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Post by aquamac on Feb 18, 2007 8:52:03 GMT
Example of Sata/IDE convertor: Click HerePS. just read through The Guys walkthrough, however, connecting up on the DQ6 should be as I describe above as his tutorial is for the DS3. |
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Post by dimah on Feb 18, 2007 8:54:09 GMT
Hi aqua mac ,
Yes After finish the setup and restart the pc and os x start as normally and show me thw welcome message in different language but I say the system hang when I just select the input language .
when I click on option in install process I don't have any word about semthex kernel , wrong DVD ?
Thanks
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Post by aquamac on Feb 18, 2007 8:56:03 GMT
Oh OK, Do you want a copy? PS, This is the dongle I used: Click Here |
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Post by dimah on Feb 18, 2007 8:57:40 GMT
yes , sure
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Post by aquamac on Feb 18, 2007 8:58:49 GMT
OK, Pm me your address.
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Post by B B on Mar 10, 2007 1:45:33 GMT
Hey bb, If you take the whole case apart I think you can actually swap around the opening door side which will be the thing to do if you are using a MDD logicboard. Your case will then allow you to use the MDD swing door which could be mounted with the PCI slots at the top as they are as std, or you could leave it as it is and have a kind of reversed out PC configuration. Either way, you will end up having a cooler running MDD. I got my G5 case today. Has some scratchs on one side but not a big deal.Is really completed wit all cables ans fans and even the sensors. The case is too beautifull and I will never dare to cut it. I will sell my G4 MDD and assemble a G5.  |
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Post by ritalin on Mar 10, 2007 6:16:29 GMT
Would it not be cheaper to buy a complete G5? Assembling a genuine G5 PowerMac from spares would be d**ned expensive.
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Post by B B on Mar 11, 2007 10:37:37 GMT
I do agree with you. But buying part after part give more time to finish the project, so you do not need the all budget from the beginning . The dual 2 Gig is about 1500 euro now and the dual 2.3 or 2.7 Gig is about the 2000 euro. The MOBO or the Procs are about 500 euro each, the PSU around 200 euro plus the Ram, I come around the 1500
euro . The other parts I have some spare of. It is doable within 6 months.
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Post by brainman on Mar 17, 2007 16:36:06 GMT
As I've posted over at Strangedogs, I'm gonna build a Hackintosh (parts have started to arrive ;D).
I've decided to go for a dual boot solution (OSX and XP Pro).
My question is how do one avoid one or the other OS to insist on reformatting the drive(s) (SATA) belonging to the other OS?
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Post by aquamac on Mar 17, 2007 18:33:14 GMT
Hi Brainman, I guess one option is to use two seperate drives. This is always my personal choice. If you hit F8 at startup you get the boot menu selector, choose your drive and boot to the operating system of your choice. There is lots of info on the insanelymac wiki that tells you how to dual boot. I am only running Vista under VMWare Fusion. I only use it for the few editing facilities not available for mac. Let us know how it goes and always interested to see some pics or details of hardware.  |
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Post by brainman on Mar 17, 2007 21:50:54 GMT
I figured separate drives was the way to go, so I ordered two 160GB, one for each system, and two 250GB 'Document' drives. In addition I have around two TB in external storage. If everything goes well, I'll be up and running by next weekend  . I'll post a full "review" with pictures and benchmarks when I'm "finished" (but we'll never finish, will we ?) Thanks for the little time saver BTW. Cheers! |
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Post by racerblur on Mar 27, 2007 14:46:26 GMT
Has anyone tried using a Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus as a Hackintosh? I've got the Hackintosh bug especially since I shelled out a lot of money for my Quad G5... Still a sweet machine in my book, but d**n Hackintoshes fast.  Besides having a lot of G4 is my house (4 actually) and almost no PC (not real PCs) beside unless you consider my original Xbox a PC... I'd like to build a multi-boot PC/Hackintosh. How difficult is it to install 10.4? What do I need to do it? Any help would be great! Thanks again! |
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Post by aquamac on Mar 27, 2007 17:59:37 GMT
Hi racerblur, this is not going to be an easy install. I have a striker extreme motherboard that also has the 680i chipset, and I have not been able to get this going yet. However from what I can find out you may be able to get this working with a different install than Semthex. Go to Insanely mac and type 680i chipset into search, there are a couple of people who have got this going natively. But there are many easier options out there. eg 945, 965, 975 chipsets.
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Post by ritalin on Mar 28, 2007 21:25:21 GMT
I've got the Hackintosh bug especially since I shelled out a lot of money for my Quad G5... Still a sweet machine in my book, but d**n Hackintoshes fast. Either of my hacks would be sucking in the wake from a Quad G5 in a race. Having said that, I did build the cheapest (at the time) Core 2 Duo system I could. I used a budget 945 chipset M/B (£40 GBP), the slowest C2D available £100, cheap generic high latency DDR2 533MHz memory £37, etc... About £350 total on new stuff for the iHack!, pretty good bang for buck but not as fast as a Quad G5. The one advantage any core 2 duo hack has over the G5 is the ability to run Windows at near native speed in a virtual environment. A sweat trick if u need it. |
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Post by racerblur on Apr 3, 2007 13:21:18 GMT
Ok it's begun. I've purchased a Badaxe d975xbx motherboard for fairly cheap (fairly) - And I bought a case -- one 500 gig sata hard drive and a 160 from my G5 and one left over 7800 pcie -- is there any pitfalls that I should know about? I'll post details when everything starts coming in... tried keep shipping as cheap as possible... but I wanna good performer too... we'll see how it goes... that's for all the help. Hackintosh is coming!
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