Install help PLEASE !

[The User]

I found a modified BIOS v5.16 for HP Pavilion d5000t (IPIBL-TX) on this site. I successfully updated my system with this BIOS. Now when I stick retail Leopard OS disk in the DVD drive and selected to boot from it nothing happens.. my Vista starts. I thought having modified BIOS was supposed to let me boot using retail OS. Am I missing something??

 

Thanks in advance.

[sama7896]

I found a modified BIOS v5.16 for HP Pavilion d5000t (IPIBL-TX) on this site. I successfully updated my system with this BIOS. Now when I stick retail Leopard OS disk in the DVD drive and selected to boot from it nothing happens.. my Vista starts. I thought having modified BIOS was supposed to let me boot using retail OS. Am I missing something??

 

Thanks in advance.

Hi

yes, you are missing something:

Bios patch is suppose to eliminate some errors of mac os not reading right your hardware. It's kind of a dsdt fix, but it's hardwritten in bios. Good thing pros do these mods.

SO, to answer .. you still need a Boot 132 CD/USB to boot your retail DVD (it's like the disk swap thing in ps2). Or you can buy a Efix

 

Afterwards you need to install a bootloader to eliminate the need for a B132 cd.

Please read some of the stickies on this site. They are actually useful

[jaykk]

I found a modified BIOS v5.16 for HP Pavilion d5000t (IPIBL-TX) on this site. I successfully updated my system with this BIOS. Now when I stick retail Leopard OS disk in the DVD drive and selected to boot from it nothing happens.. my Vista starts. I thought having modified BIOS was supposed to let me boot using retail OS. Am I missing something??

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

Hi,

 

I was out of hackintosh scene for a while, new job, moving etc.. I am back on now, trying to get a HP TX2 running hackintosh, with touch etc working on hackintosh. I don't have the system yet, waiting for a good deal.

 

Anyways, I was one of the first one who used the modifed bios on this motherboard.(Thanks to Order2Chaos who did the mod for me.)

 

So far,

1) I couldn't use the stock DVD, started with Kalyway 10.5.2, updated all the way to 10.5.6 using Netkas method ( http://netkas.org/?p=50)

 

2) I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive before applying any new updates. I cloned drive boots perfectly. As soon you get you the system up and running, make a clone.

 

3) firewire is working ( almost, one firewire external harddisk didn't mount, may be some chipset have issues, but all others work, including firewire iSight)

4) Sound was a big issue, but finally got it working, I didnt go for full 5 channel sound, the basic setup is fine for me.

5) Onboard Ethernet won't work, I use a cheap card

6) all 4 cpus are active, thanks to moded bios.

 

7) ISSUE with running Mac OS X server on VMWare Fusion. VMWare fusion thinks it is a 32bit CPU, though all 4 cores are running. I can install XP on Fusion, not OS X server.

 

Anyways, if anyone having issue, I will try to dig deep into my setup and try to help you.

 

good luck

 

_ Jay