acegr Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 I have installed MAC OSX 10.5.6. Everything works perfect except the dvd drive. it's a nek ad7173. my motherboard is a gigabyte ga-p35 ds4. can anyone help me on how to get the dvd drive running. do i need to install something? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209357-dvd-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generic George Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I have installed MAC OSX 10.5.6. Everything works perfect except the dvd drive. it's a nek ad7173. my motherboard is a gigabyte ga-p35 ds4. can anyone help me on how to get the dvd drive running. do i need to install something? The general consensus as I understand things, is you do NOT want to try and use an IDE DVD drive with a Hackintosh. My advice would be to pick up a SATA DVD drive to replace it. You can try doing a search on here about trying to get an IDE DVD drive to work. It's possible you might turn up something, but as I understand things, an IDE DVD drive is never going to be anything other than a source of problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209357-dvd-drive/#findComment-1397853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acegr Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share Posted January 28, 2010 thanks. i am going to buy one... couldn't find any solution but if anyone does please pm me pls. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209357-dvd-drive/#findComment-1398019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darryljohn Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Or just buy a cheaper alternative... IDE - Sata Controller converter - works for my IDE dvd drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209357-dvd-drive/#findComment-1402034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helgi Sævarsson Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Strange..... I have an Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop and when I installed tiger on it the DVD was found with no trouble at all but now I have managed to upgrade to 10.5.8 (Leopard) and now I have no DVD drive and also my 3D card is no longer supported... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/209357-dvd-drive/#findComment-1409213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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