Takenover83 Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 My first attempt. I am using a 10.4.3 (4.2B)install dvd. I boot up and get to the part where you have to select a partition to install to. It doesn't find my created HF+ partition. I tried two different harddrives. One of the harddrives (a 10G seagate) was formated totally with HF+. Using the disk utility, only shows my DVD drive. So maybe something to do with my chipset, but I didnt see anything negative for my SN96G5 on the wiki. These are your standard ATA harddrives. I tried disabling my onboard sata controller to see if it was stirring up a problem. My second attempt. I used DD to copy over the harddrive image to the partion. Yay it booted, but not completly. I get a little icon in the middle of the screen in the form of a no sign. I was able to boot this up via vmware after pointing it to the partition. Just not natively. Searching the forums didnt help much, so I thought I would atleast share my experience so maybe I can get some help I did see someone else had a SN95G5 and had some success, but they didnt post much details. So im guessing it is possible. Edit: Few more details added. Here is some details on my shuttle. Easier then me posting it all. http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN95G5%20V3.asp Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10737-no-success-yet-for-my-nforce3-shuttle-sn96g5/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takenover83 Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 Problem #1 fixed. Harddrive was not on Primary cable. After I swapped it, the harddrive was detected. Will report after install atempt. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10737-no-success-yet-for-my-nforce3-shuttle-sn96g5/#findComment-67524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takenover83 Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 Ok im up and running on 10.4.5 So far I dont have network or sound, and my ps/2 keyboard was not working. Good thing I had a USB keyboard laying around. Im such a noobie that I couldnt even figure out how to properly shutdown. Nic is Marvel Yukon Gigabit based. I want to see if I can get that fixed first. Off to search a bit. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10737-no-success-yet-for-my-nforce3-shuttle-sn96g5/#findComment-67893 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takenover83 Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 I fixed the keyboard problem by using a usb to ps/2 adapter. I guess you can't use a mix of usb and ps/2 with the keyboard and mouse, it's either ps/2 or usb, not both. I through in a spare nic to temporarly fix my nic problem. I think it's a realtek based 8139 card, it worked like a champ. To bad I can't get a widescreen resolution, as I have some nice black boarders on the side of 27inch hdtv lcd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10737-no-success-yet-for-my-nforce3-shuttle-sn96g5/#findComment-68500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
capran Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I fixed the keyboard problem by using a usb to ps/2 adapter. I guess you can't use a mix of usb and ps/2 with the keyboard and mouse, it's either ps/2 or usb, not both. I through in a spare nic to temporarly fix my nic problem. I think it's a realtek based 8139 card, it worked like a champ. To bad I can't get a widescreen resolution, as I have some nice black boarders on the side of 27inch hdtv lcd. I have a SN95G5, see my threads: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...691entry70691 http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=698&hl= http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=11201&hl= I want to get widescreen working too. I have a Dell 2005FPW. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10737-no-success-yet-for-my-nforce3-shuttle-sn96g5/#findComment-70694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0m3gA Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I have the Shuttle XPC SN95G5 and successfully installed 10.4.6 (Goatsecx). I could'nt figure out why nothing appeared in Disk Utility until I read how you put the HDD on the Primary IDE Cable, much obliged. Working: Onboard Sound and Lan, MX518 (mouse on ps2 adaptor), ps2 keyboard. Not Working: Acceleration I think. Windows and Mouse stutter while moving. Internet pages 'render' slow. Have to manually reboot. I have an ATI 9800Pro. Any idea how to fix this speed issue? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10737-no-success-yet-for-my-nforce3-shuttle-sn96g5/#findComment-124058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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