AMD Systems

[Synthology]

I'm strictly Audio based, so Logic Pro, Reason and Live are essential.

So far, so great:

 

AMD 64 4000+

2 GB 3200 RAM

LG DVD Burner - Combo Drive

IDE PATA WD 160GB

Gigabyte SLI MB

Nvidia Chipset

Nvidia GForce 7600 GT OC - Macvidia crashes my system (boot.plist resolution set to 1280x1024x32)

USB 2.0 Card - Working

AC97 Audio - Working

 

Running 10.4.7 (Inital install 10.4.6 JaS)

Logic Pro 7.2.2 - Working Great

Plug-in List: (All Universal Binary)

Izotope - pHATmatik Pro, Ozone 3, Spectron, Trash, iDrum

Linplug RMIV 4.1.3

Reason 3.0.5 - Working Great

Ableton Live 5.2 - Working Great

 

MIDI -

AXIOM 61

Oxygen 8 (Old Version)

Firewire 410

 

That's all I have tested so far. Looking forward to testing Stylus RMX on it, but I don't want to waste a legitimate registration on an AMD rig.

 

My Plans are to build an Intel Chipset Conroe System with an ATI X1300, 4x 250GB SATA drives and run dual 20" Cinema Displays.

Which I do own because I am looking to replace my Dual G5 2.5gHz.

 

For the record: The AMD 4000+ feels snappier and a bit more number crunchier than the Dual G5.

Oh yeah, and everything except my Maxtor Ultra 133 Controller card is working perfectly. I'll never see an Apple Store the same again.

 

 

Synthology

[Alec S.]

So get a Intel then. You know Intel <33> Macs =]

I guess I will DO it soon. I'm tired to feel discomfort with AMD X2 chip...

[jonyb7]

Sempron 3000+ AM2 @ 2900Mhz

DFI INFINITY NF ULTRAII-M2

2x512 Kingmax DDR667 @ 900Mhz

Gigabyte X1600 Pro SilentPipe II

250 GB Sata II Hitachi

80GB Seagate + Icy Box

40GB Ata 100 WD

DVD-RW Nec 3540A

LCD Samsung 19'' SM940B

 

Working fully except onboard Lan, Xbench score 130

[ecotopian]

My Sig says it all - Am looking at getting a PCIe Raid card (see here) for video editing - Not booting from... - now if I could just get my onboard LAN (Marvell 88E1116) to work I would be oh so very happy...

[tuukka H]

Did anyone manage to get sleep working on AMD and 10.4.8? Or is that option only with intel cpu?

[inter981]

i can't install 10.4.8 because my graphics card (Geforce XFX 6600GT) but it works perfect with v 10.4.5.

 

I just have purchased a nVIDIA 7600GT Superclocked 256Mb DDR3 PCIe... let's cross the fingers hoping v.10.4.8 will work with that one...

 

my specs:

AMD Athlon64 x2 4600+ 939 (OS X 10.4.5 detects an AMD 3,00 Ghz processor)

MSI K8N Diamond

4,00 Gb Ram DDR400 Dual- Channel (Kingston)

SB Live! 24bit integrated ~ it doesn't works at all... :-(

XFX 6600GT (it will grow soon to a 7600GT superclocked)

2 Ethernet Cards Marvell Yukon + Bluetooth + Wifi (all them integrated in motherboard and full working)

Edited March 12, 2007 by inter981

[kuzmi4]

I just have purchased a nVIDIA 7600GT Superclocked 256Mb DDR3 PCIe... let's cross the fingers hoping v.10.4.8 will work with that one...

So, does it? I'm quite sure it should. I'm running JaS 10.4.8 AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3 on:

asus a8n32sli deluxe (integrated audio, dual ethernet cards work fine)

amd64x2 3800+

256mb Leadtek px7600gt (QE/CI supported, sli not supported)

2x1gb dual channel ddr400 (Kingston)

40gb ide samsung hdd (MacOSX)

2 SATA-II WD hdds (got working after installing AppleNForceATA.kext)

pioneer dvr-107d DVD-RW

pioneer dvr-111d DVD-RW

[rusty64bit]

Just installed today 10.4.8

 

Here is my Setup

 

Dual AMD Opteron 250

2 GB Ram ECC Reg.

ASUS K8N-DL Mainboard

nvidia 7100GS

300 GB PATA Samsung Drive

2 Pioneer DVD Writer

HannesG HW191D 16:10 TFT

 

Everything works perfectly, only the Broadcom Gigabit Networkcard (OnBoard) does not work.

I use a Realtek 100Mbit and that on works.

