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A knock-on Optiplex 620 question: I just came across a batch of these machines at a bankruptcy sale: they are almost all Celeron D's. I'm going to throw some Kalyway and other distros at one this afternoon but it's remarkably difficult to figure out what processors will slot in to upgrade the skanky Celeron. I have a funny feeling that a Pentium M with 1MB onboard might go faster than a 3.0GHz with only 128k, but I can't find a usable chart or guide anywhere that says "buy this and get dual-core capability"...

 

Anyone got any suggestions? These machines were so stupidly cheap it would be rude not to make them go a bit faster!

  • 2 months later...
DEAR LORD IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!

 

running jas osx86 10.5.2 on a Dell optiplex gx620

 

i inserted the AppleAC97Audio.kext in to System/Library/Extensions <--- you can find this file at the bottom post

 

and then opened terminal and typed

 

Terminal.app:

sudo -s

cd /System/Library

rm extensions.mkext

rm extensions.kextcache

chmod -R 755 ./Extensions/AppleAC97Audio.kext

chown -R root:wheel ./Extensions/AppleAC97Audio.kext

kextcache -k ./Extensions

 

and then did a restart and now i have sound amazing beautiful sound..

 

I'm also using a belkin usb NIC and the driver i used is called pegasus ethernets just copy and paste the link

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pegasususbmacx/

 

but i am going to try and get the onboard NIC working i know there is a fix for it but i just haven't gotten around to it thanks to everyone for all their hard work on this

 

 

Thank for the information! it also worked on my GX520!

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any tell me what options im suppose to check i have iatko 5i on dvd and it installs with but just keeps rebooting. am i missing something im suppose to be installing with it. i know on my laptop i had to select some option in the custom install but couldn't find anything special to do with this desktop. any bios options that i should be checking. It is a opti 620 1 sata HD and 2 PATA cd roms. it boots and then just keeps rebooting. never gets to the os im not seeing any errors if i use -v, only gets through like 5 lines of text then it reboots. any help would be great.

  • 2 months later...
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