byteguy Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Hello all, This is my first post here and I hope I'm in the right place for this. I'm a strictly PC guy for many years and have built many and been doing support on all of the MS os's for years. Now I want/need to learn MAC from a support standpoint. I'm thinking I will buy a Psystar system first to learn how to get around in the OS and start to feel warm and fuzzy before I start building a hackentosh on my own. From what I have read here there are certain MB's that work and more that won't but Gigabyte seems to be what everyone is using. Is there a HCL somewhere I could look at? It would be nice if I could use an old PC I have laying around to build a test box. Anyway, thanks in advance for your input. This certainly is a well organized site and loaded with good info. Eric Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134103-learning-the-os-first/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaaseyRacer Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134103-learning-the-os-first/#findComment-950840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
byteguy Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 Thanks MaaseyRacer. Is there a set of components that are known to work well together? Looks like a pile of MB's that have some hope and a few that everything works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134103-learning-the-os-first/#findComment-951020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 First lesson: It's Mac, not MAC. MAC is related to NICs. Second lesson: Gigabyte p35/p45 motherboard, Core 2 duo CPU, Nvidia 8/9 series. Gogo! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134103-learning-the-os-first/#findComment-951023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
byteguy Posted November 2, 2008 Author Share Posted November 2, 2008 Thanks for the Mac correction. I decided to try the install of 10.5.4 on my Asus A8N-VM CSM with a AMD 64 3500+ today. I got as far as Darwin started and stops with a message "unable to find driver for this platform ACPI." I suspect this isn't the place for install questions of a basic nature. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134103-learning-the-os-first/#findComment-952995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Nope. Ask in the installation forum. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/134103-learning-the-os-first/#findComment-953346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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