 

No Issues with USB or Firewire.

Sound Works great

My Printer works over the Network (Brother MFC-425CN)

CF Card Reader works fine

 

Does anybody have an Idea how to get the Broadcom Card to work ?

 

Thank You

[AppleIIGuy]

Chaintech VN4f/Ultra (Nforce4)

3 Gb Ram

XFX Nvidia Geforce 7600GT 256 Mb Ram PCI-E

250 GB SATA

Maxtor DVD RW

TDK CD R/W

2 LCD Monitors

[naquaada]

So, here are my combinations: All working 100%, these are the perfect AMD mainboards.

 

System 1:

 

Asus A8N-SLI Premium

Athlon FX-55 San Diego 2.61 GHz Socket 939

2 GB Kingston HyperXX RAM

2x 320GB Maxtor IDE for MacOS

2x 400GB Samsung SATA2 for Windows

NEC ND-4570A DVD-Burner with PatchBurn drivers

Toshiba ODD-M1802 DVD-ROM

Logitech iTouch Cordless using PS/2

IBM P260 21" Monitor

 

Onboard components:

 

Gigabyte Radeon X1600Pro Silentpipe 2 PCI-e using borisbadenow patch

nForce 4 ATA/SATA using AppleNForceATA.kext

SiliconImage 3114 working using patched AppleVIAATA.kext

nForce 4 LAN using forcedeth driver

Marvell 88E8001 LAN using skge.kext

Firewire, USB with standard drivers

 

External:

 

Digidesign Midi-IO USB 10channel-Midi interface with Digidesign's drivers

Epson Stylus C86 Photo USB using Epson's drivers

 

OS:

 

MacOS X86 10.4.7 Myzar

Windows Media Center Edition 2005

Windows Server 2003 SP1

 

System 2:

 

Asus A8N-SLI Premium

Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 2.22 GHz Socket 939

2 GB Kingston HyperXX RAM

1x 300GB Maxtor IDE for MacOS System

1x 300GB Samsung IDE for MacOS Data

2x 300GB Samsung SATA2 for Windows

NEC ND-3540A DVD-Burner with PatchBurn drivers

Logitech Internet Navigator using PS/2

Samsung Syncmaster 204b 20" TFT using DVI (This monitor is so GREAT!!)

 

Onboard components: Same as System 1

 

External: M-Audio Quattro 4ch in/out USB Audio interface

 

OS:

 

MacOS X86 10.4.7 Myzar

Windows Media Center Edition 2005

 

System 3:

 

Asus K8N-E Deluxe

Athlon 64 3400+ Clawhammer 2.22 GHz Socket 754 SSE2 only

2 GB Samsung DDR333 RAM

Logitech Internet Navigator using PS/2

(No HD/monitor information cause i'll lend this system to a friend next time)

 

Onboard components:

 

GeCube Radeon X1600Pro Heatpipe AGP using borisbadenow patch

nForce 3 ATA/SATA using AppleVIAATA.kext

SiliconImage 3114 working using patched AppleVIAATA.kext

nForce 3 LAN using forcedeth driver

Firewire, USB with standard drivers

 

OS:

 

MacOS X86 10.4.7 Myzar

Windows Media Center Edition 2005

 

If there's anybody out there to write a new driver for the RME Hammerfeld 9636 then please DO IT!

 

 

GreetinX from the Other Side!

[ZeroCool42]

HP Pavilion DV5000Z

 

AMD Sempron 3200+ SSE3

Ati X200M video

SB400 chipset

Realtek RTL8319 ethernet

Broadcom BCM4318 wireless

 

Off the JaS 10.4.8 DVD most things worked straight away. Needed to install {censored} to get the video working at correct res, still no QE/CI yet, and probably never will be for the X200.

 

Sound worked straight away.

 

Had to remove some networking kexts and install new ones for the RTL8319. Wireless works under the airport drivers apparently, however mine doesn't as it keeps switching interfaces and it thinks its an ethernet interface...

 

USB works, except my external HD won't mount. The enclosure shows up in the USB list, but the hd doesn't show up with it and it doesn't mount.

[Vipersfate]

My setup

 

 

AMD Athlon64 3700+

Biostar 6100-M9

Nvidia 6600GT PCIe

Nforce 4 Chipset

 

JaS 10.4.8 ppf1

 

Sound works great!

