paul_b Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Can somebody please tell me what the best installation DVD and method is for my AMD machine? It is Specification AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 Mainboard Model NF4UK8AA Northbridge NVIDIA nForce4 rev. A3 Southbridge NVIDIA nForce4 MCP rev. A3 Please help? Is it Zephyroth or are there any other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaredh Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I'm using the Zephyroth distribution, but I'm running into problems with formatting my SATA drive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUCLEaR Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I'm having trouble making it writable. I need to inject the new nForce kext into the distro, but I can't do it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Specification AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64 Mainboard Model NF4UK8AA Northbridge NVIDIA nForce4 rev. A3 Southbridge NVIDIA nForce4 MCP rev. A3 The nForce4's are well supported, but that's not even close to everything you need to consider. What's the LAN chipset? What video card are you using? Drives? SATA? PATA? Sound codec? Firewire? Keyboard and mouse? Do you have a seperate drive for the OSx86 install? Are you going to try to partition & install on an existing drive? etc etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helfire Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Be sure to check out the known issues, would have saved me 2 hours if I knew about it earlier! http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issues Good luck. My only problem was nforce4 Lan, but i have dual lan so i just used the 2nd one! Zeph also has Rev2 in the works, if you get suck maybe wait for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombuzal Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 If you run into problems with SATA on 10.5.1 AMD and have access to another MacOS box or VMWare installation try this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_b Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Thanks for the replies. I have the following hardware: drives:x2 SATA II and x1 PATA graphics:nvidia geforce 6500 network:wireless WPN311 sound chipset:ALC850 I currently have 10.4.8 installed(without the wireless working) but I want to install 10.5. Is it worth it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombuzal Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 It should run alright with the updated SATA drivers, if your NVIDIA gfx card is on-board you won't have full graphics support though... It may be worth waiting for the 2nd release of the Zeph's AMD ISO if you really want to upgrade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnimac Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 If you can easily get your hands on Zeph's AMD DVD then I'd suggest having a go with that and seeing how it installs etc itl give you some ideas on what you need to do to get leopard running properly on your system in later releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_b Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 Be sure to check out the known issues, would have saved me 2 hours if I knew about it earlier!http://osx86.wikidot.com/known-issuesGood luck. My only problem was nforce4 Lan, but i have dual lan so i just used the 2nd one! Zeph also has Rev2 in the works, if you get suck maybe wait for it.Thanks helfire for this. Going through thesesorted my problem .How do I sort my graphics card out! I only seem to be able to have 1024 x 768! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_b Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 I have sorted my graphic resolution. Now how do I make the graphics smooth and not jerky!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snerler Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I have the same board and it works really well with tiger. I think im going to wait for zeph's 2.0 release before upgrading though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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