Alex Robu Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Well. This is my second OSX86 Machine. My first one was and AMD Nforce 650i Hackintosh. Specs: 8600GT 256mb EVGA nForce 780i Intel Quad Core 2.66 Ghz Not going to post all the boring hardware, this is all you need to know - Successful install with iAtkos 10.5.2 - Video Card drivers working (8600 GT 256mb) - Sleep Working - Successful Dual Boot with Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit - Firewire Working - USB ports Working - Sound Working - Ethernet Not Working Installed OS X and used NVinject 256 driver for Graphics. Has anyone here gotten Ethernet Working? Please post with drivers!! And please share your experience with this mobo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chr1stian Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Well. This is my second OSX86 Machine. My first one was and AMD Nforce 650i Hackintosh. Specs: 8600GT 256mb EVGA nForce 780i Intel Quad Core 2.66 Ghz Not going to post all the boring hardware, this is all you need to know - Successful install with iAtkos 10.5.2 - Video Card drivers working (8600 GT 256mb) - Sleep Working - Successful Dual Boot with Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit - Firewire Working - USB ports Working - Sound Working - Ethernet Not Working Installed OS X and used NVinject 256 driver for Graphics. Has anyone here gotten Ethernet Working? Please post with drivers!! And please share your experience with this mobo. what distro and options did you use, because i cant seem to get past "mac os version: not yet set" i have a sata hdd and ide dvd drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexrobu Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 I used iAtkos version 2 I think, but I don't remmember what options I used cause I'm writing from school right now but I'll let you know once I get home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarpat2 Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 I just built my third machine with the same MB using iAtkos 10.5.2. My ethernet is listed under the network settings and is even showing a green light, but is not allowing me to connect to the internet. My last MB did the same thing and all that I needed to do was unplug the machine for several seconds, reboot and the internet worked fine. This one is not working, everything else is running great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexlyc Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 All 4 cores working under load? Try moving big file around your system and see if it freeze lol 780i isn't stable for osx... trust me I've been there... but hey if you are satisfy with loading into mac osx, I got nothing to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben10 Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Well I think this is a good topic to keep going. I am using this mobo with the XxX 10.5.5 PPF2 install dvd, and I have it working pretty well with some minor issues. The main issues for me are SOUND and INTERNET. I havent even tried to get the onboard nforce internet working, I am using a PCI card (netgear) with pciRTL8169 kext. The net works great for a while, then will die after an inconsistent amount of time/traffic. The sound issue is very similar, sound works great with ALCInject and alc888, but after listening to a few songs the sound starts to garble, then dies completely. These are really the only two issues I have, other than the random (but infrequent) spinning wheel of death freeze. I am trying a fresh install right now, and will update whether or not I can get these issues taken care of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemayo21 Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 to fix the internet google "LAN nforce osx86" the first link provides a kext that worked for me. i was running kalyway 10.5.2 with the 780i. so you would need to use another comp to get that kext i guess. im on windows again but ima try the new iatkos =S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte SS Burnout Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 My setup is: Core 2 Quad q9650 3.0ghz 780i Evga FTW mobo 4gb 1033mHz DDR2 Ram 1 terabyte hard drive As of now, 6600 geforce, but in a couple of days i will have a: PNY GTX 260 Nvidia 896mb card. So I have got 3 installations of mac to work: Kalyway 10.5.2. The only thing that i got to work with that was the audio. I tried to update two ways, the 10.5.6 combo update, which failed. and the individual updaters. Which failed. So I moved on to a new installer. I had to borrow my brothers ide dvd burner, because no installer would work with my sata drive, aside from the kalyway 10.5.2 installer. I installed iDeneb 10.5.5, and then tried the newer version 10.5.6, both which worked. On iDeneb 10.5.6 I got the audio, and video to work installing appleAzalia Audio and AC97Audio Kexts. The video i used the 256mb NVinject 0.2.1 kext. Originally I installed the AppleNForceATA kext, for the chipset, but when transfering large files, as said before, the os would become unstable and freeze. I then tried the AppleNForceATA Test kext, on the dvd installer options, and it fixed the problem of transfering large files. I installed it with the 9.2.0 speedstep kernel each time. I did get