total success with Dell Precision 530 work station

[Eskurza]

Hey guys,

 

Just wanted to share my experiance of x86 installation and setup.

 

I have a Dell Precision 530 workstation

Intel Xeon 1.7Ghz Processor

1gb rambus ram

various harddrives SCSI, IDE etc..

Nvidia Quatro 2 video 64Mb

Lg burner etc..

 

First of all the demoo image worked perfectly for me.. all I did was to dd it to my spare

20gb ide harddrive. keeping my existing winxp installation in my SCSI.. (easier boot this way)

I select boot menu -> SCSI for winxp , IDE for x86

 

onboard AC97 and 3com network card was recognized from the boot immediatly..

Video acceleration / Creative Audigy / AverMedia Tv Tuner However not recognized(well no surprise there)

My SCSI harddrive is not recognized either.. I am guessing the the SCSI adapter is not known to the Os X

 

With the sofware I managed to install most of my applications..

Some Successes I had are:

 

1- Mac Office 2004

2- Logic Pro 7.0

3- iMovie

4-MSN

 

etc..

 

Limewire however did not work for me for some reason.. instead I am using ACQLITE..(awsome program)

 

Not working applications:

 

1- I could not get garageband to work..(keeps saying that the library for instruments are not there)

2- Limewire( a bit of a surprise there)

 

So far I am very haapy with the results.. no craches no lags.. no slowness whatsoever..

Only problems are video acceleration i guess.. Once someone helps us out with Nvidia drivers, I am

completely swithced.

 

Let me know any solutions to SCSI and Tv tuner..

 

thanks..

 

 

 

[thrunner]

Congrats, you may be one of the first to install on a Xeon successfully, but I guess the others were trying for dual Xeon setups:

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...pic=387&hl=xeon

 

I guess it is not really a "total success" if your Quartz Extreme/Coregraphics/CreativeAudigy/SCSI and others don't work

 

In any case try to run iTunes and QuickTime video and Safari. I know on a non-Xeon Pentium M laptop, there were problems with the deadmoo image until newer patches were installed.