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Old 10-01-2010, 02:04 PM
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eMachine W3619 Install Guide

I have successfully installed iPC 10.5.6 PPF2 on the eMachine W3619.

This machine is FULLY compatible, everything works!

This is how I did it...

Things you will need...

1. An eMachine W3619 (ofcourse)

2. iPC 10.5.6 PPF2 or greater.

3. About an hour of your time.



Step 1 Booting the DVD.

To boot the the iPC DVD just leave the default BIOS settings and hit F10 at the BIOS boot splash, and you will be taken to the boot selection menu. Open the DVD-RW tray and put your iPC DVD in, use the arrow keys to select the boot option "CD-ROM" and it will start booting the DVD, Next you will see the Darwin Loader screen, just a black with white text page, at this page press F8, then this will take you to a prompt, now type "-v" (without the quotes ofcourse) now the DVD should boot into the Leopard installer.


Step 2 Setup.

Here we are at the Language selection page... Here select your language.
Now to setup the hard drive, go to "Utilities" and then go to "Disk Utility"
and select your hard drive. (not the partition but the HARD DRIVE) Now click the "Partition" tab and go on to select in the list only to have 1 partition and now click options and make sure you have the "GUID" partition map selected, now name the disk as you wish. Then exit the "Disk Utility" when its done, after that hit "Continue" then you will be asked where to install Leopard, you should select the hard disk that you just prepared in "Disk Utility".


Step 3 The "Customize" Button.

Please select ONLY these options under this menu.


Voodoo 9.5.0 Kernel

Intel GMA 950 Graphics

R1000 NIC

ALC883 Sound

Seatbelt.kext

ANV MacPro SMBios

GenericCPUPowerManagement <---This is needed because without this kext the system fan is erratic.

Step 4 Installation...


Now that you have selected the right options for your install, now is the time to actually install...

After you exit the "Customize" menu hitting the "Done" button you can now hit the "Install" button in the installer window. After you do so it should check the DVD ( DO NOT SKIP THE DVD CHECK ) , after the install finishes it will restart.


Step 5 Post install.

Well after you have restarted from the install, you'll notice that your resolution is kinda funky ain't it? Just go to the "System Settings" and adjust your resolution. Now you need to repair your permissions in the "Disk Utility" and reboot.


Step 6 ( Well there really ain't a Step 6 unless you consider sitting back and enjoying a fully working OSx86 install heh heh... )




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Old 10-09-2010, 07:56 AM
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Can you update to 10.5.8?



nice job btw...

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Old 10-09-2010, 04:16 PM
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Yes, but it trashes your graphics and kernel and takes a long time to fix properly. If your looking at updating I can tell you what your in for.

First you should have the "OSx86 Tools Utility" installed, use the "Back Up Kernel" function, and then download and install the "iDeneb 10.5.8 Combo Update", you install that, then don't restart, after that go and open the tool that came with the update and select the "Remove Kernel" function and run the tool, after that, go back to the OSx86 Tools utility and hit the "Restore Kernel" function. Then go into your "apple.com.boot.plist" file and add this in the string section
"Graphics Mode"="1280x800x32@60" with the quotes (also if your monitor supports a higher resolution replace the values stated above with it), Make sure you edit it in the terminal with "nano" and with the "sudo -s" flag.




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Old 10-09-2010, 09:40 PM
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Doesn't sound that bad. Think I'll buy a mono and build one. Shut I've got at least 100 hrs in this damn et1330 and it still won't start reliably or sleep. Ever get yours to sleep after the 10.5.8 update?




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Old 10-10-2010, 07:23 PM
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The et1331.... No I didn't, I don't currently own that machine anymore, thats why I got my W3619.


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Old 10-10-2010, 09:05 PM
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There's a few of those MOBO's on ebay right now, think I'll build one. I just want one that runs right. no quirks. right now I get a blue screen EXACTLY every other boot!!! frustrating! and any installer, except for pacifist hangs and stops responding. no ideneb 10.5.8 update for me!!!



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