
01-10-2009, 04:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: UK
Posts: 29
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AMD Phenom Installation advice required
Hiya Guys
Firstly I would like to say well done on all the amazing wealth of info you provide in this forum.
I have an AMD System which is currently running Vista Ultimate x64. This is installed on a sata drive but will be disconnected whilst setting up osx86 on a ide device which will later be put in an external caddy so i can plug it in as and when i need to play around with it.
I currently have 3 different distros, ideneb 1.3 10.5.5 (could not install always had root drive wait error), ipc 10.5.6 beta (not tried yet) and lawlessppc 10.5.4 (had success up to a point, was unable to get decent graphics resolution, no audio, no network, tried to update to 10.5.5 with a patched installer so i could try out some nvidia graphics drivers but this killed the installation.)
i have spent best part of 20 odd hours trying various things before asking for help as I usually like to solve problems myself but alas i am a bit beat on this one lol.
My main system specs are in my signature, I would like to know what would be the best distribution to use, how to update correctly to 10.5.5/6 (if needed) and get working graphics on 9500GT, not overly concerned with getting both cards working together but would be a bonus.
IDE HD is on master channel, DVDROM drive is on slave channel, sata disconnected. In my bios there are raid options but no ahci or whatever it's called though I would assume as i am not installing on sata that these settings are irrelevant?
Any help would be gratefully appreciated
Kindest Regards
KusariNinja
LawlessPPC Distro upgraded to 10.5.5, Voodoo Rev1.0 Kernel
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9600 Black Edition Skt AM2+ (940) 2.3Ghz
Motherboard: ASRock ALiveN570SLI-eSATA2
Chipset: nForce 570 SLI (nForceATA)
Memory: 8GB (4x2) DDR2 (3 within OSX using maxmem=)
Graphics: 2 x Palit 9500GT Super+1GB PCI-e
Hard-disk/s: 320GB Samsung SATA HD (Vista Ultimate x64)
250GB OSX86
Audio: 7.1 ALC888 Audio (ALC888 6 Port)
Network: Giga PHY Realtek RTL8211B Network (forcedeth)
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