Howto: Build a Mac OS X x86 machine to run OS X natively
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Using a motherboard with an Intel 915 chipset and a P4/Celeron D Processor, you can get OSX up and running natively. It’s FAST and is 100% compatible(sound, accelerated graphics, and networking). It also runs PowerPC Applications. This hardware can be obtained for around $100. This is a list for OSX x86 hardware compatibility.
Info is scattered all over so I compiled a list of working components that work in native mode (no Pear, or VMware).
If you have more, add it, IF it works completely. Please ONLY add the components and no questions, failures, etc.
We need a clear list of working components.
Fully working hardware list.
CPU SSE3
AMD 64 (venice)
Intel Prescot P4
Intel Celeron D*SSE2 processors are not listed due to limited operation (certain apps will not work).
Chipsets
Intel 845
Intel 865
Intel 875
Intel 915
Intel 925
Nvidia Nforce 4 Ultra
VIA P4M266A
VIA K8M800Video
Intel 900Sound/Southbridge
ADI AD1985
C-Media USB Audio (no additional drivers required).
Intel ICH4
Intel ICH5
Intel ICH5R
Intel ICH6
Intel ICH6R (ATA only, no raid)
Realtek ALC860
Realtek ALC655
Realtek ALC850 (nForce Audio)(requires kext plist file edit)
Realtek ALC855
Sigmatel C-Major Audio (Dell 700m, copy over AppleAC97 kext from Darwin)
Sonica Theater (USB)
VIA VT8235Ethernet
3Com 3c905
3Com 3c900 (10mbit only)
Broadcom BCM5705M (NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet)
Broadcom 440x 10/100
Intel 82547EI
Intel 82562EZ
Realtek 8100C
Realtek 8139
Realtek 8100C
SMC-1211TX (Recognized as RTL8139 [Realtek]
Surecom EP-320X-R 100/10/MDrives/Acc
DVD burners
Pioneer DVD A07 Writer
NEC ND-3500AGCD burners
LiteOn LTR-52327-S is recognized as burnerFireWire or 1394
Audigy Sound Card firewire
SIIG 3-port PCI card (Texas Instruments TSB12LV23)
VIA 6306 chipset (found on some Nforce boards)BlueTooth
IOGear USB BlueTooth dongle
MSI pc2pc Bluetooth DongleMost compatible motherboards
Will be updated on occasion
Audio, video,and chipset (no definate networking, but easy to fix with a cheap card)
Intel
No video (or definate networking)
IntelAMD will be added later. Basically, it takes an expensive board and processor.
The cheap setup is Celeron D with a budget board, together, they can be had for about $110. The cheapest board does not show up in the search (as well as a few others, not sure why, I need to look into it). This BIOSTAR U8668 D, and the cheapest Celeron D processor you can find is the cheapest.
See this thread (thanks Macgirl).Complete desktop system (almost perfect…)
DELL DIMENSION 4600
206 Comments, Comment or Trackback
zd
If you own an ATI based VGA, you can easily install your VGA on Tiger X86 via simple bios update IMO (so this is my theory). But I’m not sure about boot issues on a PC motherboard… However, boot issues can be easily fixed using PCI card, and re-bios update.
All you need is this file if you own a Radeon 9800pro with Samsung memory (maybe you can edit timings to use with other brand of memory) ;
http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/ATI.9800PROMAC.128.Samsung28.bin
You can also find MAC compatible bioses for Radeon 9000, and 8500 in this page;
http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/
Aug 16th, 2005
zd
If you own an ATI based VGA, you can easily install your VGA on Tiger X86 via simple bios update IMO (so this is my theory). But I’m not sure about boot issues on a PC motherboard… However, boot issues can be easily fixed using PCI card, and re-bios update.
All you need is a bios file if you own a Radeon 9800pro with Samsung memory (maybe you can edit timings to use with other brand of memory). And it’s here ;
http://www.techpowerup.com/bios/
Aug 16th, 2005
zd
If you own an ATI based VGA, you can easily install your VGA on Tiger X86 via simple bios update IMO (so this is my theory). But I’m not sure about boot issues on a PC motherboard… However, boot issues can be easily fixed using PCI card, and re-bios update.
