Suggestions for a Noob

Kemosavi · #1 04-24-2009, 03:55 PM

Here are the specs of my system. Im more or less seeking a good direction and confirmation that my rig will allow leopard to install.

- AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition
- ASUS M4N72-E
- nForce 750a SLI chipset
- Nvidia 8800 GTS
- 4 gigs DDR2
- 250 Seagate SATA drive (brand new, strictly for OSX)

Any help or info someone could lend would be appreciated.

erick2red · #2 04-24-2009, 05:43 PM

For phenoms you could try LawlessPPC, and i heard around XxX is a good choice too.

naquaada · #3 04-24-2009, 06:27 PM

Hmm, don't know if it works. nForce 750a no idea, the audio cotroller is VIA VT1708S which has no special driver (maybe some kind of HDA audio?) and the LAN chip is Realtek RTL8211CL which also have no special driver, but could be supported with the nForce LAN ethernet driver. The nVidia 8800GTS is supported, with 320, 512 and 640 MB. If you want to try it contact me for the XxX image. But use an IDE DVD drive, a lot of people have problems with SATA DVD drives.

Kemosavi · #4 04-24-2009, 07:31 PM

Thanks for info I did more digging and this is where Im at now. After digging I found Lawless PPC which is supposed to have good support for the phenoms and seems to be what phenom owners are using.

As for the nForce 750a I found this thread on insanely mac
- Which seems to point towards the "ApplenForceATA.kext" for the good chipset driver but Im not sure what I actually do with the kext when I have it. Do I need to add it to the ISO? If so where?

I am also unsure as to what drivers I should choose for the rest of my hardware. If someone could show me the light I would appreciate it. : )

naquaada · #5 04-24-2009, 08:31 PM

All drivers are on the actual installation DVDs. The most important components are cpu, graphics, chipset, audio and ethernet. Your CPU and gfx are supported, ethernet maybe using the nForce LAN driver and audio is probably not supported. But this wouldn't be the problem, you can use USB soundcards.

Kemosavi · #6 04-24-2009, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by naquaada

All drivers are on the actual installation DVDs. The most important components are cpu, graphics, chipset, audio and ethernet. Your CPU and gfx are supported, ethernet maybe using the nForce LAN driver and audio is probably not supported. But this wouldn't be the problem, you can use USB soundcards.

Could I also buy an internal sound card? If so which are supported?

naquaada · #7 04-24-2009, 11:44 PM

I don't now about internal soundcard. But if you want real Mac support you have to use an USB or Firewire device. I'm using the M-Audio USB Transit, a professional audio interface which supports up to 96 kHz and has a seperate AC3-Output. It comes with own MacOS X drivers and a special preferences pane for configuration.

bonfilio · #8 06-25-2009, 07:08 PM

Just wanted to follow up on this topic.. I've got very similar hardware and I'm having zero luck.

Board is a Zotac Nforce 750a SLI with 2 9800GTs, 8GB ram, AMD x2.

The only distribution (tried many) that has worked for me (and after much research and tweaking) is the new iatkos 10.5.7. Every other distro - regardless of boot option - results in the crossed out Apple logo when trying to boot (DVD, never gets to the point of actually installing).

With iatkos 10.5.7, without any boot options, Darwin fully loads but when you get to the first grey screen after the Apple booting logo, the cursor just beachballs (it is responsive, follows mouse, etc) until a reset.

With the maxmem=2048 boot option, I've been able to install successfully. Able to format/partition (know all about AHCI) disks, able to see external USB disks, etc. When I install I've used a bare minimum of drivers (i think just the nforceata).

On the first reboot after installation, it goes to the same beachball cursor, regardless of boot options.

Does anyone have any idea on what needs to be done for a 750a (and I'd imagine all nvidia SLI chipset boards) for them to work?

sorandomitworks · #9 07-07-2009, 05:17 PM

I had a 75*a sli chipset. IPC worked. VoodooHDA works for sound. Now I have a few one being a ASUS P5Q Turbo. It has VT1708S codec and VoodooHDA works Great.

ptesone · #10 08-03-2009, 02:48 AM

I have a XFX nforce 750a sli with AMD phenom and GeForce 7300 GS, running iPC 10.5.6 on IDE works great but I'm going to try iatkos 10.5.7 on a SATA next, will post results