Jezek Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Hey I'm goign to build my first computer. I just wanted to make sure all these parts were compatible with osx86. I can easily change something it improves the performance. Intel Pentium 4 640 Box CPU & ECS RS400-A Motherboard http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4699798G Seagate 400GB Ultra ATA/100 8MB Buffer ST3400832A-RK - Retail Hard Drive Kit. : http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4303145 2GB DDR2 PC4200 (533MHz), 128M x 64 Non-ECC 4-4-4 Unbuffered Kit (2x1GB) 240-Pin, Kingston ValueRam KVR533D2K2/2GR : http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4654178 LITE-ON Black Dvd Burner w/ Lightscribe http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16827106015 And well I haven't decided on the video card, but so far is that all compatible. And if anyone has suggestions on a video card that would be great. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexaltair2 Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Nobody will click-and-check every link you posted here. At least write in short what parts you want. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezek Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 ok my bad. i updated the posts with the information. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon1971 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Personally, I'd replace the burner with a Pioneer DVR-110D, which would be 100% supported in 10.4.4 and higher. Lightscribe isn't worth having a partially supported drive in my opinion. You'd have to use PatchBurn to get your drive working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezek Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 actually I just recieved the dvd drive from newegg today. i can still return it, but i wouldn't really want to. so what is this PatchBurn thing? And yah, my bad, i should have said that in the first post, that I already purchased it. Edit 2: The mobo and ram are good? And what about the videocard, anyone have any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Should be OK. Apple is a snake-in-the-grass with hardware sensitivity. It's by design; each release they've made the software more and more assume the CPU, resources, etc., etc., are ONLY that that are supposed to be found inside an iMac Core Duo, or the Mini Core Solo or Core Duo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67697 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezek Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 is that why less components are listed in the 10.4.5 HCL? or it just because people haven't added them yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Both, assuredly. There are going to be several broken things on 10.4.5 needing the driver from 10.4.4, 10.4.3, or Darwin 8.01. Nothing new broke for me on 10.4.5, well actually the GMA900 stopped having display resolution choices - turns out I needed to restore the old 10.4.4 AppleIntelFramebuffer.kext or something similar to that name. It didn't FIX anything with my system - but I think the graphics performance was nicer once I repaired the framebuffer kext. I had iLife '06 iDVD 6.01 just unexplainedly quit on me - not crash. Crashes give an option to restart the app or report the error to Apple. This just plain old quit without asking me if I wanted to save. I have a suspicion TPM checks exist in the Intel version of Apple software, some of them wait a while before giving you the screw-over. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezek Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 so anything from the 10.4.3 list should be ok if I have 10.4.5. i will just have to use the old drivers? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Yup. There are some 10.4.5 drivers that work together as a set. It'll be a trial and error process if the 10.4.3 driver for whatever broke in 10.4.5 don't do the trick. Maxxuss has the general list (2) of kernel extensions you need to restore back from 10.4.4. There's a 10.4.4 AppleIntelFramebuffer.kext file (something like that) needing replacement from the pre-10.4.5 patch (backup directory maxxuss suggests) that re-enables screen resolution with various graphics chipsets. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezek Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 do you think I should just try to install it with these parts then if it doesnt work I can return them. I mean they're not in the incompatible list. So it probably just means no one has tried running it with these parts. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Newegg is good that way, especially if you're buying a replacement part from them instead of going for a full refund... actually they take 15% off either way I think except under certain circumstances. The Wiki will remain out of date if you don't add a pass/fail info to the appropriate list. I could only do my mom's gateway and add that my success with 945GM-FR wasn't identical to that stated previously. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10722-compatible-parts/#findComment-67752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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