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Im going to be building a new computer and I want to make sure I get a motherboard that will be as fully compatible as possible. Im using AMD so it has to be socket AM2.

 

Anyone else use a similar setup that can recommend something??

 

My AMD machine does not have any problem with Leo. After fixing a few issues (LAN,USB,firewire) everything is working perfectly.What I have to say:almost every machine will have some issues to fix, so it worth to try...

Ok, I had thought I'd have to all but give up on any nVidia based motherboards for

AMD systems. The ONLY nVidia based mobo I got working with Hackintosh was an

nForce 3 based unit once. Every time I try to use anything more recent than that

chipset I run into problems! The drivers are written by 'medevil' or somesuch as I

recall... on the nVidia 570 SLI, I get the same problem as I do on the others which

is that the medevil drivers will see the SATA connected disks just fine but refuse

to let me write to them during installation! I go to run DiskUtility and it sees them but

it just soft-hangs during the partitioning (you continue to see the progress bar do

pretty things but it NEVER completes). I've had this problem on nVidia 570 systems

(both ASUS and MSI), on an nVidia 4(2200) based Tyan mobo (S2877), and a higher

end nVidia 3600 based TYAN mobo. What am I doing wrong?! I've tried ToH's

Leopard (10.5.1/SSE2-SSE3) and a couple of late Tiger installs. All say they load

the nforce support from medevil but have the same issues (the 3600 was almost a

complete loss as it stated it likely wouldn't be able to talk to the ethernets despite

seeing them and I wasn't disappointed after doing an install onto an IDE disk in

dumb AppleGenericIDE mode). Thanks.

 

Btw, what's with the Leopard/TOH-10.5.1 install forgoing any VIA-ATA support?! lol.

The AppleVIAATA.kext file is missing! To get this gong on my MSI 6702E mobo I

have to boot up the installer and 'kextload' that driver from a spare IDE hard disk

before it'll see my SATA disk to do the install (and of course because AppleVIAATA

got loaded after the fact, the DVDROM drive on the IDE channel is operating in

way-slow mode because the Generic ATA driver got loaded first).

 

Any comments/suggestions appreciated :)

 

-Mike

I had the same problem with Leopard....

 

 

I'm posting this from my nForce 570 SLI chipset (AMD k9 SLI) hackintosh....

 

 

The main problem I saw was that the installer for LEopard puts a copy of the nForce.kexts in a different place than other installs....

 

 

I cleaned my disk by dumping Extensions.mkext and removing the ApplenForce.kext *AND* Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins/AppleNForce.kext

 

Then I put the Extensions.mkext back into my install dvd using Transmac for Windblowze

 

I also deleted the AppleNForce.kext from the root of my install dvd (/System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins *AND* /System/Library/Extensions/AppleNForce.kext)

 

 

Basically I made the one in the Extensions.mkext the *ONLY* one used, it was loading an older driver before the new one, causing the read only problem of the old driver....

 

A lot of ppl have had problems because of this...

 

Hope it helps someone

 

I would say any nforce5 chipset and up shouldn't have problems using MeDevil's nForce driver for a hackintosh....

 

He is working on a new driver to add some performance increases, and possible RAID support....

In response to m0rb0's post:

 

Okay, WHICH is the older driver that is causing the problem? lol. Is there a way to do this without having to entirely remaster

that whole disk? (although the ability to do that would make installs of ToH's 10.5.1 AMD go a heckuvalot more smoothly on

VIA based motherboards, put BACK in AppleVIAATA.kext, why the heck was it left out?! geez). In this case, for the nVidia

support, once the initial installer GUI is up, I could launch a terminal window perhaps and kextunload the offending bad kext(s)

and then load the better one with kextload, then go into Disk Utility? I do something similar to make up for the lack of

AppleVIAATA on the aforementioned leopard load by launching a terminal window during the install GUI and kextload'ing

that kext dynamically from another source so it then gets seen by Disk Utility.

 

Thanks.

Some people, based on their own experience, advise others not to go the way they never gone by themselves. Others just like being alternative and don't afraid to experiment. If someone asks about AMD motherboard what's the reason to advise to choose Intel?

 

I personally have Zephyroth 10.5.1 up and running on ASUS M2A-VM and ATI Radeon HD2600XT with almost no problems.

For those, who interested - wisit:

 

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