webtrawler84 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I Have been trying to get OSX installed using this board but up till now I have had no luck at all, Until NOW. I finally managed to get OSX installed the other night have been testing for a few days and can now day that it seems to be 100% Working using the following method: My Setup: ECS P35T-A Intel Q6600 Quad Core CPU 6GB DDR2@800Mhz Geforce 9600GT 512MB PCI-E Graphics Card 500GB 7200RPM Hitachi SATA2 Hard Drive Onboard Audio Requirements: BIOS Patch - HERE iAtkos v7 ready at hand on DVD - Google is you friend Spare Hard Drive - I have used a seperate hard drive for this how-to as this is how I set mine up. Stage 1 - Pre-Installation: Using the supplied utility flash your bios with the above patch - This is what made the biggest difference and is a MUST. reboot the machine and enable AHCI in the bios(will check other settings later) Stage 2 - Installation: Boot from the iAtkos DVD. Once booted follow instructions and proceed till it asks to select installation partition. Using the menu at the top select the disk utility and partition as required. Once back at the partition selection, select the partition you have just made and click next. This should now bring you to a screen saying that you are ready to install and to click continue. In the lower left corner of that screen there will be a button called "customise", Click it (DO NOT Carry on with the installation yet). This will bring a new screen up where you can enable and install other patch's and drivers. The only things that I ticked were AHCI Intel Chipset Drivers Generic IDE Drivers(unsure if this is needed) Intel Speedstep - Both DVI / DVI EFI String - Check what connections are on the back of your Graphics Card NVEnabler Intel82566MM The only other thing that you need is the voodooHDA drivers that should already be selected by default. At this point you can also select any other audio or wireless drivers that you may need. Once it has finished remove the DVD, Reboot and you should see the bootloader startup and OSX should load into the first welcome screen ready to configure users etc... Stage 3 - Post Installation: once done double check all drivers are installed correctly and update to 10.5.8 using system update, you are now ready to start customising and installing programs as you require. at this point you should have a fully working and fully up to day installation, I will update this again once I have had a chance to try S/L. hope this helps any comments welcome Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193183-ecsp35t-a-1058-installed-and-100-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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