samsdb0 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 narf and blanka basically kick ass and yea, the boot selector is sexy as hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeguy Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Wonder if they made a boot screen with Tux on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drcreek Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Even Tho it has windows on it the boot selector has Mac style! This is some awesome stuff! Guess who just ordered a iMac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveM Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 another thing, is the procedure generic enough to allow for installation of lets say Windows Vista if you want to? or is it customized only for XP? Could you potentially upgrade XP to Vista? That is an awesome boot selector interface! So far it looks to me like its customized to work on XP. No luck so far for me on a 20" iMac, but blanka is working on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac86 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 So far it looks to me like its customized to work on XP. No luck so far for me on a 20" iMac, but blanka is working on it. Are you a tester? What are your machine's specs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 keep us updated on the driver search...because that seems to be the final hurdle before we have the full awesomeness of OS X and Windows coexisting on the same system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveM Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Are you a tester? What are your machine's specs? Yeah 20" Intel iMac 1.5GB RAM 2GHz Duo 128MB x1600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac tosh Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Yes, if drivers were not an issue for a while i would be very suprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John the Geek Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Unfortunatly I'm having a bit of trouble with it. Once I began the Windows Install. I completely FUBAR'ed the Win partition so upon reboot it just crashed. Trying again from scratch. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac86 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Out of curiosity, is the process " files you download and use a regular xp install cd" ? I was reading that there was possibly a modified Kernel floating around there. Any info on this without giving too much away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefsalami Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I notice in the last picture that AirmanPika posted that even the SMBus is not correctly matched up to a driver. I got to thinking earlier about "chipset" drivers and how for most "modern" machines, you have to install chipset drivers to control all of the basic motherboard functionality: IDE/SATA channel, power management, USB2, etc. Without these drivers, the system runs like {censored} and is unstable. Any thought about whether that is needed or not here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-009247.htm The Intel Mac's use Intel 945 chipset, so try installing that actually, before you do that, i would run their diagnostic utility to double check that it is a compatible 945 chipset (should be) http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df...x?ProductID=861 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgi02 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-009247.htm The Intel Mac's use Intel 945 chipset, so try installing that actually, before you do that, i would run their diagnostic utility to double check that it is a compatible 945 chipset (should be) http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df...x?ProductID=861 Intel puts out the Intel Chipset Installiation Utility. This is a unified ( mostly ) set of drivers that works with most all Intel chipsets that arent nativley supported out of the box by Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Yea the standard catalyst drivers don't work on the 17" imac either. Gonna try the Omega ones to see if that helps any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sklarsky Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 similar to the way the radeon drivers for mac have been hacked is it possible to modify the windows drivers to accept the device id of the x1600 in the macs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac tosh Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 We can always have another contest for the ***** drivers ; ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathChill Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Yea the standard catalyst drivers don't work on the 17" imac either. Gonna try the Omega ones to see if that helps any. I had thought that there was specialized x1600 XT drivers for Windows so that people wouldn't have to wait. Look 'em up and see if those will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstin Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Maybe look at this. http://forum.onmac.net/showpost.php?p=315&postcount=22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Why can't the regular Catalyst drivers be used though? In the release notes, it says X1600 is supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John the Geek Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Maybe look at this. http://forum.onmac.net/showpost.php?p=315&postcount=22 I dug that up, and it was before we could run XP on the Mac natively. I'm still having trouble with the install, so I'm not there to test them yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Well the Omega drivers seem to sorta work. My videocard says its an M56 now but video is still laggy so I dunno if it did much. www.omegadrivers.net btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typerlover Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Any idea if the Intel chipset drives idea is necessary as well? I may go buy a macbook tomorrow if I can play Counterstrike Source on this thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratus Fear Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Well the Omega drivers seem to sorta work. My videocard says its an M56 now but video is still laggy so I dunno if it did much. www.omegadrivers.net btw That's it!! It's the Mobility X1600. Why this was never expressed by Apple is beyond me. M56 is the mobility chip. You could try to install the mobility Catalyst drivers from ATI's site to see if they work. I think it give an error about OEMs (apparently they only "support" certain manufactuers with those drivers) but you could probably get around that by extracting the package yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickhamm Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 You may be able to tell if you have 3D support and some basic acceleration by running dxdiag and doing the tests on the Display tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
typerlover Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Try this out for installing desktop catalyst drivers for the mobile versions of the graphics cards: http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/ Worked for me on my thinkpad, and this would allow for possibly a better drive to be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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