Titan.kext with the DVD enables QE/CI

average of 96 in Xbench

Nforce 4 lan works with forcedeth drivers

SATA not working yet

[wthww]

Hey! I just installed JaS 10.4.8 PPF3 Today

 

Machspeed KK8-939A mobo

AMD Sempron 3000+ SSE2

ATI Rsdeon X550 256mb PCIe

Via Chipset

Onboard Realtek Nic doesnt work, I'm using some OEM Hp Broadcom card, works perfect

AC'97 Worked perfect, no modding needed.

sata doesnt work, IDE does.

 

//wthww

[.ark]

JaS 10.4.8 ( both patches )

Asus A8N-SLI Premium

Athlon64 X2 3800+

1GB Corsair XMS 2-2-2-2

Asus GeForce 7900 GT ( works perfectly )

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS ( does not work at all )

 

Onboard nforce audio (realtek ACL580 AC97) recognized but no sound.

 

Dell 2405FWP.

 

I have to mention that the way my hard drives are set up, I only had SATA drives to begin with. When OSX wouldn't install, I put in a normal PATA disk- and then every windows installation broke ( Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro, Windows Vista). Evidentially (with my setup) Windows hard mounts the first PATA drive and tries to boot from it, and the installers require write-access to it as well. My solution was to wipe osx and reserve the first 6GB or so for that. This is my Frankenstein system

 

This system works flawlessly ( Xcode, Adobe Applications, etc ) except for the complete lack of sound. If anybody could point me in the right direction for that I'd truly appreciate it- I've been searching for about 4 days now. And have tried 4 driver modifications with no luck.

[Jackobyte]

Tubgirl AMD Release

Foxconn Winfast NF4SK8AA Sli (everything works straight out the box easier than my A8N-SLi Deluxe) and it's only £40!!

Athlon X2 3800+ (OC to just under 3GHz)

NVidia Geforce 7300LE Graphics card, I do music so this doesn't matter too much works perfectly though

2GB Kingston Value RAM - amazing cheap ram for OC'ing

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro

 

All loaded without a hitch, NForce 4 LAN works straight away, Marvell needs patch but also works.

 

Perfect!

 

116 on XBench

[Vipersfate]

I was just reading through some of these. Seems like the AMD boards have something going for them. The only thing we can't get to work complete is a lot of the SATA drivers for NForce4 etc. Great setups everyone!

[preskush]

Hey everyone, just installed tubgirls 10.4.8 with the SATA NF4 patch yesterday, glad to join yall

 

Opteron 165 Dual Core (1.8GHz)

DFI Ultra NF4 Mobo

ATI Radeon X1300

3GB Corsair XMS Dual Channel Memory

2X160 GB SATA Hard Drives

TI Firewire 800 PCIe Card

Fireface 800 Firewire 800 Soundcard

 

Everything runs perfectly - smoother than my macbook - EXCEPT

 

a) when I start up I have to unplug all the USB's and plug them back in to get them recognized (really annoying)

 

S-video out and VGA out on the X1300 are not yet functional.

 

Anyone got any ideas???

[vptready]

Hi, I am very very new at this, so new I haven't even tried installing yet because of lack of hardware.

 

I was wondering about the following setup:

MotherboarD: ASUS M2N-SLI DeLuxe (nForce 570 SLI - AM2)

CPU: AMD Athlon 5600++ X2

RAM: DDR2-800 Kingston Hyper-X

HDD: SATA (I still have some IDE harddrives (7 of them) but I would like to go with SATA.

GPU: ATI x700 Pro (for now) I might switch to 1950XT in a while but I am awaiting the price drop because the new 2xxx series have come out.

 

Will this setup work or will I have some trouble? What version of OSX would I need to run?

 

I am a total noob, I don't even know how to use the linux terminal (maybe someone knows a good tutorial?) , but I am very very very experienced with computer in general, just stuck to Windows so don't know anything about linux.

 

Thanks

A starting hackintosher.

[naquaada]

The board seems not to be so ideal for OSx86.

 

I searched the Asus website for more information, but they don't have very much information about the onboard chips. I have an Asus A8N-SLI Premium (Socket 939), a friend has a M2N4-SLI (AM2) board. Both have nForce 4, same SATA and Audio, but a lightly different ethernet bridge, so ethernet isn't working.

The nForce 570 chipset isn't well supported, I don't know if SATA works at all. I use IDE for OSX, it is fast enough (booting <30 sec.) If you want to use your old IDE HDs on SATA, try an SATA-2-IDE-Adapter. But it's no SATA-2 speed, of course.

You're using a dual core CPU, so you may have stuttering problems. It should be eliminated/reduced if the CPU multiplier is set to a .5 value (11.5 instead of 12). But not all boards support this in BIOS. The 2nd way is to add the option cpus=1 in apple.com.boot.plist, so one cpu is deactivated.

