splintah Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 does anybody know if that thing works properly with hackintosh it looks REALLY good and also seems to support a bit of overclocking http://de.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=1&...amp;modelmenu=2 http://geizhals.at/a327431.html http://geizhals.at/a327433.html g31 chipset 1600 mhz bus (official with oc) 300 watt powersupply firewire you can see a lot more in the manual : http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/Barebone/...g31a_manual.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiloo Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Hey Splintah, I bought one of these nice barebones last month. My plan was to install Tiger on it but I tried for two weeks without success ... It always get stuck during the boot process. The issue seems to be related to the ACPI tables which are not well implemented in asus bios. I tried a lot of different config with Kaly and Leo4All release 10.5.2 (exchange SATA devices with PATA, add PATA DVD, remove 2gb of RAM, tweak bios, command line ...) My config : Asus t3-P5G31 (release 1) + C2D 8200 + 4 GB RAM + 500 GB Sata HD + sata DVD I will try asap Leo 10.5.3. Hopefully I still have my MB and MBP to enjoy Leopard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zam Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 This barebone seems to have the notorious GMA 3100 graphics chip, which is not supported for hardware acceleration. Another problem is that the GMA 3100 somehow conflicts with the ICH7 hard disk controller, making OS X unable to boot. This problem is easily fixed by throwing in a proper NVidia graphics card. After that, this barebone should make for a perfect hackintosh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmprichard Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I can confirm that i have this barebones working with an nvidia 7900gt. I am using vanilla kernel. The sound works fine with kalyway 10.5.2 amd intel, but ihave not tested the ethernet.All in all seems like a good hackingtosh.I can confirm that i have this barebones working with an nvidia 7900gt. I am using vanilla kernel. The sound works fine with kalyway 10.5.2 amd intel, but ihave not tested the ethernet.All in all seems like a good hackingtosh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmprichard Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 More details to post about this barebones kit. I have upgraded from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3 using the kalyway combo update. i had some difficulties getting stuck at the bsod prompt, but rebooting twice and typing update -v allowed me to boot fully. Also i have swtiched to a 7600gt nvidia graphics card and this works, with the caveat that the upgrade will disable quartz extreme and rotation and stuff if you use the nvinject kext. I used the natit and so it went fine. the 10.5.4 update proceeded fine doing this from the apple update tool. Very happy with it. Just bought an msi wind and going to install kalyway on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david tsu Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 I have the T3-P5945GC. Looks pretty similiar. Started off with 2.6ghz Dual Core. Using kalyway 10.5.2. Everything works. Mine came with the GMA950 and the ADI sound chip. Ethernet works, Video works, Sound works (might need to get the model off the sound chip and search the fourms, I didn't quite remember), sata works, ide works. Did not have much problem getting it running with osx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin Davidson Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 i cant seem to get this working.. i have this asus barebone, but it installs but it wont boot.. i have a nvidia card installed so the graphics isnt an issue.... any help on what i need to check on kalyway 10.5.2??? is this the best distro to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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