freakds Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 After some research I've decided to buy Asus P5Q Pro. Planning to install Kalyway Leopard 10.5.2 using modded BIOS. So I call you all owners of this mobo share your experience here. Can I dual-boot Vista (64 bit) and Leopard on it ? How stable is Mac os x86 on it ? Any crashes, freezes, errors after installation ? Is anything onboard working ? Mention if some path work is needed. Audio ? (yes/no) (needs patch ?) LAN ? (yes/no) (needs patch ?) sata ? (yes/no) (needs patch ?) IDE ? (yes/no) (needs patch ?) Please post latest link to the modded BIOS and patches (whenever needed). Waiting for reply. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fighterhawk Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 I just might be able to reply to this soon I bought the asus p5q deluxe but my gfx card is an ati radeon 4850hd so i'l have to get a cheaper nvidia card before I can install osx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DotMerix Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 I would like to know aswell.. I am considering purchasing an asus p5q pro, 9800gtx+, e8500 and 4gb of mushkin ram.. Will all of these work with osx86? Is there a suggestion for another motherboard around the ballpark of the p5q pro that would be easier to install? I would also like a good overclockable board as i plan on getting the e8500 past 4.0ghz. I also need to make sure lan, mic, headphones and all audio jacks will work. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theorian82 Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Ahoy! Am using a P5Q pro MB with Kalyway Osx86 installed. Works fine except for: Audio ? (yes/no) (needs patch ?) - No, needs the appropriate kext files - P45 not well supported at all! LAN ? (yes/no) (needs patch ?) - No, No kext files available yet - Your best bet is to buy a cheap USB wireless adapter sata ? (yes/no) (needs patch ?) - Yes, works fine .. in fact, you need to have a SATA HDD and a SATA DVD drive in order to install Kalyway IDE ? (yes/no) (needs patch ?) - No, needs the appropriate kext files. You can find links to the Sound and IDE 'patches' on the forums. Sorry I don't have the links for you...but they're easy enough to find! All of my Q6600 cores work fine alongside my RAM. Remember you will need a SATA HDD + DVD drive in order for Kalyway to work as a DVD install. I will also suggest that you download a modded .ROM file for your bios, as Kalyway will not work with the ASUS bios'. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNorthern Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 About a half hour ago I just got my machine up and running w/ p5q-pro I used the JAS 10.5.4 server/client install w/ modified bios and MAC BIOS profile found here: Follow this solution for the "Do you already own a Mac" issue if you have it. I'd like to make a guide, but I'm still a beginner in this arena. Machine Specs: -ASUS P5Q-PRO -Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16 Ghz -Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (Also have another 300GB Maxtor loaded) -G.Skill 4G (2x2GB) 240-pin PC2 8000 -NVidia Geforce 7350 LE ** I purchased an 8600 GT for the build originally but I'm having some issues with the drivers for it in Linux (I'm a linux man primarily). I just don't feel like swapping it out when switching operating systems--the 7350LE works on all of them -HP w2207h monitor via HDMI -Obnoxious case that has a blue light in it--seemed like a good idea at the time -->Currently multibooting Ubuntu 8.10 (w/ XP-pro 32-bit via virtualbox), OSX 10.5.4, & Vista 64 (w/ LinuxMint64 & OpenGEU64 via virtualbox) -->Tested xp-pro 64--worked but I was too lazy to find drivers -->Tested many other Linux distros with consistent success The LAN definitely doesn't work, so I'll probably just install a cheap card, TBD The audio isn't working as of yet, but from what i've gathered, there are solutions available--I'll take care of that this week, hopefully (open to suggestions!). Graphics card works and all other hardware recognized and stable, as far as i know. HOWEVER, it did randomly shut off on me once..not sure what caused it..hardware? I don't know, i might have had a mental relapse and imagined it. Now I'm trying to multiboot with OSX on my HP dv2845se, not having a real fun time... Good luck with the build and multiboot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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