Telo Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Hello, I recently saw this board and immediately thought about making a Mac Pro clone. Has anyone had any success with this board? Is the chipset even supported [intel 5500]? Any help and/or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rm Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Hello, I recently saw this board and immediately thought about making a Mac Pro clone. Has anyone had any success with this board? Is the chipset even supported [intel 5500]? Any help and/or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced. Any response? Has anyone built a dual nehalem ie: DUAL LGA 1366 hackintosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaksauce12 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I'm curious to know this as well...it's a pretty ridiculous board for $270 USD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilgenius911 Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 Hey guys... just so you know i have a working build of this board running windows 7. I have tried the boot-132 method but am getting an error stating that the CPU fsb is 0 and the apple kernel will not allow this. I beleive it is because i have only 1 cpu current installed. I should have another Xeon installed within a month. i would love to get this up and running. it seems it should be an easy task as it is ICH10 and no onboard audio but we will find out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o_ren Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Hi I'm currently struggling with this Supermicro intel 5500 board. I'm trying with iDeneb 10.5.6 distro. My setup has two Xeons and an Nvidia 8800 gpu. Any help would be appreciated regarding which patches to use in the install. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 install options,... have another box, do the diskutil, and then do an ipc dl 10.5.6 install from running system, onto the target disk,.... after that , stick it in the dual xeon server,... to boot, with F8 cpus=1 -v -x might need some additional settings, , like fsb, acpi, etc,... one guy tried, with only one cpu, and it hung, saying fsb=0 not allowed, since it runs , with QPI channels, they might be also efi issues, and bios settings, bios, disable HT, maybe VT, and PNP switch between plug play, to fixed, disk controller, turn off raid, workaround,... testing, with USB disk, next step,... an sata/esata LSI card,... ... watch out catch 22,... you need to install from another machine, the drivers first,... or get one with buildin drivers in osx,.... anybody knows a supported, sata or sas card by the kernel ? of course bott123 is a start,... there is also think boot,... aka bootcamp / boot123, search for that love to see it running, oh,.... anybody knows a dual xeon 1366 motherboard, with overclocking feature in the bios ? or maybe a solder trick ? would be nice ,.... and looking for some recommended heatsinks, that would with in a 3U,..... I'll take 4u if not pm me, not checking that often... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenophobe Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 I tried the Asus ASUS Z8PE-D18 and couldn't get it to work so I'm returning it and looking for another suitable dual Xeon 1366 board that works with Leopard. I know there's a thread here with a successful Z8PE-D12 install but I had a nightmare with the D18 board so it's left a bad taste in my mouth. Here's my thread on uphuck regarding my D18 woes: http://www.uphuck.ggrn.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5412 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epidemicbilly Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Hello, I recently saw this board and immediately thought about making a Mac Pro clone. Has anyone had any success with this board? Is the chipset even supported [intel 5500]? Any help and/or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced. I was able to install iDeneb v1.4 10.5.6 as a virtual machine operating system using the Asus Z8NA-D6C motherboard, then I cloned it 4 times as to make a mac render farm! I would only assume that this board will handle OSX as the main operating system. fyi I found this post while looking for help, I thought I would drop back by and spread the good news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidahn Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Anyone tried it yet? I'm getting the itch too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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