everything to work except my network lan drivers. I tried different versions of the nforce kext, but that didnt work. Also I took a card from my old computer, a linksys 100tx card, and am trying to get the tulip kext to work, with no luck. But so far it runs great without internet. It froze when i left the comp on and walked away, so Im guessing the sleep kext doesnt work. But I would just turn it off anyway when I get it to actually work. Anyone get the lan to work? I used the forcedeth driver, but it doesnt fully work.. It says that the internet is connected with a green dot, and has a self-assigned ip, but no internet. I changed the setting to the type of wire i use, and still no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xitrium Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 All 4 cores working under load?Try moving big file around your system and see if it freeze lol 780i isn't stable for osx... trust me I've been there... but hey if you are satisfy with loading into mac osx, I got nothing to say. Is it stable yet? I tried on iAtkos 7 I think and it still crashes under heavy load. Does anyone know why this is? It's obviously related to the 4 cores since it seems to work perfectly with cpus=1, but other than that I have no idea what to look for. EDIT: I realized I haven't tried the "Test" NforceATA kext so I will try to find that when I get home and see if that fixes it. Hopefully it's available without me having to download iDeneb 10.5.5, lol. Also I got networking working with a package a friend of mine gave to me... I'll figure out the name once I get home. I think it was just called "NForceLan" or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z28kid Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Im trying to get Mac installed on my system. Mobo: nforce 780i CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Chipset: nforce 780i SLI SPP Graphics: 2x Geforce 8800Gt in SLI mode I would like some help if at all possible with which selections of drivers to use so I can get a basic install. Any help will do. Thanks p.s. I have a bunch of different os versions. kalyway 10.5, xxxipc 10.5.6, and idenb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Im trying to get Mac installed on my system. Mobo: nforce 780i CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Chipset: nforce 780i SLI SPP Graphics: 2x Geforce 8800Gt in SLI mode I would like some help if at all possible with which selections of drivers to use so I can get a basic install. Any help will do. Thanks p.s. I have a bunch of different os versions. kalyway 10.5, xxxipc 10.5.6, and idenb Start by temporarily removing one of the 8800GT's........then when installing OS X do not install a video, network and audio driver from the distro Installer's Customize menu.......see my Series 7 nForce topic and my blog guide for iPC 10.5.6...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z28kid Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Start by temporarily removing one of the 8800GT's........then when installing OS X do not install a video, network and audio driver from the distro Installer's Customize menu.......see my Series 7 nForce topic and my blog guide for iPC 10.5.6...... Hi... I was so hoping you were going to reply as I had lost the thread that you started with all of that information. I am just being lazy about temporarily removing on of the cards. lol. I dont know how to add my own custom drivers if thats what your first link entails. I need to make sure I am understanding you correctly. When I go through you dont want me to select the nvidia 8800gt driver? If i were to not select anything will my displays still work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haroot Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Im trying to get Mac installed on my system. Mobo: nforce 780i CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Chipset: nforce 780i SLI SPP Graphics: 2x Geforce 8800Gt in SLI mode I would like some help if at all possible with which selections of drivers to use so I can get a basic install. Any help will do. Thanks p.s. I have a bunch of different os versions. kalyway 10.5, xxxipc 10.5.6, and idenb Hey buddy, i have good news for you Leo 10.5.8 vanilla kernel has native support for 780i and so does snow leopard, all u need to fakesmc, nullcpupowermanagement, new version of nForceLan.kext which works stable PlatformUUID if u wanna be clean, and AppleNForceATA i use the one by Arya, everything is stable as long as u don't run a sata dvd apparently lol, large file transfers work fine, im transfering a 26gb dmg from an ntfs partition no problem AS FOR TWO CARDS EASY EFI STUDIO!!!!, HERE IS AN EFI STRING THAT'LL WORK FOR UR SETUP, ONLY UR CARD IN SLOT ONE WILL WORK, THE SECOND CARD WILLS HOW UP AS DISPLAY e404000001000000020000006c0200000d00000002010c00d041030a010000000101060000030101 060000000101060000020101060000007fff04001e00000072006f006d002d0072006500760069007 30069006f006e0000002e0000006e5669646961204765466f7263652038383030204754204f70656e 474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d22000000400030002c006400650076006900630065005f00740 079007000650000000b000000646973706c6179100000004e00560043004100500000001800000004 000000000003000c00000000000007000000000e0000006e0061006d00650000000b0000006469737 