE gotten this board to work? The reason why I went with this one is three-fold:

Core 2 Duo support
1394 Firewire
Built in 950 graphics controller.

My other option was the ASrock 945G DVI, but it has no firewire...I need firewire, and if I buy an external card, the external cards don't have the same motherboard-style connectors on them to connect to the Firewire port on the Case...unless there is another wayt to connect an add-in Firewire card to one of those built in ports on a case?


Thoughts? Any input would be appreciated.

/mdg

The Attansic NIC is not going to work with OS86.

The P5L-VM 1394 works fine except for the attansic ethernet flake, so I got a USB wireless card to go with it. More importantly to the OP, firewire works out of the box. See sig:

I get the system to do install (10.4.6) no problem but then on reboot, and thereafter, it starts loading and then reboots after 5 seconds.

Someone said to try 10.4.7 JaS install disk. Is that what you used?

Attansic seems to be looking for a software developer who knows something about writing linux drivers. Maybe they'll release a linux driver sometime later this year. But would that driver help running OSX86?

http://www.attansic.com/english/job/index.html

Software Engineer
* familiar with C/C++, understand MASM assembler
* experience with windows or Linux driver programming, preferably experience with network driver
* familiar with STP/RSTP/SNMP switch protocols is a plus
* Team player, quick learning, self － motivated and hardworking
* bachelor degree or above

See this thread and help support for Attansic L1 NIC...very close
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...amp;hl=attansic