After wrestling with dongrading my bios, I can now install osx86 and use it except for installing natit uni. as soon as i get to the gui my screen turns off, i've connected an external monitor and that turnes off too, it seems judging by the hd activity that it is still running but with no picture. I've tried 10.4.6, 8 & 9 with the same results. if i run it with the command "Graphics Mode"="1024X768X32" it freezes at the same point with a flashing screen.
There is probably a good reason for this, but i am able to boot fine after this problem if i boot with the dvd and run rd=disk0s3 but i'm still left with no video acceleration.

also i've tried every alc driver i can find but still no sound.

have people stopped developing the drivers. it seems that all the drivers i can find were made over a year ago.

Notebook x72IA
T5200 Core Duo
2gb ram
160gb hd
945 chipset
ati mobility x1600


Name ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71C5&SUBSYS_235E1584&REV_00\4&151F1284&0&0008
Adapter Type ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (0x71C5), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
Adapter RAM 256.00 MB (268,435,456 bytes)
Installed Drivers atiumdag.dll,atiumdva.dat,atitmmxx.dll
Driver Version 6.0.5600.16384
INF File oem14.inf (ati2mtag_M56 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1440 x 900 x 59 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000D000-0x0000DFFF
Memory Address 0xFE9F0000-0xFE9FFFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 16
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys (7.1.1.569, 2.20 MB (2,307,584 bytes), 18/07/2007 23:08)

Name Realtek High Definition Audio
Manufacturer Realtek
Status OK
PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0883&SUBSYS_1584020D&REV_1000\4&118FAE1&0&0101
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\rtkvhda.sys (6.0.1.5331, 1.58 MB (1,652,968 bytes), 11/09/2007 10:38)