nrg8ball Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Ok so I am still running an very tired P4 with XP and have never been able to get OSx on here. I found this great deal on a new pc at slickdeals.net and ordered a new HP (I never thought I would say that) It was a price I could not pass up. So with that said, I am going to give my new hardware specs, Can everyone please help me with any known issues or what is the "best" way to get OSx on it, I don' think I could ever use Vista and i comes pre loaded "Yuck!!" HP Pavilion Elite m9300z Desktop AMD Phenom 9550 quad core 2.2gig Nvidia GeForce 9300 256mb, DVI-I, and HDMI 320 gig sata 7200 rpm HD Blu-ray DVD writer/player and Lightscribe supermulti dvd burner ATSC-NTSC TV tuner with PVR, FM and Remote all for $600 Thank you all, and if anyone lives in the Raleigh Durham area I would be willing to pay for help installing and working out bugs thanks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candykane Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 No chance in HELL! Asus M2N68-LA with nforce 430 chip set Audio CODEC: ALC888 will work with a little tweak or work out of te box Onboard LAN PCI Realtek RTL8201N 10/100Mbps well you have a chance to get it working but dont know about lan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Go for intel. It has much better support. 945 motherboard and a core 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realityiswhere Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Ok so I am still running an very tired P4 with XP and have never been able to get OSx on here. I found this great deal on a new pc at slickdeals.net and ordered a new HP (I never thought I would say that) It was a price I could not pass up. So with that said, I am going to give my new hardware specs, Can everyone please help me with any known issues or what is the "best" way to get OSx on it, I don' think I could ever use Vista and i comes pre loaded "Yuck!!" HP Pavilion Elite m9300z Desktop AMD Phenom 9550 quad core 2.2gig Nvidia GeForce 9300 256mb, DVI-I, and HDMI 320 gig sata 7200 rpm HD Blu-ray DVD writer/player and Lightscribe supermulti dvd burner ATSC-NTSC TV tuner with PVR, FM and Remote all for $600 Thank you all, and if anyone lives in the Raleigh Durham area I would be willing to pay for help installing and working out bugs thanks!!! If you insist on using such components with osx86, you'll want the LawlessPPC install image, which has fixes especially for Phenoms. You'll probably need to install and boot with cpus=1 -x -v to get rid of the nforce/nvidia card conflicts until you get the cards vendor/device ids into Geforce.kext, NVDAResman.kext, and NVDANV50Hal.kext (the usual nForce fixes), that is if that ATA/SATA chipset is supported at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 Interesting. I have 2 P4 machines - a desktop and a laptop - both running OSX flawlessly. Not the fastest, but they do what I need absolutely perfectly. As far as HP goes, I used to buy Dells. Lately I've been building my own from scratch but if I had to buy one pre-made I would buy an HP because Dell ain't what they used to be. No shame in that. Your biggest problem may turn out to be that AMD processor. Your choice of kernels is going to be somewhat limited there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 "You sir, are challenged to a dual at sunset, at the creek behind the Castle" Kate Kate says.... Her Dell is perrrrfect, the new apple Aluminium(aluminum for the non english speaking americans ) keyboard is a bit difficult to use with her paws, but she doesn't blame Apple for that! She has one of the best built units on the planet! SticMAN ............because Dell ain't what they used to be. ........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick14 Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 "You sir, are challenged to a dual at sunset, at the creek behind the Castle"Kate Kate says.... Her Dell is perrrrfect, the new apple Aluminium(aluminum for the non english speaking americans ) keyboard is a bit difficult to use with her paws, but she doesn't blame Apple for that! She has one of the best built units on the planet! SticMAN what have you been smoking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg8ball Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 I have tried so many times to get the old P4 to boot, i have gotten all the way through the install and when it tries to boot I get the blinking courser, oh and I really would have gone with the Intel chip set, but then i would have had to give up the Blu-ray burner and that is the only thing that makes the computer worth $600. Thanks for all the advice and please keep it coming! Currently running p4 2.4 gig w\Hyper treading ATi 9550 750 gig HDD space, (3 250 gig IDE drives) and 8x dvd burner looking forward to the upgrade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realityiswhere Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 FYI blinking cursor = easiest. fix. ever. insert the dvd, type rd=diskXsY (where X is the disk number, if it's the only hard drive it's disk0, and Y is the partition number, if it's the only partition on an MBR partition table then it's disk0s1) it'll boot up the install using the dvd as a bootloader, install chameleon once it's booted to fix it and no longer need to use dvd as a bootloader. (http://chameleon DOT osx86 DOT hu ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanden9 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Is there any update on this...I have a m9300z as well....How do I get started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 It's a great Linux, Vista & Windows 7 machine but you're gonna struggle to install OS X on it. Is there any update on this...I have a m9300z as well....How do I get started. ^What he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 what have you been smoking lmaooo, lost me there too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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