iDeneb v1.4 Successful installation

[Rick From Shanghai]

I have just installed Leopard 10.5.6 by using iDeneb v1.4 on my REALLY OLD machine. Here are some steps:

My SPEC:

MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-945PL-S3

CPU: Intel Pentium D 820 2.8Ghz

RAM: DDR2-667 1G x2

Video: nVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

HD: Seagate 160G SATA (XP)

WD 200G SATA (Leopard)

DVD: Pioneer DVD RW (PATA)

FireWire: unknown brand, FireWire 400 PCI

Keyboard: ViewSonic Wireless (USB adaptor)

Mouse: Logitech USB

 

1st time installation:

Wrong combination of patches, system frozen at the end of installation.

2nd time:

Use Vanilla Kernel, after installation, automatically reboot when loading kexts.

3rd time with following patches:

9.5.0 Voodoo patch

ICHx patch

NVinject 256mb

Realtek1000

(Forgot to check alc883 for sound and seatbelt fix during the installation)

 

after boot up,

no sound,

memory speed recognized incorrectly. (66Mhz instead of 677)

rest works fine.

Installed 883 patch and updated BIOS, sound fixed but no sound info in system profiler. Memory recognized correctly after BIOS update.

 

Downloaded firefox, when mounting DMG, kernel panic. Replaced the seatbelt by following the instruction in Post-installation section. Problem solved.

 

Minor Problems that I knew so far:

Headphone jack in front panel doesn’t work

use mouse to wake system from sleep, mouse and keyboard lost control, have to reboot by force.

Keyboard responding sometime tends to be slow; I will buy a Mac G6 Keyboard to fix.

 

Very happy so far, not as good as my 17" MacBook Pro 2.6, but pretty workable desktop for such an old machine.

 

Next step, I will consider to build a new system by more up-to-date configurations.

Premier idea as:

GA-EP45-UD3R

Intel Q6600 or Q9550

Ram: 1066 DDR2 2Gx4

Video: GeForce 9600 or 9800

 

Please advise!