ced1610 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 after serveral version of osx, (with succes for all...!!!) my old P5ld2-vm 1.0 with Pentium D3 Ghz seem to be out of order... what king of motherboard, could be also stable and close to the original Mac motherboard ??? with my Asus past, i was obliged to buy an asus motherboard, with ,as far as possible, a Q6600... i have choosen the P5k one with 0603 Bios, and i have listed the small problems has to circumvent (we all was at 10.4.10 time...) - jmicron not reconised by tiger... -atansic gigabit ethernetnot recognised... -alc883 not much used by Insanelymac community at this time... - and the major big problem : ICH9... impossible to install from an ide dvd drive.... after downgrading bios to 0406, ich9 allowed me to activate AHCI on SATA and on Jmicron controler..., at this time, nothing could stop me to reach the osx86 paradise... thank's to taruga, i could resolve the sound problem, by adding a 2 out sound system to this osx TIGER... By adding in bios AHCI on Jmicron, although I cannot boot on Cd, the reader nevertheless was recognized by Toast..., it was impossible to connect sata dd on the black ports of the mother board... but only a month later, freedom... i have donwloded 2 version of Leopard...Iatkos and kaliway... after a few test of iatkos :censored2: , and after installing Kaliway, my choice was done, Kaliway is the best version for my P5K... it include Natively al those stufs that bored me on Tiger, all except Atansic ... -Ich9 recognised... :D -jmicron natively recognised (the SATA black port too...) :D -no need of AHCI in bios... -alc883 in/out spdif,in/out jacks... (natively too !!!!) :D -EFI v8... with vanilla kernel... (first time for me...) :D but in this heaven, a small problem remain... my open gl was attached at 1/10 of it's potensial... systeme info told me pci express 1x... after installing a lot of graphic drivers, without results,i decided to upgrade my bios to 0805... what a boost... system info tell me now pci express 16x... and it's not the same... be careful with those old bios, and i hope that this will be able to help somebody... :angel: a small test with OpenMark tell you how it is important 16x on pci Express port... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quadracerx Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hi...Im building a IntelMac too....so the plain vanilla ASUS P5K full ATX Motherboard will work with 10.5? Does anyone know if it will work with 10.4 as well? Im having trouble downloading the Kaliway 10.5 image...anyone know where the best place to get it is?Thanks....Hi...Im building a IntelMac too....so the plain vanilla ASUS P5K full ATX Motherboard will work with 10.5? Does anyone know if it will work with 10.4 as well? Im having trouble downloading the Kaliway 10.5 image...anyone know where the best place to get it is?Thanks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patroche Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 P5KR here, bios 408, 8800GT detected as 16x too xbench gives me rather low results (275 fps opengl) don't know if it's related to the bios, or just the drivers being beta yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 It's related to xbench. It sucks, don't use it. Any other bench will show you that the 8800GT is one of the fastest card on OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 That's only for laptops. Power management are messed up on hackintosh lappies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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