tkw722 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 I've got a question for all you fellow OSx86 lovers. Have any of you had luck with an MSI motherboard? I've forgotten which specific model mine is. But I caught a glance on one topic that someone was having trouble with their MSI. Has anyone here had success with it, so I still have some hope? -Thanks for any help! -tkw722 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mofo-X Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Greetings, I currently have an MSI-Neo2 925x Platinum Edition working great. Regards, {censored}-x Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-64163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamezes Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 I have an MSI MS-6579 and OSX works on it. The only problem is that OSX can't reboot or go to sleep. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-64412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuni Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Cheerz, gotta MSI 865PE Neo2-V + OSX 10.4.3 working greeeeeat Switching from Windows soon.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-64617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aPpLeFrEaKpEePs Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 I hav installed OSx86 10.4.1 successfully on the following MSI mobos.. MSI RS480M2-IL (Ati x200) MSI K8N Neo4(Nforce 4) MSI K8N Neo Platinum(Nforce 4 SLi) Works great.. As far as i can see, no specific prob. with MSI as such.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-67323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fOZf8 Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 I have 10.4.3 running on a 915GM-FR (7033 I think?). Everything funtions well except the via raid ide channel isn't supported, and it won't fully restart(but it shutsdown fine). Really though, it's not the board manufacturer that matters, it's the chipsets and integrated peripherals that make the difference Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-67340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
romey-rome Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 945g Neo2-F All is well except reboot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-67493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon1971 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 MSI 915G-Combo board here and everything works great (even reboot). I haven't bothered to test sleep though. The only reason I'm using the USB sound card is that my board's sound chip is flakey and gives random static once in a while, which was annoying, otherwise it would be working as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-67562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinityplusone Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Hello. Last night I installed 10.4.3 and although it works, neither of my two onboard NICs were detected, and my sound doesn't work, and my video is stuck at 1024x768@60. But I was just happy that it booted. Now if only I could get the NIC working... that would be sweet. MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (NForce 4 SLi) - NIC1 = Marvel Yukon Gigabit, NIC2 = NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller, Onboard Sound = SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit Athlon64 3500+ (Newcastle) eVGA 7800GT 2GB of Corsair TwinX RAM Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-67626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Got a MSI 865PE Neo2, everything works - audio, network, usb, firewire, ata, sata. Happy as a clam with this board and my prescott now... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-67739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 MSI 945GM-FR... no sound, or it's coming out LINE OUT without any ability to perform volume control (I've been too lazy to play around with the output plugs). Ethernet ok, QE/CI are ok except in 10.4.5 - you need the AppleIntelFramebuffer.kext or some file by a similar name restored from the 10.4.4 extensions backup Maxxuss recommends. USB no problem... seems I needed to turn off SATA altogether, disable any RAID, and dedicate myself to use the primary IDE channel only. Using the other IDE channel from the motherboard either made my DVD-RW disappear or put it on like the 3rd IDE, which OS X tends to not understand exists. Definitely something unclear as to how you configure this for two IDE busses, primary and secondary, and no SATA. Seems SATA has to be taking the IDE secondary controller address and any additional IDE cable always has to be the tertiary. OS X has been not completely reliable either - erasing it off my system after performing these copies of data onto FAT32 partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-67742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Check out the Audio Midi Setup utility in /Application/Utilities to change sound preferences with more control than System Prefs. It'll let you change the output from line out to headphones or whatever else you audio system supports... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-67769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CuriousMac Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 I have 10.4.3 running on a 915GM-FR (7033 I think?). Everything funtions well except the via raid ide channel isn't supported, and it won't fully restart(but it shutsdown fine). Really though, it's not the board manufacturer that matters, it's the chipsets and integrated peripherals that make the difference Exactly. I have this same board, same problems. The IDE RAID (secondary IDE connector/ Tritary IDE in firmware) does not work because it is the VIA 6410 which there are no drivers for. The SATA by default falls in as the secondary IDE, and that works just fine. I cloned the 120GB IDE thats Master on the 80 pin IDE to a 250GB SATA drive using CCC and set the boot priority to IDE Channel 2 first, making the SATA1 be first to boot, the computer still booted IDE0. Either because the CCC clone was not blessed or the SATA channel was not recognized by the boot loader. I can not get the audio to work onboard this one, however. You mention 'everything' works. I will concur, the shut down works fine, the restart does not. I'm figuring the system call to the hardware is just not the same. The sleep function however does work for me now, with 10.4.5- did not with 10.4.3. It would wake with Finder in a non-usable state. I added some generic packaged PCI FireWire/USB 2.0 combo card with a 3.5" floppy bay module so that I have Firewire and USB in a floppy bay, thus being front mounted. Works great out of the box. No kext tweaking needed. This motherboard booted a non-patched 10.4.1 DTK DVD which caught me by surprise. It didn't make it to Finder, but got past the high level boot process, past where the login box would have shown. I put in a PCI audio card and the audio goes garbled after 30-40 seconds, kinda like how the Audio HiJack demo goes bad on purpose. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-68350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coobox Mac Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 MSI RS480M2-IL OS X 10.4.5 DVD Prepatched with AMD Enabler taked from Piratebay. HDD IS TOO SLOW SB400 chipset driver not efficent Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-99262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 I Have an MSi Mobo, it works great, but the Hard Disk is still a bit slow , my Via kext doesnt seem to be working well. The onbard Lan + Onboard VGA are working fine though It also Sleeps and restarts fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-99285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchie Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 MSI915GLM-V I'm experience restart problem, beside that everything works great.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-99333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acar Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 MSI neo4 platinum (no sli) Athlon 3000+ ATI Sapphire x800gt 256mb R423 PCI-E (coudn't set refresh rate, but denver detect vesa 3.. can somebody help?) all other works good 2Ritchie restarts fails too... it's "normal" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-99467 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockett Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Got a MSI 865PE Neo2, everything works - audio, network, usb, firewire, ata, sata. Happy as a clam with this board and my prescott now... Same here - got a bit of mouse tearing with my Radeon 9600 Pro. But Mousepose seems to have cleared it up. I'm one happy camper! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10241-micro-star-international-motherboards/#findComment-132883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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