All you need is a bios file if you own a Radeon 9800pro with Samsung memory (maybe you can edit timings to use with other brand of memory). And it’s here ;
techpowerup.com/bios/
Aug 16th, 2005
Scott Goodson
I’m running OS X on a system I threw together just for the project. It runs well on a 945 chipset with Pentium 630, with 512MB of DDR2 (dual channel; 2×256). It actually runs with a PCI-Express GeForce 6600, though graphics are slow, because the OS only sees a generic PCI card. I have tried many other graphics cards and interfaces, and it always sees a generic 16MB accelerator (even on different chipsets, and AMD machines). However, the 6600 is so fast that it brute-forces the system into the relm of usability. Rosetta pumped out 1.86 gigaflops–emulated PPC code!
Aug 16th, 2005
Justin
Anyone try installing the deadmoo image on a Dell Dimension 2400? It’s an Intel Celeron D 2.4GHz processor, Intel 845GV chipset, and Integrated Intel Extreme 3D Graphics (82845G).
After much wrangling, I got the image bootable, but as soon as it gets to the login screen, it gets all wonky. The graphics are all but indecipherable. It drops to some sort of greyscale halftoning. I can barely make out the icons well enough to open System Preferences, then Display properties. I BELIEVE it says it’s in 800×600 at 256-color mode, but I can’t read the text well enough to swear to it. The mouse cursor disappears as soon as I click on one of the settings, only to be brought back by clicking on the menu at the top of the screen. Near as I can tell, it doesn’t believe any other video modes are available, and I can’t find any place to see what video hardware it thinks it’s using. It’s by far the most frustrating computing experience I’ve ever had! When I started in safe mode (-x), the initial greyscale apple screen comes up fine, but as soon as it brings up the login screen it’s all FUBAR’d again.
Since it seems to be designed with low-end hardware in mind (845 chipset, Celeron D), I’d think it would be able to handle the integrated graphics, too. Anyone have any insight?
Aug 17th, 2005
John Long
I have the Asus AV8 Deluxe MB with 2G Ram and ATI 9800 AIW and AMD Atholn 64 - 3400. I believe the chipset is Via and Promise RAID controller. Can anyone help me to setup for OS X to run natively on my system? Thanks!
Aug 17th, 2005
xef6
i have an MSI RS480M2-IL (s939) with an AMD64 3200+ Venice, 1GB PC3200 RAM, and a pci-e 6800GT
i did the dd install from windows, and everything booted fine
the GUI is slow as hell, but what can you expect from generic drivers?
also… the kernel is churning all the time, stealing all of my precious cycles
Aug 18th, 2005
Dov_F
Can I run this on a dual core system (Amd X2, or Intel EE 840?)
Aug 18th, 2005
Beats
yo Justin, I am on a 2400 also with a 2.66 P4. I am having the same problem as you. I found the problem here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL#Dell_Dimension_2400
apparently the video card (haha) only gives 16 colors, so it’s not the chip or anything. and there’s no AGP slot. sux
Aug 18th, 2005
euphras
@ justin, John, xef6, beats and the rest to come:
First you steal a non crap OS, then try to install it on hardware not meant to run it and THEN YOU´RE WHINNING ABOUT IT NOT RUNNING WELL.
plz, give me a break…………and go buy a Mac, if you want Tiger
Aug 19th, 2005
euphras
^^^ First you steal a non crap OS, then you install it on hardware not meant to run it and then you´re whinning about it not running well?!?
plz, give me a break…………..and buy a mac if you want TIGER
Aug 19th, 2005
jmasta
hi, have the Realtek ALC655 on my motherboard, hoiw do i install it in os x86?
Aug 19th, 2005
booboo
I got an insight just use unix.. is better than osx
Aug 19th, 2005
booboo
I got an insight just use linux.. is better than osx
Aug 19th, 2005
booboo
I got an insight just use optrex.. is better than osx
Aug 19th, 2005
austin
I got all this working on a Pentium M laptop using the patches from Maxxuss off of osx86project.
I now have XP/OSX/FC4 booting via grub
My basic method was the one described by justin.
-Boot ubuntu and make a new PRIMARY (very important) partition with type af (using fdisk or cfdisk)
-boot windows and dd the deadmoo image to the new partition.
-Put the darwin bootloader on C:\ (lost the link)
it’s called chain0
-reboot and typed at grub:
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
boot
and it works.
apply the patches and itunes will run under rosetta even
Aug 19th, 2005
carlos
How would I go about patching the system for enabling sse3 and rosetta? Just replacing “CoreGraphics”??? Ive tried to copy and paste it from withing osx, but that doesnt work. Let me know.
Aug 21st, 2005
MacNewbie
For the Dell Dimension guys. I had the same problem “crappy video” with 16 colors, but when I increased my video memory in bios to 8MB everything works fine. Let me know if that solves your problem.
