opieum Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 This may be and I say that with 80% certainty due to the technology integrated. This is a board that features the technology Apple is using to "protect" the OS from being used on other machines. And chances are it will allow an unrestricted install of MacOS X86 to install from a bootable DVD. If anyone has this board and has had success please post it here. Here is a site that retails the board. Not too bad a price. http://www.hypermicro.com/product.asp?pf_id=MBIN461B This is the info on the board. http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/rh/index.htm microATX (9.60 inches by 9.60 inches [243.84 mm by 243.84 mm]) Processor Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 Extreme Edition processor in an mPGA478 socket with a 800 MHz system bus Support for an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor in an mPGA478 socket with a 400/533/800 MHz system bus Support for an Intel® Celeron® D processor in an mPGA478 socket with a 533 MHz system bus Support for an Intel® Celeron® processor in an mPGA478 socket with a 400 MHz system bus Memory Four 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets Support for DDR 400, DDR 333, and DDR 266 Chipset Intel® 865G Chipset Security Infineon* Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Wave Systems* EMBASSY* Trust Suite Document Manager Private Information Manager SmartSignature* I/O Control SMSC LPC47M172 LPC Bus I/O controller Audio SoundMAX 4 XL with AudioESP audio subsystem using the Analog Devices AD1985 codec Video Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 controller Universal 0.8/1.5 V AGP 3.0 connector supporting 1x, 4x, and 8x AGP cards or an GP Digital Display (ADD) card Integrated retention mechanism Peripheral Interfaces Eight USB 2.0 ports One serial port One parallel port Two Serial ATA IDE interfaces Two Parallel ATA IDE interfaces with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support One diskette drive interface PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports Expansion Capabilities Three PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus connector 2) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/383-the-mac-dev-motherboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpnut Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 I dont know if this is the answer that you are looking for but this is not the same motherboard that is in the Apple devkit. Is it the same chipset? Who knows. A couple differences that I noticed: This is 3 pci slots, Apple dev board has 2 (and some sort of AMR type slot?) Placement of battery / TPM chips is different. Im not sure that they both use the same audio. Board you linked is not AC97 as far as I can tell. Im guessing that it would run OSx86 given an SSE3 CPU with Rosetta, quartz extreme and ethernet but I wouldnt be willing to put any money on the sound working. I guess I still dont understand how the dev install implements TPM checking...so I can't really speculate on whether or not it will install straight from the DVD without modification. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/383-the-mac-dev-motherboard/#findComment-2527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guido420 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 I dont know if this is the answer that you are looking for but this is not the same motherboard that is in the Apple devkit. Is it the same chipset? Who knows. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well right off the bat I notice that you are pointing to an 865 Chipset not a 915.... On the right track though. Keep up the good work. Peace Out! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/383-the-mac-dev-motherboard/#findComment-2685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
opieum Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 Well right off the bat I notice that you are pointing to an 865 Chipset not a 915.... On the right track though. Keep up the good work. Peace Out! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yea I posted that with good reason. I am using a D845GERG2 board with a pentium 4 2.40GHZ and with all the patches recently put out it all seems to work great sound and all. With Rosetta alot of stuff started working. But my main comment pointing to the 865 is that it is a board with the TPM feature. That is mostly my thing. the 865 has that feature but if the 915 also has it and it is the dev kit one then the 865 should by reason of having TPM work with a standard image. I think Apple may be considering releasing the OS at some point later on as a seperate product. It seems to easy to circumvent and I think alot of people would buy it just because it is so rock solid. This would certainly be the right time for them as windows is flooded with A: Spyware B: Viruses C: more exploits than you can keep track of. From a marketing standpoint alone Apple could make a killing. All they need to do is advertise the things above to their advantage. Anyways my discussion was abotu the board. I figured it makes a good not as expensive board to work with. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/383-the-mac-dev-motherboard/#findComment-2752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 D915GUX is the motherboard (as far as I've read on other forums). I have the D916GUXL augmentation (no TPM, LK has TPM). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/383-the-mac-dev-motherboard/#findComment-3720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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