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Snow Leopard Server on Dell Inspiron 531 Desktop AMD

Hi, I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction- I have a dell inspiron 531 desktop with an AMD athlon 64 x2 processor and want to know if I can run snow leopard server on it? I am a mac user but new to hackintosh concept and…

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@jameski Published 2010-03-08
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OSx86 Core & 10.X
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7,654 historical reads · 2 curated field notes (from 4 dispatches) · 2010-03-08 – 2010-04-25
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@jameski@virtualmyles@scififan68@pastollio

Hi, I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction- I have a dell inspiron 531 desktop with an AMD athlon 64 x2 processor and want to know if I can run snow leopard server on it? I am a mac user but new to hackintosh concept and wanted to know if I can make use of my abandoned dell. All help greatly appreciated

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2 technical responses curated from 4 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @scififan68 2010-03-24 ↳ Re: @virtualmyles
@virtualmylesNo. It can not be done.

Wrong.. it can be done, there are people on this site including me who have Snow Leopard on our 531's and it runs good too, server would too.

Field Note #2 @pastollio 2010-04-25 ↳ Re: @scififan68
@scififan68Wrong.. it can be done, there are people on this site including me who have Snow Leopard on our 531's and it runs good too, server would too.

hey i have a 531s but i know it has the same board has the 531 i have simliar specs as you i have a AMD 64x2 5600+ 4gigs 160HDD and a 9500gt 1gig ddr2 how did you get SL to work?

Corroborated & Participated: @virtualmyles
Sources & Contributor Provenance (4 credited usernames · Thread #5694)
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@jameskiPrimary Author12010-03-08
@virtualmylesContributor12010-03-24
@scififan68Contributor12010-03-24
@pastollioContributor12010-04-25