InfiniteMac OSx86 - View Single Post - iPC 10.5.6 on AMD Sempron (P) 3400+ Socket 939

naquaada · 03-13-2009, 08:44 PM

Hello, welcome to the Forum, enjoy your stay!

I found some web entries to your board, and insanelymac is also a question about this board - but no reply. Let's hope we can do better.

Your onboard audio chip is the ALC 658. I'm no expert with AMD chipsets, I only know from some friends who have the X200M in laptops and it is not working. Basic categories you should use in every image are the Voodoo 9.5.0 kernel and AppleSMBIOS DDR 400 MHz or similar. Useful is the verbose mode, some images don't have this as default. The PS/2 fix is needed if you're using a PS/2-keyboard and/or mouse. I installed iPC 10.5.6 last time, but it needed a LOT of patches and there are still some unknown problems. I actually found this kext in insanleymac, maybe this should work for your IDE chipset. But now how to apply it without a working system

A bit puny in your system is the Sempron CPU, it will work, but because of its small Level-2-Cache of only 128K it will be very slow. If you're searching for a newer cpu, use f.e. a Athlon 64 3700+ or 4000+, they are rather cheap and have 1 MB L2-Cache, or any type of the Opteron series for Socket 939 which have also 1 MB cache. The Athlon X2-Series have also only 512K, the Dual-Core-Opterons (types 165-185) have 1 MB.