jimmyboy Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Has anyone had success with installing on the dell XPS 720 680i Mobo? any install guides? I tried installing to an IDE drive but can never boot, flashing cursor. I've tried all the recommended things for 680i boards in general. No luck. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifolon Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Same here man, very odd...Please anyone? Has anyone had success with installing on the dell XPS 720 680i Mobo? any install guides? I tried installing to an IDE drive but can never boot, flashing cursor. I've tried all the recommended things for 680i boards in general. No luck. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoocha Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Hi Guys ! i tried also all the tricks i could to install Leo Kalyway on a XPS 720 and failed so far... even with the right Bios Tweaking ( i think ) and with the right DVD it always fails at one point or an other... could somebody please give us some hints ? or more simply did anybody here manage to install Leo on this machine ? Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicrhombus Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 I got a working install using iAktos v1.0i r3 on my XPS 720. Right now I don't have LAN or audio and I get random system crashes unless it boot using (cpus=1). Still working to solve these issues. Mysticus guide did the trick for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamb0ne Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Got my XPS 710 99% working.. only things that dont work are Sleep/ Speedstep. @ Vichrom: are you using PATA DVD drive The 590 sli board and 680i are very similar in terms of issues, my frnd has a 680i board and we have the exact same issue in hackintosh. im using Kalyway and my system never crashes. i think the mysticus DVD is the issue with crashing. MY sound is Sigmatel 9227 and it works allright, Ethernet is broadcom 57xx and its working fine but get drops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicrhombus Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Got my XPS 710 99% working.. only things that dont work are Sleep/ Speedstep. @ Vichrom: are you using PATA DVD drive The 590 sli board and 680i are very similar in terms of issues, my frnd has a 680i board and we have the exact same issue in hackintosh. im using Kalyway and my system never crashes. i think the mysticus DVD is the issue with crashing. MY sound is Sigmatel 9227 and it works allright, Ethernet is broadcom 57xx and its working fine but get drops. Hamb0ne, Yes. I did use a PATA DVD drive. My SATA DVD drive didn't work. Have you updated to 10.5.2? Are you using any special kernels? I'm curious to see try a different kernel and see if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamb0ne Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 yea updated to 10.5.2 with no probs and im using the 10.5.2 Nforce kernel. the 10.5.2 speedstep kernel works also but im not using it. which kernel are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicrhombus Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 yea updated to 10.5.2 with no probs and im using the 10.5.2 Nforce kernel. the 10.5.2 speedstep kernel works also but im not using it. which kernel are you using? Yeah. I am still using the kernel that came in the iAktoas iso. Tonight or tomorrow I will get around to updating to 10.5.2 and the Nforce kernel. Seems like that is the logical next step. I will post if it works out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticus C* Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Yeah. I am still using the kernel that came in the iAktoas iso. Tonight or tomorrow I will get around to updating to 10.5.2 and the Nforce kernel. Seems like that is the logical next step. I will post if it works out. iatkos is using nforce patched kernel already by kabyl... you can try the guide on my post to update to 10.5.2... also there are couple of extra kernels from kabyl, for nforce ... with hpet, w/o hpet, no efi, efi... etc.. PM if you need extra kernels... @jimmyboy: if you wanna test it out, PM me, and our topic is here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=87901 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engsmart Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 My xps 720 works only in : -v -x mode I tried several combinations and till now nothing. Any help? I'm using Iaktos v2.0i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewjacks0n Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 My Dell XPS 720 works well enough. I installed using a USB dvd drive, XxX 10.5.6.. All is working well, including my Nvidia 9800GTX However network consistently drops the connection under "heavy" load. I have tried a RTL8139 and RTL8169 card, with the same problem. It seems the connection will "last" longer when i am using the 9.5.0 VooDoo kernel. any ideas on the ethernet dropping issue? I am going to try a USB ethernet adapter this evening thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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