Will iPC run on this?

[nicky9499]

I, want to build a completely new SFF machine specially for OSX. Either way you look at it, it'll still be more fun and cheaper than buying an Mac Mini.

Currently we have:

Intel E8400 + MSI G45M-Digital
Kingston 4GB DDR2-800
Hitachi 1TB SATA
Samsung DVDRW 22x SATA
Silverstone SG02F
Seasonic 430w m12 power supply
Asus 9400 GT 512MB
Wireless-N adapter pending.

The point of building a new machine is so that all hardware is fully compatible with as little hassle as possible. Can anyone verify that the above is satisfactory? Are there any known issues; perhaps some components that I should replace with another?

Motherboard is not in Hardware Compatibility List, while graphic card has multiple entries, cause for concern. Advice needed, thanks in advance.

Cheerio,
Nicholas.

[Voyn1x]

Hmm yeah, that mobo is a bit of a unknown.

Your best bet is getting a Gigabyte board as they are generally very compatible. I built myself a new microATX based system recently using the GA-G31M-ES2L. Slightly lower spec but works mostly out of the box using a retail EFI install. I can give you my kexts, dsdt and boot132 disk if you're interested

The rest sounds fine

[sunfire523]

FYI, try to get the rev1.x version, not the rev2.0 kind. The lan on the 1.x works out of the box, but I bought the 2.0, and can't get it to work. They changed the lan chip from Realtek to Atheros, and the Atheros chip generally sucks on all OS's...

The LAN chip is a AR8131. There is a driver for that chip on kexts.com, but it's for the mobile version of the chip... Everything else was smooth as silk. Guess I'm gonna have to drop $10 on a lan card

As a side note, anyone think there is a way to tweak the existing AR8131 chip to work with this mobo? I would assume that there isn't much difference, but I am far from a driver programmer. Anyone want to be really awesome and make this motherboard perfect for OSX?

[Imkantus]

Can you maybe post a direct Link to that kext file (seems I am either to dump or to tired to find it ) in addition with the result of "lspci -nn" (get it by using some Linux Distro or PCIUtils for OS X) ?

[sunfire523]

Geez, my mistake, I thought it was on kexts.com (it was easier to say that ). Anyways, here is the thread where I found it http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=140907. I also attached the zip file I used (from the thread).

This is the lspci -nn output. I used an ubuntu live cd.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci -nn
 
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 10)
 
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:29c1] (rev 10)
 
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
 
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
 
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
 
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
 
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
 
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
 
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
 
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
 
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev e1)
 
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01)
 
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c0] (rev 01)
 
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9500 GT [10de:0640] (rev a1)
 
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Device [1969:1063] (rev c0)

Thanks for your help!

[sunfire523]

Well, this is interesting... I installed the attached kexts (thanks to Voyn1x for putting them in his guide), and an ethernet adapter has shown up in system profiler and network (under system preferences). Network says it's there, but the cable is unplugged (it isn't). The network diagnostics still say the ethernet has failed, and "ifconfig en0" says the interface dne.

Did the drivers just create a dummy ethernet adapter, or is this a good sign? I do have the Attansic driver still installed.

So the plot thickens...

[sunfire523]

Actually, thinking about it, spending $13 on newegg for a nic card is probably more efficient than becoming a driver programmer

I guess the G31M-ES2L is great for rev 0 & 1.x, but for 2... not so much

I will make sure to post the difference in the HCL.

Thanks a bunch

[LordRaziel]

I tried it too just like in this post but still unsuccessful. Hope somebody solve this