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Here's an update of my recent experiences. In short, success.

 

My hardware:

 

Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

Intel E2160 Pentium Dual Core 2x1.8Ghz 800FSB (overclocked to 9x333=3.0GHz)

Arctic Cooling AC-FRZ-7P Freezer 7 Pro Socket 775 Processor Cooler

Asus 7300GT Silent 256MB DDR2 DVI HDTV PCI-E Graphics Card

4GB: 4x1GB OCZ PC2-6400C4 (running at full speed, 400MHz)

200GB Seagate SATA 7200.7

Pioneer DVR-112 PATA

Antec Black NSK4480B ATX/MATX Mini Tower - With 380W EarthWatts PSU

USB mouse

USB Apple Keyboard - the new aluminum one.

 

I installed Kalyway 10.5.1

BIOS settings a mostly default but changed the SATA mode from Legacy IDE to Native. AHCI was not enabled.

 

Booted from the DVD, used Disk Utility to make a partition (Chose GUID). Make use it's allowing the full size of the disk, if it only says 128GB there's something wrong which you should sort out being going forward.

Quitted Disk Utility and continued with the install.

I hit the customise button and selected the top two options for Vanilla install, I selected the nVidia 'desktop' drivers and chose the GUID option at the bottom. Didn't do anything with LAN or Sound.

 

The install took a total of around 12 minutes. If it takes much longer - more like an hour it's likely there's something wrong.

 

When finished, take the DVD out and reset. I didn't need the DVD anymore.

 

For audio I installed a few things, some I now know were wrong - the last thing I did before it worked was install these two kext:

http://www.hardwr.fr/files/macos/alc889a.zip

From this thread.

To install the sound kext I used Kext Helper - found through spotlight.

 

For the LAN I used Realtek's own driver:

ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip

ftp://202.65.194.212/cn/nic/RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip

ftp://61.56.86.122/cn/nic/RTGMac_v1.1.6.zip

From this thread.

 

And that's about it. The system shuts down and resets fine - haven't tried sleep yet.

It's really fast, snappy and responsive and looks fantastic on my 20" TFT at 1610x1050.

 

I already had the SATA hard disc and the PATA DVD-RW spare, so just had to buy the other bits. Total cost was about £285.

 

Here's my XBench result. Note the 7200.7 HDD is really quite old now, it says 2002 on the top so it might be puling the score down a little bit.

 

XBench1.png

 

Finally - thanks to the great folk at Insanelymac for making this possible! Hope this is some small help to those coming after me.

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After bit more experimenting it seems things aren't as perfect as I thought.

 

Sleep doesn't work - it seems to close the OS okay, but can't be woken up. Shutdown doesn't properly shut down the system, the OS closes but the motherboard is still powered and the fans are still spinning. Reset works fine.

 

Dual monitor on the 7300GT works perfectly.

 

Finder doesn't see my Vista computer or its shared folders. Internet works and by using an FTP server on the windows box I'm able to transfer data at full speed so the connection is physically okay. Just not sure why finder can't see it.

 

There is an issue with high memory use. This has never effected me in normal use, in fact the only way I can recreate the problem is with the memory test of Highload. This problem is detailed here: Kernel Panic over 3.5GB Memory Usage

 

Outstanding issues

  • Being able to shut down in a 'clean' way, although using the button isn't the end of the world!
  • Being able to sleep.
  • Not suffering from the ~3.5GB memory problem, even if I can only create the problem artificially.

Finder doesn't see my Vista computer or its shared folders. Internet works and by using an FTP server on the windows box I'm able to transfer data at full speed so the connection is physically okay. Just not sure why finder can't see it.

There's an issue with the Realtek drivers. There's a patch, but it causes other problems.

In this thread (http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=77165), ls8 says in the first post:

The onboard ethernet card (based on Realtek 8111 chip) works out of the box in Leopard. Works, but not perfect. Internet works, but you cannot browse your network neighborhood computers (you cannot access shared folders, cannot use shared screen) and other computers in your netwrok cannot see your machine. You can install Realtek R1000 v.1.04 which solves this issue, but network doesn't work after wakeup from sleep. Yesterday I found that the problem only occurs if you use DHCP for network configuration. Network works perfect (even after wake from sleep) if you set your IP configuration statically. It should be no problem in most cases.
Thanks for the info. I think I tried those drivers in the first place and they didn't work. Can you tell me exactly how I should go about installing Realtek R1000 v.1.04?

Download from here https://sourceforge.net/projects/realtekr1000/

I haven't done this myself, so search the forums to check it's going in the right place.

Install by copying the kext from the build/Release directory to your /System/Library directory. Then:

sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

sudo reboot

 

To remove:

sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/RealtekR1000.kext

sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

sudo reboot

 

Fingers crossed I got this right!

How are so many people getting this to work?

 

My DVD won't even boot! It hangs at the bootloader everytime. I booted it using -v too to see what it said:

 

It stops at "Loading HFS+ File [mach_kernel from 42304807]

/

"

 

and then it gives me an EBIOS read error. wtf?!?!

  • 2 weeks later...

:wacko::( i'M still getting the system config file '/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found error

 

it's driving me nuts, i've tried everything to. At one point, it did install and i had a working system for about 4 hours. then i screwed up a kernel install and was forced to reinstall and have gotten this error ever since.

 

specs:

P35c-ds3r

intel core 2 duo

radeon 1600

western digital 200 gb sata hd

pioneer ide dvdr

 

 

::edit::

I attempted using the 10.5.1 disk and received the same error, unless someone has a new idea that i haven't tried, i'm going to give up

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