djaxxo Posted November 16, 2008 Share Posted November 16, 2008 Hello ! i'm gonna buy a new motherboard in a few weeks, and i have been looking on this board atm ASUS P5QPL-VM Intel® G41/ ICH7 chipset BIOS 8 Mb Flash ROM AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, ACPI2.0, SMBIOS 2.5 http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&...amp;modelmenu=2 will this be compatible with leopard? because i can choose "smbios" when i'm installing OS X, let say, kalyways version. uhm, i have another mobo i've been looking on, and the differents between this and the over this text, are only 2 things. its "SMBIOS 2.4" and ACPI 2.0b or shall i'll take other mobos(not this 2) that got SMBIOS 2.3 or what? need help with this SMBIOS choice, and the other bios stuff too, is this important ?^^ PS. sorry for my bad english and noobieness .DS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136756-smbios-new-motherboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
djaxxo Posted November 17, 2008 Author Share Posted November 17, 2008 oh yeh why i'll upgrade the mobo is because of compatible OSX and so on, can't it working with my mobo i got now (look in my signature) its restarting, and when i'm going in debug mode, it stands "critical error" i'm gonna install on my PATA disk (60GB maxtor.) or i'll install on a SATA ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136756-smbios-new-motherboard/#findComment-968834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djaxxo Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 bump Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136756-smbios-new-motherboard/#findComment-977795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx66stangxx Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 I don't see why the new mobo wouldn't work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136756-smbios-new-motherboard/#findComment-977801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djaxxo Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 I don't see why the new mobo wouldn't work. is it a different to use a mobo with SMBIOS 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5 ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136756-smbios-new-motherboard/#findComment-980110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djaxxo Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 bump, help plz :unsure: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136756-smbios-new-motherboard/#findComment-1025565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts