viomusicstudio Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 Hi there! I have an old pc with the following specs: - Asrock 775vm800 (Chipset- Northbridge: VIA® P4M800, Southbridge: VIA® 8237R, Audio - CMedia CMI9761A 6 channel AC'97 audio codec LAN - VIA® 6103 10/100 Ethernet LAN PHY - 802.3u, WOL supported - Supports PXE - CPU - Celeron 2,98GHZ - 1GB ram - Maxtor HDD 80GB IDE - Geforce FX5200. Does anyone manage to install osx on this motherboard? I tried Iatkos v7 (10.5.7) and Ideneb 1.6 (10.5.8) , installation went normally without using flags but after reboot, hangs at "flushing fs disk buffer returned 0x5". I used the flag-x and entered the desktop but in safe mode. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 You were lucky to get that far! Use console.app to read system/kernel.log and look for things to fix Use System Information and under software, click Extensions to see which drivers are loaded for the hardware. IORegistryExplorer from OS X developer tools is also helpful. There's a "guide for all nvidia boards" over on ProjectOSX but the forum is down for a couple of days now. The FX5200 might be too old to be supported in 10.5.8, not sure, but the info is in that guide. OS X on Intel has no AGP support, so if that's an AGP card it will work like a PCI card at regular PCI bus speed. This means no high resolution gaming. I used to have a 7600 GT AGP fully working on 10.5.x, except most games (Tomb Raider Anniversary for example) were completely unplayable on anything above 640x480. 640x480 was buttery smooth though Look for specific drivers for the sound and LAN here, you'll be trawling through some very old posts to find those, if they exist at all. I know there are some CMedia sound drivers around here somewhere but I don't know if they'll work with your hardware. When you find useful information make sure that it is period correct, meaning that it's from the time when the OS/distro you are using was released, or from the time when your hardware was still fairly recent. Try to avoid mixing old and new until it's stable. It might be tempting to run the latest version of Chameleon with kernel patcher module and fakesmc etc but it might not work well on old iron like that. Use old OS X and old Hackintosh methods and tools. Once you have it running more or less "period-accurate" you can start trying to update it and see how far you can get. Actually 10.5.7/8 is probably stretching it, you might have better luck with Tiger. Also try JaS Client/Server 10.5.4 and the last 10.5.x iPC distro (I don't remember what version it was or if there was ever a full release, i remember there were some .ppf patches). What's the exact model of that Celeron CPU? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1951516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viomusicstudio Posted October 6, 2013 Author Share Posted October 6, 2013 Also I tried Iatkos v3s2 (10.6.3), pc is restarting when "nvenabler fails" message appear. Now I'm trying Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS, I hope it will work. update: It works. (JAS 10.4.8). I choose "titan" for my video card. What do you think? I want to know if the video card is fully functional. Only left audio channel with Voodo HDA from JAS dvd. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1951531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viomusicstudio Posted October 6, 2013 Author Share Posted October 6, 2013 Ethernet is working with 417-ViaRhine.kext for 10.6. Is the video card activated QE/CI? How can I figure out? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1951592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viomusicstudio Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 I replace onboard audio card with CMI8738. I tried again Iatkos v3s2 without video kext and boot up in desktop without problems. Mouse doesn't work with ps2 voodoo, I will try apple ps2 instead. Also I want to try natit video driver. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1951764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viomusicstudio Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 I reinstall Jas 10.4.8, and with AC-97.pkg sound work on both channels . How can I update to 10.4.11? Safari version is very old and doesn't work on some websites, for example youtube. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1951897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gils83 Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 - CPU - Celeron 2,98GHZ it's CPU 64 bit ? look #2702 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1951932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viomusicstudio Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 Yes 64bit. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1951935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Just ignore that, you will not be able to use a Geforce FX 5200 on Lion or Mountain Lion...much less Mavericks. Read, people....read before posting... If that Celeron indeed has EM64T (this is why I asked you for the full model name earlier, you must have missed it) you can probably use Chameleon's kernel patcher module with an unmodified kernel. Note that this would require you to use a modern version of Chameleon, which is totally and utterly untested with old versions of OS X. If you want to play around with that you might want to install Chameleon to a USB flash drive so as to keep it separate from PC_EFI or the pre-historic versions of Chameleon used by the distros you are messing around with. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1952035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viomusicstudio Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 I don't know what cpu model is exactly, in bios says "64 bit mode", Celeron 2,93GHZ. The "flushing fs disk buffer returned 0x5" error is from the video card in Ideneb 1.6, reinstall without any video kext in customize and now boot in desktop without problems. But I cant manage to make video full work. I tried this metod http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/147066-fx5200-works-1055-and-1056/, but after first step (osc86 tools, add efi string etc) and reboot, hangs at "flushing fs disk buffer returned 0x5", and -x flag doesn't work. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1952181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viomusicstudio Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 LAST NEWS: Evrika, my SL 10.5.8 - ideneb 1.6 is working with QE/CI and Quartz enabled! Steps that I followed: 1. I installed again iDeneb 1.6 with default customize (with voodoo kernel) and without sound, lan, video. 2. After boot in desktop - installed 2587-nvenabler+tools. Reboot. 3. I have followed these steps from OSX86Tools, Universal nvidia installer, etc), without first step ( I haven't removed any geforce kext), and without log out or reboot between steps. (OSX86Tools, Universal nvidia installer, etc) 4. Finnaly reboot. Card is recognised but with scramble graphics. To fix the graphics issue I used Sanya method from the link above with Pacifist and CoreGraphics.framework from IAKTOS 5i dvd. 5. Restart and enabled quartz with OSX86Tools. 6. Installed audio and lan kext. Still, I stuck with a little problem and I hope you can help me. When I click on About This Mac, the system seems to Logout and login back. When I installed ideneb, I checked the "about this mac fix" and yet it seems that is not working. What can I do? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1952374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 No idea. I've forgotten more than I have learned by now. But I know that was a common issue back then and I'm sure you can find a fix for it if you look hard enough. If you had asked me the same question back in 2009 I would have had an answer or a link for you. btw "enabling Quartz" with OS X tools is a red herring. It does not do anything except confuse noobs. Quartz is always enabled for apps that are programmed to use it. Forcing it on for everything will cause issues. Quartz cannot be "enabled" by OS X Tools, you need fully working video drivers to have hardware accelerated graphics. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1952418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viomusicstudio Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 I searched this forum and found a topic of a user who has found the solution. He says: "Edit: fixed by replacing AppleSMBIOS.kext". What AppleSMBIOS.kext should I use? I would not want to ruin the work of a few days Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1952446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 No idea. Take a time machine back to 2009. I remember when we had to use smbios injectors....smbios info is now handled by Chameleon via /Extra/smbios.plist. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1952449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
viomusicstudio Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 I have found the solution to the problem. I have installed AppleSMBIOS-ToH.pkg from iPC 10.5.6 DVD and voila. "About this mac" and hardware info works properly. Thank you all for your help . Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/292470-install-osx-on-old-pc/#findComment-1952492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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