mac.inc Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 hey.. I am a first time MAC user... got myself a jas os x tiger 10.4.8 for intel .. installed it ... but with no sound , no LAN support.. fiddled arnd on it for sm time then uninstallled it... cuz i cudnt go online. 1 more thing ... i had to remove da 7600GS graphic card cuz da monitor kept on switchin on and off every 1 second.. so OSX ran on the Onboard 915 GMA. this was 2 days back as of now.. installed Windows XP SP2 my rig is Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ HT Intel 915GAV Motherboard 1.5GB of RAM Nvidia 7600GS PCIE 256MB Graphics card Seagate 120GB SATA HDD Now i m thinkin of puttin XP and OSX Tiger in for dual boot .. i went thru da forum topics .. but its confusin considerin da fact dat i m first time MAC user... so wat shud i do to get it right in da first try itself.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76451-first-time-mac-user/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
anton7350 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 hi with ur sound and lan problems u just need to find the right kexts depending on ur sound card/motherboard and there are loads of forums telling you how to get duel boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76451-first-time-mac-user/#findComment-540266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac.inc Posted December 17, 2007 Author Share Posted December 17, 2007 k.. i'll search for it.. thnx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76451-first-time-mac-user/#findComment-540834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac.inc Posted December 18, 2007 Author Share Posted December 18, 2007 i got XP and Tiger to dual boot... perfectly... used Zay's Wiki ... thnx Zay..now i've configure LAN, AUDIO and da GFX card...also 1 more thing ... as in case on Windows ther's an auto update feature..da same is da case wit MAC...but as in windows ther was dis {censored} WGA dat got thru automatic updates and irrespective of ur copy of XP being Genuine or Pirated .. it said it was pirated....Duh!!does nethin like this hapn in Mac ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76451-first-time-mac-user/#findComment-541804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac.inc Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 ohk... installed 10.4.9 update... along wit it i also installed a couple of other updates dat i found on a single zip file ... awsm stuff... got Sound i/p and o/p , LAN , Onboard Graphics Driver. The only thing left is my Nvidia 7600GS . it'll only b a matter of time until i get dat wrkin too... thnx for all da help .... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76451-first-time-mac-user/#findComment-542862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac.inc Posted December 20, 2007 Author Share Posted December 20, 2007 so afta diggin up hw to make my Nvidia 7600GS compatible wit OS X Tiger, i finally managed to get it right.... but it says Core Image and Quartz Extreme is not supported... i've read posts in this forum related to Nvidia 7600GS and their cards are able to supprt CI & QE.... i m stuck... i've done everythin as told... any 1 care to kik me on da correct path... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/76451-first-time-mac-user/#findComment-544425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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