Aug 21st, 2005
dasepsilon
is there any update on the hardware list?
especially ati-cards? i’d like to buy AMD
instead of intel, but am unsure of the
compability…
thanks in advance
Aug 22nd, 2005
1bad2v
intel Pentium 4 670 Prescott 800MHz FSB 2MB L2 Cache LGA 775 EM64T Processor
Would I be able to use this processor to run natively? It has 64 bit support
Aug 22nd, 2005
wrsiii
Got it working with my MSI 845PE Max2 (MS-6704) V2 updated with BIOS 3.2 to support 533FSB, Intel Pro 1000MT (Integrated),1GB PC3200 RAM 533 FSB, 2.8 GHZ P4 SSE2, DiamondMax 60GB ATA133 HD, CompUSA Radeon 9200 Sony Double Layer DVDR and Sony DVDROM both work, but sound does not. Video is responsive, but menus and dialog boxes flash green lines when colapsing or closing. Most included apps work, Safari quits whn loading certain pages. DVD Player does not start. PPC apps do not work because of SSE2 processor (mostly likely cause based on my reading so far). I was able to burn a DVD.
Aug 23rd, 2005
wrsiii
Got it working with my MSI 845PE Max2 (MS-6704) V2 updated with BIOS 3.2 to support 533FSB, Intel Pro 1000MT (Integrated),1GB PC3200 RAM 533 FSB, 2.8 GHZ P4 SSE2, DiamondMax 60GB ATA133 HD, CompUSA Radeon 9200 Sony Double Layer DVDR and Sony DVDROM both work, but C-Media CMI8738 sound does not. Video is responsive, but menus and dialog boxes flash green lines when colapsing or closing. Most included apps work, Safari quits whn loading certain pages. DVD Player does not start. PPC apps do not work because of SSE2 processor (mostly likely cause based on my reading so far). I was able to burn a DVD. I am putting together a P4 3.0 Ghz 530J 800Mhz FSB LGA775 processor and TBD mainboard as an upgrade to my current system. I’ll test again and post. This is my backup PC. My primary system is a Quicksilver 2002 PowerMac G4 2X1Ghz with 1.5 GB RAM and lots of space running Tiger.
Aug 23rd, 2005
JaVaBeAn
ok, I have the 915 chipset. which build should I load, the dev edition or the tiger-X86.img or another? I put the dev edition in and it boots up and then goes to blue screen and stays there forever. I have no activity that I can tell on HDD or DVD. any guidance?
Aug 24th, 2005
GreenBug
HP nx 7010 Laptop works fine. But rozetta dosen’t work. Safari quit’s by himself.
Aug 24th, 2005
jccool
i have a sse3 cpu …intel mother board D915GAV Pentium-4 3.4ghz and this is to say that soundblaster live USB works i have it up and running so spread word it only costs 49$ please this to your what works list …..
Aug 24th, 2005
Keith
Correction to the above list of working hardware… I have a Broadcom 5705 Wired Gigabit ethernet controller, and OSX does not recognize it in native mode… I’m hoping someone writes a driver for it soon, but for now it isnt working. If anyone has any further information about the Broadcom drivers, i’m sure I’m not the only one who would love to hear about it.
Aug 24th, 2005
JaS
the bios for ati cards in macs are 128k and the ones for pc are 64k if anyone gets a mac bios flased to a pc bios rom and it works i want to see it(without taking the eeprom off the card and adding the 128k eeprom
Aug 25th, 2005
obskure
don’t flash your pc card to a mac card ie.using 9800 pro small rom file. It won’t work.
I have a flashed 9800 pro running in my mac I tried it in my pc running os x and the motherboard posted a “bad vga” message.
I think the pc roms and mac roms are ppc/x86 specific. bummer.
I have also tested a 9000 pro oem mac card. no luck.
Aug 27th, 2005
obskure
Hey Jas,
The rom file I used for my 9800 pro was a reduced rom file (64) so I didn’t have to solder on a 128k eeprom.
Works great in my g4 powermac running Motion 2. Doesn’t work at all in my pc running os x(refer to above post).
Aug 27th, 2005
eliya
By native, you mean that you don’t need any patches or something(any patched version like the deadmoo image?)? you can install the dev kit as is?
Aug 28th, 2005
huggafat
I got it running on a P4 2.53, but my sound cards are not recognized Audigy 2, and onboard C-Media. Also netiher of my network cards are recognized D-Link DL-10050, onboard SIS-900. and finally no usb plug and play recognition
Aug 29th, 2005
Cow
Many people have said “I’ve installed the deadmoo image.” I haven’t found any but deadmoo. Are there?
