nightalon Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 My configuration: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Thus: 2 On-board recognized FireWire A 8 On-board recognized USB 2.0 On-board Intel CSA recognized 1 Gbit LAN On-board Realtek 1980 AC97 recognized Audio AGP 8x Phoenix BIOS Intel Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz OC'ed to 3.08 Ghz [summer speed] (Prescott) with SSE3 (Socket 478) 2x 512 MB Dual-Channel DDR 4000 Mushkin RAM ATI Radeon X800XL AGP 8x (VESA 3.0: no Quartz Extreme, etc.) Audigy 2 ZS Platinum (non-functioning but FireWire works and recognized as PCI) 3 HD: 2x 80 GB IDE on Promise ATA controller 1x 30 GB IDE on Intel ICH controller Lite-on DVDRW Lite-on DVD/CDRW PCI Marvell Libertas chipset generic 802.11 b/g (no functionality, thinking about buying card with Broadcom chipset) USB Printer: HP LaserJet 3015 (fully functional with normal drivers!) USB Printer: Lexmark X83 (unable to install drivers) USB Card Reader: (fully functional) USB External 2.5" Hard Drive Enclosure: (fully functional) Using patched Development DVD image v 0.3, I was for the second time able to easily install Marklar. (The first time I used VMWare, PearPC.) I now run triple-boot: WinXP on Promise master, Linux on Promise slave; MacOS on Intel master. WinXP is default OS but I can select booting drive using F8. With this install and, I think, the Intal PATA kext, my HD access is perfectly fast. As for incompatibility: all programs are compatible except iDVD doesn't find a compatible DVDRW drive and GarageBand screws up my sound. OpenGL works but only when I move the window really fast. Acceleration is certainly not there. Photoshop CS2, Quicktime 7, iTunes5, MS Office 2004, and the rest of iLife 2005 all run fine to the extent that I have used these applications. Speed difference is not noticeable except when opening a PowerPC application initially. Using Safari, I cannot install plug-ins such as Flash. Sound was an issue, however. Although my Realtek AC97, after being turned on in the BIOS, was recognized, sound only came out of the Mic/Rear jack on my motherboard. Regardless of the Sound settings I chose in the Control Panel or Audio MIDI Setup in Utilities, I was unable to have either 5.1 sound or bring the sound to the front speakers without rearranging the jacks, although 5.1 sound was an option in the Audio MIDI Utility. Even using Aggregate I still had the same problem. Switching to SPDIF output, however, solved the problem. Microphone in works through front port, and all other recording functions are available. Certain applications boost the sound too much, resulting in poor quality. RealPlayer streaming and QuickTime MPEG4 videos play well at full-screen resolutions. I cannot test the DVD player because it is not installed. VLC plays DVDs despite occasional error; perhaps drive is incompatible or deCSS does not work. I am thus very happy to have succeeded to such an extent. I look forward to the final versions of MacOS for x86 hardware. Let's keep this thing alive. I believe Linux is the future, but we need MacOS to get us from our Windows boxes all the way to true open source. There it is. Ja bless! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2566-asus-p4c800-e-deluxe/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
iRob Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I have almost same setup as you (same mobo etc) but cannot get my microphone to work. Can you let me know exactly how you have it setup in terms of getting the mic to work. All other sound is OK but cannot get mic working in either front or back mic ports. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2566-asus-p4c800-e-deluxe/#findComment-49200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishkorp Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I have the same mobo and the 3.2ghz CPU. were you able to install with the default kernel? It wouldn't work for me unless i used the .nonx kernel, and that turns off the SSE3, which my CPU has. It would just keep hanging or cycling through certain things after the installation was complete just before the screen to add/create a user if I used the normal patched kernel. Just wondering what options you used so maybe I can try again to get the full potential out of my machine. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2566-asus-p4c800-e-deluxe/#findComment-49326 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBryan Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Did OSX recognize the Promise controller? I'm considering buying a PCI IDE controller with that chipset if it works since I have ITE8211 that doesn't work for my optical drives. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2566-asus-p4c800-e-deluxe/#findComment-147482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightalon Posted July 21, 2007 Author Share Posted July 21, 2007 This is a reply to all of you. I'm really not sure in which distribution the microphone was working, but I did have it working once. I actually think that may have been around 10.4.5. The Promise controller is not recognized. Sorry. JaS's 10.4.8 install I know works on my hardware. Just getting it to work with an AGP ATI X800XL is a real pain. Best of luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2566-asus-p4c800-e-deluxe/#findComment-412500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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