06c617914000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d 41100000006d006f00640065006c0000001a0000006e5669646961204765466f72636520383830302 047540e0000004e00560050004d000000200000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000014000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004e5644412c4469737 06c61792d4220000000400031002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000 004e5644412c4e564d6163220000005600520041004d002c0074006f00740061006c00730069007a0 065000000080000000000002020000000400030002c0063006f006d00700061007400690062006c00 650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616322000000400031002c006400650076006900630065005 f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c61791c0000006400650076006900630065005f00 740079007000650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e746c0200000d00000002010c00d041030 a010000000101060000030101060000000101060000000101060000007fff04001e00000072006f00 6d002d007200650076006900730069006f006e0000002e0000006e5669646961204765466f7263652 038383030204754204f70656e474c20456e67696e65205b4546495d22000000400030002c00640065 0076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c6179100000004e0056004 3004100500000001800000004000000000003000c00000000000007000000000e0000006e0061006d 00650000000b000000646973706c617914000000400030002c006e0061006d0065000000120000004 e5644412c446973706c61792d41100000006d006f00640065006c0000001a0000006e566964696120 4765466f72636520383830302047540e0000004e00560050004d00000020000000010000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000014000000400031002c006e0061006d0065000000 120000004e5644412c446973706c61792d4220000000400031002c0063006f006d007000610074006 90062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d6163220000005600520041004d002c0074006f 00740061006c00730069007a0065000000080000000000002020000000400030002c0063006f006d0 0700061007400690062006c00650000000e0000004e5644412c4e564d616322000000400031002c00 6400650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000b000000646973706c61791c000000640 0650076006900630065005f00740079007000650000000f0000004e5644412c506172656e74 HERE IS THE PLIST <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key> <dict> <key>@0,compatible</key> <string>NVDA,NVMac</string> <key>@0,device_type</key> <string>display</string> <key>@0,name</key> <string>NVDA,Display-A</string> <key>@1,compatible</key> <string>NVDA,NVMac</string> <key>@1,device_type</key> <string>display</string> <key>@1,name</key> <string>NVDA,Display-B</string> <key>NVCAP</key> <data> BAAAAAAAAwAMAAAAAAAABwAAAAA= </data> <key>NVPM</key> <data> AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA== </data> <key>VRAM,totalsize</key> <string>0x20000000</string> <key>device_type</key> <string>NVDA,Parent</string> <key>model</key> <string>nVidia GeForce 8800 GT</string> <key>name</key> <string>display</string> <key>rom-revision</key> <string>nVidia GeForce 8800 GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string> </dict> <key>PciRoot(0x1)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key> <dict> <key>@0,compatible</key> <string>NVDA,NVMac</string> <key>@0,device_type</key> <string>display</string> <key>@0,name</key> <string>NVDA,Display-A</string> <key>@1,compatible</key> <string>NVDA,NVMac</string> <key>@1,device_type</key> <string>display</string> <key>@1,name</key> <string>NVDA,Display-B</string> <key>NVCAP</key> <data> BAAAAAAAAwAMAAAAAAAABwAAAAA= </data> <key>NVPM</key> <data> AQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA== </data> <key>VRAM,totalsize</key> <string>0x20000000</string> <key>device_type</key> <string>NVDA,Parent</string> <key>model</key> <string>nVidia GeForce 8800 GT</string> <key>name</key> <string>display</string> <key>rom-revision</key> <string>nVidia GeForce 8800 GT OpenGL Engine [EFI]</string> </dict> </dict> </plist> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Bellowe Posted October 27, 2010 Share Posted October 27, 2010 So, this is working? How do you get snow leopard on it? What installation method? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafterman Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Well I have my system running fine with an Evga 780i, C2Q9450, Single ata drive(Slave), 5GB Ram, GTX470, DVD RW Drive, on board ethernet and sound all working with 10.6.8. I used tonymacs guide using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] with 10.6.3 install. When installed run [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and check [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url](non DSDT). I also installed a kext AppleNforceATA.kext(see kexts.com). I needed VooDooHDA for sound. To get the Ethernet working load nForceLan.kext(or the nforcelan.pkg). I then immediately ran the 10.6.8 combo update without issue and before re-boot install the latest Nvidia drivers and add the efi string for my GTX470 to the boot plist. You may have to run [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and re tick [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] and usb rollback(if usb not working). BTW the AppleNforceATA kext I'm using is the one from Domenico 'MeDevil' Colella. 2007, x64 rebuild by WIND. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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