Space Marine Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Has anyone tested OSX86 on this chipset? http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050811/ At the moment only the ASrock 939Dual-Sata2 is built with this chip, but it seems a very good solution, under both performance and price aspect. And it is the only s939 Mainboard with native support for both AGP 8x as well PCIex on the same board. I was interested in buying one with a A64 s939 3000+ Venice (SSE3 support, OSX86 rdy, obviously no 3d card support at this time), but i would like to know if it will support OSX, at least like any Nforce3 and 4 chipset, nothing of special, only boot and OS loading. Thks in advance for the answers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4264-chipset-uli-m1695m1567/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumpo Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Hiya! I have the exact same config. The ASRock Board + Venice 3000. The board runs osx smooth and quite fast, but there are some limitations: *NIC is not recognized (get some cheap 5 buck rtl8139 that works out of the box) *Sound doesn't work (same as above, I got a ceap (10 bucks or so) soundboard that works just fine *Only 1st IDE channel works *SATA is not detected USB2 works (itunes w/ipod) Overall the board is a good performer under Windows, Solaris and Linux (I do cross platform development) and has proven to be rock(haha - nu pun intended) stable so far. If it is ok for you to throw in some cheap junk hardware, it works alright in OS, too hth crumpo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4264-chipset-uli-m1695m1567/#findComment-27362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Marine Posted November 9, 2005 Author Share Posted November 9, 2005 Hiya!I have the exact same config. The ASRock Board + Venice 3000. The board runs osx smooth and quite fast, but there are some limitations: *NIC is not recognized (get some cheap 5 buck rtl8139 that works out of the box) *Sound doesn't work (same as above, I got a ceap (10 bucks or so) soundboard that works just fine *Only 1st IDE channel works *SATA is not detected USB2 works (itunes w/ipod) Overall the board is a good performer under Windows, Solaris and Linux (I do cross platform development) and has proven to be rock(haha - nu pun intended) stable so far. If it is ok for you to throw in some cheap junk hardware, it works alright in OS, too hth crumpo Good to Hear About the sound card i have an old 1024 live player too, but in the compatibility list does not appear. For lan i have a rltk chip based card, so i dont think that it will be a problem However what do you mean exactly with "Only 1st IDE channel works"? You mean that 2nd channel (and all the peripherals connected to it) will not be recognized? If yes, is a big limitation I WILL (maybe, and hopefully eh ) have a 2x Maxtor 120gb sata150 raid and only a 120gb ata133 and an old 80gb ata133 on ide, plus dvd reader and dvd writer. Then, if raid will not be supported, i will have to setup the 120gb as primary master, the dvd writer as primary slave (so i will have the biggest ata 133 hd between the 2 and the writer, that can read and burn dvd too on mac osx), then the 80gb on secondary master and the dvd reader on secondary slave, so can be easily readed by winxpx64 and linux (havent choosed which distribution yet ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4264-chipset-uli-m1695m1567/#findComment-27431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumpo Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 >>About the sound card i have an old 1024 live player too, but in the compatibility list does not appear. >>For lan i have a rltk chip based card, so i dont think that it will be a problem FUnny I have the player 1024 too, but it makes the board fairly instable (and afaik isn't supported in osx anyway), causes bsods in xp - dunno if the card's broken or idf there are incompatibility issues - as I said, my 10 bucks soundboard works without problems in all operating systems However what do you mean exactly with "Only 1st IDE channel works"? You mean that 2nd channel (and all the peripherals connected to it) will not be recognized? >> yep, that's true,. only 1st chan works. you gotta hook up ide and your dvd to that one about which distro: I found that suse & debian sarge play nicely on the hardware, and I wasn't too happy with the latest ubuntu, which would frequently lock up in x hth crumpo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4264-chipset-uli-m1695m1567/#findComment-27506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gymnae Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Damn, thats why it feels so slow. I have my Asrock setup now too and just wondered, why it didn't fell much faster than my iBook G4 (I'm using a 3200+ Venice). Hmm....hopefully someone comes up with a solution, or I'll try to boot via USB 2.0 (if thats a possibility). I've just read that SATA runs quiet faster. Wouldn't it be an interim solution to attach an IDE to SATA Adapter on the IDE Drive and then attach it so the SATA Port? It would a be quiet cheap investion for a speed increase! What do you mean? greets! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4264-chipset-uli-m1695m1567/#findComment-108536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Madness Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 I don't know if it helps but I've an AsRock DualSATA2 mobo too and the two IDE channels work-at least I think- cos my 2 hard drives are on the primary channel and my two dvd player and burner are on the second one but like everybody the UDMA is not recognized with this motherboard Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4264-chipset-uli-m1695m1567/#findComment-112518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gymnae Posted May 20, 2006 Share Posted May 20, 2006 I'm using an SATAII HDD with the Asrock Board now, I used an 10.4.6. Install from JaS and copied in some modified kexts to get SATA to work. The speed is somehow not the best though.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/4264-chipset-uli-m1695m1567/#findComment-116361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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