A good gfx card is the Gigabyte Radeon X1600 Pro SilentPipe II, it is fast and very easy to patch. It has a heatpipe, so it is very quiet. But I don't know the gaming abilities, I'm no gamer at all. The card is about 80 Eur in ebay.

Another problem is getting the correct image: All 10.4.8 and 10.4.9 images have a bug in the Disk Utility function, it is a system-internal problem an not the disk utility itself. All versions after 10.4.7 have no more PCI support, so a PCI network card won't work. The other images have a lot of more problems. I'm using myzars 10.4.6 image and his 10.4.7 update, but they are very hard to find.

 

I think the possibly best AMD boards for OSx86 are the Asus A8N-SLI series, Socket 939. All components are supported, Dual-LAN, SATA, SiliconImage SATA, Firewire, 6ch-Audio, USB etc. Me and my friends using 6 A8N-SLI Premium, one A8N-SLI Deluxe and one A8N-SLI SE. All equipped with the Gigabyte X1600Pro SilentPipe 2.

[vptready]

Great advise thanks.

 

I have the following right now (the parts describe were upgrade parts):

 

ASUS A8N-E (non SLI) (compared the stats, pretty much the same on asus.com)

AMD 3800+ X2

ATI Radeon x700 pro (thinking of getting the sapphire 1950XT as said before)

7 IDE drives, but want to switch to SATA, etc

 

Would that work well with OSX? From what you said it should. That will allow me to try before upgrading, that would be great.

[naquaada]

Yeah, the A8N-E seems to be better. The SLI function is only neccessary if you have two nVidia cards running simultaneously.

 

I got some questions from others, so here are the drivers for the A8N series (or other nForce 3/4 boards) and the t*rren*s for the myzar installation images. But especcially the 10.4.7 update isn't well seeded. >Link me up!< Some Installing instructions are included.

 

Greetings from the Other Side!

[vptready]

Thanks so much mate .

I will try on saturday, as I am not home right now.

Thank you so much , I will give word of the progress, time to down now then . Thanks again.

 

Any other tips that might come in useful for a noob? A link to a tutorial about the terminal or something maybe?

 

Ill be downlo... I mean buying the tor... I mean... you know what I mean.

[naquaada]

Try this link for some docs.

 

The OSx86_iGuide is old, but it's a very safe installation method. Use PrintAnApple.pdf for printing a nice shaded Apple logo for your Hackintosh. Best use transparent self-adhessive foil for it. Looks great if you have a G5-style case.

 

GreetinX from the other Side!

[vptready]

Thanks a lot again .

Your hackintoshes look pretty good, if you don't look too well at the cases you can't really tell a difference.

 

I am... buying JMOSX1048ALLPACH (the filename). Is that any good for me? Or would it still be better to get 10.4.9?

 

Greets from over here.

[amekzz]

****************EDIT*******************

 

Well, not everything is THAT easy, right? I've encountered a problem... after I install this .kext and restart, my SATA drive appears and everything seems fine. When I restart again, my SATA drive is invisible again and an warning appears: "This file 'AppleNForceATA.kext' was installed incorrectly. Contact the developer bla bla bla.". Well, I will try to figure this out tomorrow. Just the warning, maybe it won't happen to everybody.

 

Mauricio

 

****************EDIT*******************

 

Hello friends... Mauricio here,

 

 

This is what I know... first my specs:

 

AMD Athlon 3200 64Bits

Gigabyte G8N-SLI

2x1Gigs DDR400

120Gigs IDE

160Gigs SATAII

eVGA GeForce 7600GTCO

 

I started installing the Mac OS X JAS 10.4.8 on my IDE HD. All installed alright and my PCI-Express card was reconized and fully operational. Sound onboard to. The only problem was that my SATAII HD wasn't visible. After a lot of searches, I found the way to make it visible.

 

First download this file: AppleNForceATA.kext download

This is the third revision of the file, that I've downloaded from BerliOS Developer https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfi...elease_id=12127 . On his site there is too the first rev. file.

 

After downloading and unziping, copy the AppleNForceATA.kext to the directory: SYSTEM (this is the name of the partition that has my OS installed)\SYSTEM (the folder SYSTEM)\Library\Extensions\

 

That's it. Restart and you will see that your SATA drivers are been visible. Maybe if we can put this .kext in the installing DVD of the OS, maybe we can install it direct on SATA drives.

 

Mauricio

 

P.S.: When I first tried to install MAC OS X, I've tried to install on my SATA HD. It installed fine, but when restarted and started to boot, it would freeze in the gray screen of loading and never get out of there. Installing on IDE solved that.