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Hey Guys,

 

Sorry to bother everyone but I am ready to jump in and build a nasty MAC. I've had two others prior to this and were pretty much out of the box on the motherboard.

 

My question is I was wondering if someone could give me details on the status of these features and this board when working with Leopard. Please feel free to answer any that you know. Not all have to be known :) I've checked the WIKI and the other post on the board but it's up in the air when it comes to definite answers.

 

1. SATA (# that can be used on the system and are there and issues with some set to ACHI and others just set to SATA)

2. Sleep / Shutdown - I read that this board has had issues and I've also heard that 10.5.1 or a bios update fixes that.

3. Lan - I read that the Lan works out of the box, but I've also read you need a Realink Driver to install as well.

4. Audio - I read that a HD Audio driver is needed but possibly Kext editing too?

5. W/lan - No info found on this yet....

 

 

Any answers/additional information would be greatly appreciated. I hear this is one of the most compatible boards and would like to verify before I build a (wet) dream machine :).

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1. SATA (# that can be used on the system and are there and issues with some set to ACHI and others just set to SATA)

Kalyway supports the JMicron AHCI SATA Controller. if you setup the bios from IDE to AHCI you can install.

 

2. Sleep / Shutdown - I read that this board has had issues and I've also heard that 10.5.1 or a bios update fixes that.

Sleep and Shutdown works for me.

 

3. Lan - I read that the Lan works out of the box, but I've also read you need a Realink Driver to install as well.

The Realtek1000.kext is better, than orginal Realtek.kext because it fixes the Bonjour ability

 

4. Audio - I read that a HD Audio driver is needed but possibly Kext editing too?

Azalia comes with the Install ( if you have a Soundmax AD198x), for Sound out you need to edit VendorID, rest will not work

 

5. W/lan - No info found on this yet....

Since i dont have WLan cant tell you.

Thanks so much for the reply. :P

 

LMAO I'm actually looking to build the same exact computer you are but plan on over clocking and running the dual monitor as well.

 

Do you know if anyone has made a pre-package with kext's for this board yet? (lan, sound)

 

TIA.

the biggest trouble seems to be the grafic card.

 

i have a 8600gts, that works relativly fine with nvinject + beta kexts from 10.5.2 pre release ( some scroll errors, where the monitor doesnt update well ) but dual monitor works ( quasi out of the "nvinject"box).

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