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[Jason K]

Gateway GT5014

 

I got this rig working with all of the wonderful help/patches found here:

 

Added to the baseline rig:

 

2 Additional Gb or RAM (3 total)

ADD2 DVI Adapter

120 Gb hard drive for OSX86

 

I use the motherboard built in F10 function to select my boot drive so I don't need to partition.

 

Sound works out of the black connector (stereo) and sounds great when I jam iTunes.

 

Video card works out of DVI on my BENQ 19" 1280x1024 display -- gorgeous! I just bought the new wingnuts 2 and played it over the weekend. The graphics are great and fast! I have allocated the full 224 Meg RAM to video.

 

DVD +/- works

 

The Media Card bay works

 

It all works! And might I say it ROCKS! I have a G4 1Ghz with 1.25 Gb or RAM, and the above rig is orders of magnitude faster. It boots in about 15 second -- just sick!

 

Oh, BTW, I bough the rig at a CompUSA closeout price of $539 with 1 Gb RAM and 250 Gb hard drive.

 

I added $36 for the ADD2, $280 for the memory, and had a spare 120 Gb SATA drive lying around.

 

My total out of pocket to have a dual boot Windows MCE2005 and OSX86 10.4.7 system was $885 (I spent like $90 on the drive some time ago, so counting that $975).

 

Best,

 

MDG.

 

 

Just wondering what you did to get this working. I've tried using a boot EFI, and seperate drives, but still can't seem to get my gt5014 to boot to an install partition? Any tips would be awesome!