Aug 30th, 2005
Gemici
celeron 2.0 suppert the mc os x?
Aug 30th, 2005
Tigah
Running as we speak on a Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4 @ 3.0GHz, 512MB RAM, Asus P4P800. Can’t burn cds or dvds (I have a NEC 3500A), not sure if the onboard LAN is working as I haven’t tested it, but it didn’t work on the deluxe version so…Onboard sound working fine, no support for my soundblaster, though. Network detected and running on my 3COM Etherlink.
Patched the system with maxxuss files 0.4. PowerPc apps working, iTunes working like a charm, Safari works, firefox (pearpc build) works, MSN Messenger works and so on… Have random crashes on apps like QuickSilver, not sure what the problem is. Besides that, faster than my xp and so on.
Aug 30th, 2005
TheFighter
Do you think the following spec would work?
Im about to buy a new computer, which is going to be my computer for the next few years, and when I saw about the whole Mac Intel thing going on, I thought, Ive got to do that as well! I decided to change a few things to try and get it to work natively, and I want to know if you think it will work. Thanks
Tech Spec:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Socket 939 Venice Core
Gigabyte K8VT890-9 or some ASUS motherboard
Nvidia 6600 PCI-E
1GB of DDR 3200
Anything else that needs to be ready to be compatible?
Thanks
TheFighter
Aug 31st, 2005
Blarg
Netgear GA311 NIC works fine on this
Aug 31st, 2005
Jake
Austin and wrsiii:
Were you able to get the OS X ‘boot volume’ to a larger HD and fully use the space? As has been commented elsewhere, the ‘dd’ thing will turn the target drive into a disk identical to the image - 6 GB in size… Others have limited the primary partition to 6 or 7 GB, so then could create additional partitions on the HD.
I want a full use of the 12 GB HD for OS X, and boot from it. Any suggestions?
Here is my environment: Norwood 2.5 GHz; Via main board; Kingston Fast Ethernet card; nVidia 440 video. All functional with network and sound etc. The only thing I want to get to is to fully utilize the HD space for a single OS X partition.
Thanks guys!
–Austin wrote:
I got all this working on a Pentium M laptop using the patches from Maxxuss off of osx86project.
I now have XP/OSX/FC4 booting via grub
My basic method was the one described by justin.
-Boot ubuntu and make a new PRIMARY (very important) partition with type af (using fdisk or cfdisk)
-boot windows and dd the deadmoo image to the new partition.
-Put the darwin bootloader on C:\ (lost the link)
it’s called chain0
-reboot and typed at grub:
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
boot
and it works.
Comment by austin 08.19.05 @ 8:07 pm
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Sep 1st, 2005
Eddie
i wish i knew if my pavilion a847c was fully compatible, esp. since it has HT. here’s the specs…
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?dlc=en&lc=en&product=448706&lang=en&cc=us&docname=c00280716#N10042
sorry ’bout the long url…
Sep 1st, 2005
Eddie
i wish i knew if my pavilion a847c was fully compatible, esp. since it has HT. here’s the specs…
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?dlc=en&lc=en&product=448706&lang=en&cc=us&docname=c00280716#N10042
Sep 1st, 2005
snowman
AMD 2500 barton is a no go
Sep 2nd, 2005
slashdot
In a P4 530 over ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe Motherboard everything works, but the net and sound (only optical output appears). I installed realtek 8139 and have got every needed device working.
It is fast enough, but not blazing!!
Sep 6th, 2005
Nick
Im buying a couple of laptop’s at the moment and am wondering which new laptops run osx for sure? Can anyone help?
Sep 8th, 2005
mikel
have a questions guys did anybody try to put the OSX in a mobile computer or a portable? does it work, maybe in a week or so I will be able to answer this question but I was trying for a moral boost sorry for my english I am from Spain
Sep 8th, 2005
jojo
I have is running on Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 512MB RAM, Asus P4P800 Deluxe. Onboard 3com 3c940 Gbit PCI Lan not working, however my PCI Dlink 530tx+ rev D is working fine. My onboard sound ADI AD1985 is not working. Have not tried any other sound card yet. All osx programs are working fine except dvdplayer i get an error that it is missing a video driver. I used Viper’s ISO witch is a full install dvd os OSX 10.4.1 and sse2 is patched by default at the end of the install. As far as some have expressed about if you want tiger then get a mac, “Get a life” and I have a mac in fact I have two. Getting osx to work on a pc is just for fun for me.
Sep 9th, 2005
Cassie
As an FYI. The 945G chipset has full support (HD Audio, USB, P/SATA, GMA950, etc) if you edit kexts to put the device IDs in.
