OSX only setup

[sulfo]

Hi guys,

 

after getting some cash for christmas I was thinking of "uprading" my system, ie. sell my athlon 64 and mb and instead get a D915GAGL mb and a celeron d336 or (if have enough money left a p4). I read that both are fully compatible with 10.4.3, does this mean i can install it from the unpatched dvd right away?

 

plz tell me if i'm right here, because if yes then i'll go out buying this stuff the next day...

 

greetz

 

tom

[Ouch]

You still need to patch the DVD to circumvent apple's TPM security code which prevents the original DVD from installing on non-apple hardware. It makes the installer check for the prescence of a chip on the motherboard which standard intel 915 chipsets don't have. The patch stops this check from happening.

 

If you get that system remember you will also need to enable the CPUID and NX/XD Bit in the bios to stop the installer from just rebooting before loading. I didn't realise this at first and it took me an hour of bios tinkering before i discovered it!

Edited December 28, 2005 by 0uch!p0tat0

[sulfo]

first, thanks for the quick answer!

 

Patching the iso with the Anti TPM should be no problem with Ultra ISO I think.

 

Sorry if this double checking but I wanna be absolutely positve that this works: If understand correctly: If i patch the iso and activate CPUID and NX in the BIOS i can install from DVD to (unformatted) HDD, just like I would install XP for example?

 

Greetz

 

Tom

[fallingup]

have you tried installing on your present computer? your specs seem fine...

[sulfo]

yep, i have it running on my machine however only in safe mode, networking works, but thats about it, no sound no apps plus my father needs a tax deductible urgently

[Slip]

Sounds Similar.

 

I went for the ASROCK 915 Dual board and a celeron 2.66 with EMT 64. Everything works. Don't have a firewire device yet to try the Lucent chip pci card. I picked up a SATA drive on Boxing day and copied the whole install over prgs and all from a ATA drive , bootable after choosing start disk in preference's. I'ts nice with my Lexar Jump Drive to move files around to PC world etc. Never figured out the passwd permission thing with samba not connecting.

 

As for whats next will they release 10.4.4 to intel dev's ? if not could be the end of the road. Like The Prophetess says might not be much point to a 915 board. Could wait and see what gets released. Unless you have use for a legacy system.

 

I probably won't jump on the Mac bandwagon mainly re: cost and applications. Until I have a look where its' going In the meantime hope for a 10.4.4

 

PS U didn't hear it from me . someone else brought this up Ha ha

[Gdfath3r]

Hi guys,

 

after getting some cash for christmas I was thinking of "uprading" my system, ie. sell my athlon 64 and mb and instead get a D915GAGL mb and a celeron d336 or (if have enough money left a p4). I read that both are fully compatible with 10.4.3, does this mean i can install it from the unpatched dvd right away?

 

plz tell me if i'm right here, because if yes then i'll go out buying this stuff the next day...

 

greetz

 

tom

 

You going to be sorry if you sell your AMD64.....is a way faster than Intel, also less heat.

You have a Venice which is perfectly compatibile with Mac...so no point to do so....try to install 10.4.3 8f1111 with original kernel....is gonna work everything ( except probably SATA and gigaLAN)

[sulfo]

k so my cpu is fine, what about my mainboard though?

 

CPU

- Socket 939 for 64-bit AMD Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 processor

- Support AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core CPU

- FSB 1000MHz (2.0 GT/s)

- Supports HyperTransport technology

 

Chipset

- Integrated Single Chip: ULi M1689

Hybrid Booster - CPU Frequency Stepless control

- ASRock U-COP

- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G)

 

Memory

- Supports Dual Channel DDR400 memory

- DIMM slots: 4

- Max. capacity: 4GB

 

Slots

- 1 x AGP8X/4X slot , 1.5V

- 3 x PCI slots( PCI 2.3 compliance)

 

VGA

- n/a

 

Audio

- Realtek ALC850 7.1 channel AC'97 audio codec

 

LAN

- Realtek RTL8201BL 10/100 Ethernet LAN PHY

- 802.3u, WOL supported

 

Connector

2 x SeialATA 1.5Gb/s connectors, supports RAID,0,1,JBOD

- 2 x ATA 133/100/66 IDE connectors (supports 4 x IDE devices)

- 1 x Floppy connector

- CPU/Chassis FAN connectors

- 20 pin ATX power connector

- 4 pin +12V ATX power connector

- Power LED connector

- CD audio in header

- Front panel audio connector

- 2 x USB 2.0 port pin header (to support 4 USB 2.0 ports)

Rear Panel I/O ASRock 8 CH I/O

- 4 x USB2.0 ports

- 1 x RJ45 LAN port

- 1 x Serial port (COM1)

- 1 x PS2 Keyboard connector

- 1 x PS2 Mouse connectors

- 1 x Parallel port (LPT1)

- 2 x Audio ports ( Line In/Out, Mic In) - 1 x Game port

BIOS Feature - 2Mb AMI BIOS with ACPI, SM BIOS 3.0, PnP

 

my graphics card is a radeon 9800 pro (i read that u can get qe working for that right?)

sound is not detected at the moment, but maybe editing the kext file would solve that?

i dont really have use for sata and the mb doesnt even have giga lan so thats no problem...

 

everybody agree that i should be able to run a working (ie. internet, office, sound, video playback) setup of 10.4.3 81111 on my machine?

 

greetz tom

[chelhydra]

everybody agree that i should be able to run a working (ie. internet, office, sound, video playback) setup of 10.4.3 81111 on my machine?

 

greetz tom

 

Don't change your Athlon64 for a celeron, it's like half the speed. There is no guarantee that 915G mobos will work with future releases.

Be patient, we will soon know..

 

p.s. My Venice is running OSX perfectly fine (except for QE and CG - nvidia, vga but your 9800pro has QE-CG support)

Edited December 29, 2005 by chelhydra

[sulfo]

ok after reading up i've gone away from the idea of buying a cel.

 

when i'm home next week (im at my parents right now) i'm gonna try 10.4.3 and see if i get it running without safe mode and with sound (the onboard sound i guess can be done from what i've read). wehen it does i'll share the x bench score...

 

i'm curious whether my radeon 9800 pro will really work "out of the box" with 10.4.3, with 4.1 its just basic vesa support....

 

neway wish u guys a good start into the new year and thanks for all the help. if a problem with my specs pops someone to the eye i'd be glad if u let me know!

 

greetz Tom

[linear]

Just thougt I mention that I originally had a celeron D 340, and this worked great with the first leaked osx86. But soon after I had everything working 8f1099 and hten 8f11111 came out that required PAE (physical address extensions). My celeron defiantly did not have this. I ended up selling it on ebay and getting a 3GHz Prescott, and have been happy ever since.