Jumped on the OSX86 bandwagon.. and after getting it semi working on a P5P800SE..
Bought a cheap 945 based board.. (couldn't get hold of the Asrock board easily)..

the Foxconn 945GZ7MC
mATX, 2 x PCI, 1x PCIEx16 and 1x PCIex1, ATC861? Audio, Realteak Lan... 800FSB only, C2D compatible (due to 945GZ and poor overclocking features.)

Everything appears to work out of the box. except for the Audio, which needed the manual AppleAzalia fix... (now working sound out of mic) (yet to try LAN) although it is detected properly.. and lots ready to go...

On the negative side.. A new Netgear WG311T and an Orignal NEtgear WG311 (atheros chipsets) have both failed to work.... depties trying all the guides..

NB Foxconn does make a 1066FSB version of this board. (945G7MC). it could be a very cheap way into a OSX86 -C2D box...

Does the SATA works in the Foxconn 945GZ7MC??? And did you test the network finally?

Thanks

due to this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...&hl=RTL8110
and that http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...7&hl=ALC861
both should run properly...
nevertheless i would be glad about your experiences since i'm planning to buy this board too.

For the NetGear WG311T I had to install the IO80211.kext from 10.4.6 to make it work. Search the forums for it and replace the 10.4.8 kext with it. Worked like a champ after that.

what bios settings do you use?
I always get an ACPI kernel panic whatever I adjust in the ACPI menue of the bios.
tried different kernel versions?
any idea, how to fix it?
thanks

So I bought the Foxconn 945G7MC-KS2HV LGA 775 Intel 945G motherboard along with:
WD 160GB SATA Hard Drive
Intel Celeron D 331 Prescott 2.66GHz
Kingston 1GB DDR2 667
And put this together with some pieces I had floating around: a ide LG DVD-RW drive and a ide LiteOn DVD-Rom, a PS/2 keyboard, sony floppy, usb optical mouse (PS/2 mouse DID NOT work with OSx86), old HP 14" monitor, all this in a cheap case with 350W PSU. Maybe in the future would like to add core 2 duo or extreme and a better graphic card.

My idea was to make this sytem quad-booting Vista, XP, Ubuntu Linux and OSx86 and more or less it worked.
First partitioned with GParted LiveCD:
10gb xp ntfs primary
20gb vista ntfs primary
15gb fat32 osx primary
then one extended with:
10 gb ext3 linux
1gb swap
the rest fat32 for shared

The steps I followed:
1.Install XP first
2.Install OSx86 (normal steps, format partiton to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with Utilities > Disk Utility, select sse3 patches for intel)
3.In OS X edit com.apple.Boot.plist
In terminal:
sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
add:
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>8</string>
<key>Quiet Boot</key>
<string>Yes</string>
save
4.Install Ubuntu Linux BUT put grub in linux partiton not in mbr
5.Then with gparted cd put boot flag on vista partition
6.Install Vista (this overwrite mbr with vista bootloader)
7.Install EasyBCD in Vista and add entries for XP, Linux using grub, and OSx86 selecting generic hardware. For all leave c:/ as partition
9.Copy ntldr, ntdetect and boot.ini from xp partition to vista partition (necessary to boot xp)
10.With this it boots into Vista Bootloader with four options:
-Microsoft Windows Vista (boots Vista)
-Microsoft Windows XP (boots XP)
-Mac OS X (goes to Darwin Bootloader when can select OSX partition to boot)(This shows the 5 partitions to select which boot, can go to xp and linux, if select the one of vista it returns to vista bootloader) ***Unfortunately darwin doesn't mark osx as default partition so must select it. Tried editing
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
adding
<key>Kernal Flags</key>
<string>rd=disk0s3</string>
but it doesn't work. Any suggestions???
-Ubuntu Linux (goes to Grub when can select Linux options to boot)

And here is where I am now. Still to test the network (need to buy an ethernet cable extension) but OSX seemed to recognize the card, and the audio which it did not recognize so will try patching tomorrow.

****
Audio working with AppleAzaliaAudio.kext.zip edited with (stereo sound only, NO input):
Realtek High Definition Audio
Vendor = "10EC"
Device = "0861"

Microsoft UAA Bus Driver For High Definition Audio
Vendor = "8086"
Device = "27D8"

Network working pefectly with RealtekR1000_1.04.zip (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=29436&hl=RTL8110)




Although I got the other version of the MB, the Foxconn 945G7MC-KS2HV, i must say the bios setting are basically factory settings except for booting order. I am going to check the ACPI menu in particular and post the settings.

could you send me your edited azalia kext?
I have a Asus F3Jc laptop with Realtek ALC660/861 soundchip... but no sound.

my e-mail is: maildoduro at gmail.com

thanks