BIOSTAR P4M80-M4

[cavemonkey50]

This Christmas I plan on building a Mactel for myself, and I just want to be sure of compatibility. Looking at motherboards, I really like the BIOSTAR P4M80-M4 but I'm not sure on the compatibility of all the chipsets.

 

I know that the southbridge (VIA VT8237) and audio chipset (Realtek ALC655) our both confirmed to work. However the other chipsets are listed as neither compatible or incompatible, so I'm really unsure. The unknown chipsets are as follows:

 

Northbridge: VIA P4M800

Onboard Video: S3 Graphics UniChrome 2D/3D

LAN: VIA VT6103

 

If anyone has any information regarding those chipsets or a recommendation for a motherboard $60 or under which will be compatible that would be great. Thanks in advance.

[vhmp]

Do You solve your problem? I Need some informations about BIOSTAR P4M80-M4, anyone hear knows about them? I have a computer whith this mb... please suggestions...! =]

[NikoNiko]

Do You solve your problem? I Need some informations about BIOSTAR P4M80-M4, anyone hear knows about them? I have a computer whith this mb... please suggestions...! =]

 

 

ASRock p4vm800 (via chipset,CeleronD, Maxtor ide hdd) - install ok, but after rebooting macos freezing in blue screen and "starting macos" message.

 

Not found solution yet.

[jpincheira]

hi!

if anyone had this mobo working normally, please, post it!

Thanks!

[diplomat]

I have a Biostar P4M80-M4 and just somewhat successfully installed 10.4.8 JaS SSE2/SSE3 AMD & Intel (I tried JaS SSE3 Intel Only, but it would hang at the end of installation at the restart window and never restart). Though I did have to boot off the SSE3 disc first to format the hard drive because SSE2/3 disc couldn't properly run Disk Utility for some reason. I then got a 'something went wrong during installation, try again'-type error during installation (with SSE2/3 disc), so I re-burned it at the slowest speed (because this was a similar issue & resolution I usually have when installing Mac OS X for Apple machines) and customized the installation and selected the JaS packages I needed (Intel, Nvidia and I forget what else, but make sure loginwindow is installed) and deselected the language and printer driver packages (they take too long and are useless to me). During the GUI installation my keyboard (standard Dell PS/2 keyboard) didn't work but my mouse did (standard Dell optical wheel mouse) which is all you need really to install (I had to leave the hard drive Untitled after formatting, couldn't type anything).

 

It installs, restarts and the keyboard nor mouse work this time. I unplugged the kbrd and mouse but only the kbrd worked so I completed the Wizard using Tab key to navigate between fields, menus & buttons and Space bar to select/click. Upon reaching the desktop I get three error messages basically saying the drivers (or whatever they're called) pre-installed don't work (I'm assuming from JaS' custom packages).

 

So at the moment my sound card (using built-in sound card), mouse, keyboard (without re-plugging) don't work and it appears USB and NIC (using built-in NIC) doesn't work, but my Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 card does (I'm getting a widescreen resolution, not sure which).

 

Now I'm off to find ways to get these things working. At least I can navigate to and launch Terminal with the keyboard for now. First I'm gonna try a PS/2 mouse...

 

EDIT: got PS/2 Keyboard to work automatically on startup using Tom H's fix (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=21952#), but then it stopped working again after a couple of reboots and after I installed the USB 2.0 extensions (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=21487)

 

EDIT: got only left channel working on sound card after installing AC97 drivers (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/3rdPartyDrivers). plus it says no info on the Audio section of System Profiler eventhough there's some sound. weird

 

EDIT: got the NIC working using Pinxue's drivers (http://www.pinxue.net/mac/viarhine.html), but the speeds are just horrible... took about 2-3 minutes to transfer a 3 meg file (i'm on a 100 megabit network)

 

EDIT: got USB 2.0 working great so far (http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/download/usbdebug.html)! Mouse, Media Center remote receiver and flash drives working nice... (install the regular package NOT the one that says *log* in it's name)

Edited March 18, 2007 by diplomat

[kuja]

There are some things (just small things) that need to be done, but the Biostar P4M80-M4 is on the good side of things and should be considered extremely compatible.

 

The only thing you may want to do is buy a separate network card rather than using the onboard Rhine II because of the underdeveloped driver. At least, that's what I ended up doing. Everything else (PATA drives, SATA drives etc) all work fine.

[ch4047]

I have a Biostar P4M80-M4 and just somewhat successfully installed 10.4.8 JaS SSE2/SSE3 AMD & Intel (I tried JaS SSE3 Intel Only, but it would hang at the end of installation at the restart window and never restart). Though I did have to boot off the SSE3 disc first to format the hard drive because SSE2/3 disc couldn't properly run Disk Utility for some reason. I then got a 'something went wrong during installation, try again'-type error during installation (with SSE2/3 disc), so I re-burned it at the slowest speed (because this was a similar issue & resolution I usually have when installing Mac OS X for Apple machines) and customized the installation and selected the JaS packages I needed (Intel, Nvidia and I forget what else, but make sure loginwindow is installed) and deselected the language and printer driver packages (they take too long and are useless to me). During the GUI installation my keyboard (standard Dell PS/2 keyboard) didn't work but my mouse did (standard Dell optical wheel mouse) which is all you need really to install (I had to leave the hard drive Untitled after formatting, couldn't type anything).

 

It installs, restarts and the keyboard nor mouse work this time. I unplugged the kbrd and mouse but only the kbrd worked so I completed the Wizard using Tab key to navigate between fields, menus & buttons and Space bar to select/click. Upon reaching the desktop I get three error messages basically saying the drivers (or whatever they're called) pre-installed don't work (I'm assuming from JaS' custom packages).

 

So at the moment my sound card (using built-in sound card), mouse, keyboard (without re-plugging) don't work and it appears USB and NIC (using built-in NIC) doesn't work, but my Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 card does (I'm getting a widescreen resolution, not sure which).

 

Now I'm off to find ways to get these things working. At least I can navigate to and launch Terminal with the keyboard for now. First I'm gonna try a PS/2 mouse...

 

EDIT: got PS/2 Keyboard to work automatically on startup using Tom H's fix (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=21952#), but then it stopped working again after a couple of reboots and after I installed the USB 2.0 extensions (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=21487)

 

EDIT: got only left channel working on sound card after installing AC97 drivers (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/3rdPartyDrivers). plus it says no info on the Audio section of System Profiler eventhough there's some sound. weird

 

EDIT: got the NIC working using Pinxue's drivers (http://www.pinxue.net/mac/viarhine.html), but the speeds are just horrible... took about 2-3 minutes to transfer a 3 meg file (i'm on a 100 megabit network)

 

EDIT: got USB 2.0 working great so far (http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/download/usbdebug.html)! Mouse, Media Center remote receiver and flash drives working nice... (install the regular package NOT the one that says *log* in it's name)

 

Hey diplomat'

i have the biostar p4m80-m4 motherboard and i would like to ask you what drivers you've used at kalyway 10.5.2 method,i've almost tried everything and the computer restarts all the time.

Thank You very much