Sep 9th, 2005
jake
i noticed above two other people with the same problem, my copy runs in black and white, i have intel 845gv onboard graphics (64 mb). someone mentioned going into the bios and changing the amount of memory for the card, but i dont understand how to, help?
Sep 11th, 2005
jake
ugggh help please im sick of this gray scale, i really shouldnt complain being bootlegged an all huh?
Sep 11th, 2005
bob
x86 is running fine in vmware but its black and white when i boot it natively, any ideas?
Sep 11th, 2005
xef6
a tool said:
“First you steal a non crap OS, then you install it on hardware not meant to run it and then you´re whinning about it not running well?!?
plz, give me a break…………..and buy a mac if you want TIGER”
Sure, I would gladly do that, if I didn’t already have a legitimate full install of 10.4, 10.3, 10.2, a 1.5 Ghz Powerbook, a Dual 1 Ghz G4 Quicksilver, a 350Mhz G3 Blue & White tower overclocked to 450Mhz, and a 600Mhz G3 iBook.
But then again, you didn’t know that, now did you?
I fixed the slow GUI problem, even though i wasn’t really complaining about it in the first place. On an informative note, my x86 osx machine opens apps faster than the shared single 1.8Ghz G5 Powermac in my house, and my 1.5 Ghz Powerbook.
tool.
Sep 14th, 2005
mikel
Ey this OS is running on labtops?
Sep 17th, 2005
invisible
does anyone know if downloaded mac applications from the internet work with x-86?
cheers
Sep 18th, 2005
Jabberwock
I have an Asus A8N-SLI deluxe (nForce 4 chipset, Realtek onboard audio) with an AMD Athlon 64 3200+, GeForce 6600 GT, 1GB RAM, 2 x 250 GB Western-Digital WD2500JD HDDs, 2 x NEC DVD-RW ND-3520A drives, Marvell Yukon and NVidia nForce NICs.
Anyone know if there’s any chance at all it’ll run for me?
Sep 25th, 2005
Chris (Noob)
can any one please email the dd instructions in LAMEN TERMS im new to linux and this part im confused on…. How do you mount in vmware the deadmoo iso???
Sep 27th, 2005
Chris (Noob)
tryin to install on a second primary partition DELL 9100 Inspiron and cannot transfer image.However I can get osx boot screen up in vmware then freezes
Sep 27th, 2005
bm
hi,
should the broadcom gigabit ethernet card work or not ?
Sep 29th, 2005
Skippy
When you say native install, does that mean a legal copy of tiger will install out of the box on the listed hardware?
Sep 30th, 2005
al
I’ve managed to install osx86 several times
however couldn’t for the life of me get any of the powerpc apps to run 0
safari keeps restarting
downloaded and installed the patches from sse3 to sse2 (which is what i have)
still frustrated
any hints out there
thanks
Oct 1st, 2005
Jason Dax
I’m writing this from Tiger running on my Dell Inspiron 5100. Took me a week of work, but finally is working satisfactory. (P4, 1Gb RAM, running on 4th partition 10GB size, and, yes, using the entire 10GB).
Have to follow the instruccions to get it run in VMWare. Use anoter VM to install Darwin on partition you want to run Tiger, no matter size. Then attach this partition to the Tiger VM, boot into Tiger, and do a restore from the virtual disk to the partition with darwin. Repaire permissions, and go boot to native.
I’m using XP boot loader, work fine for me, Have to type at the darwin boot “platform=X86PC|ACPI -x”, and this boot Tiger fine.
Hope this help you guys, and enjoy experimenting with Tiger!
Oct 6th, 2005
thomas
I got it running on a P4 2.53, but my sound cards are not recognized Audigy 2, and onboard C-Media. Also netiher of my network cards onboard SIS-900 BUT IT IS NOT ACTIVITE . and finally no usb plug and play recognition , HOW CAN I DO TO SOLVITE IT .
Oct 7th, 2005
xarizmat
I don’t know about hardware incompatibilities, or your problems with booting. I downloaded DEADMOO’s VMWare image, and used [http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm] - DD for windows utility to write the .img file to my disk. all hardware supported, and running great. at the moment, i am running mac os x86 tiger off of a U.S.B. Hard Drive… No Problems!!! I will post the How To for usb OSX later on the forum.
P.S.
OS X on PC is still a very unstable os if you do not have windows… perhaps when it is finished, and mac converts to X86, then it would be quite usable. There is still very little software for X86 platform OSX.
Oct 9th, 2005
gomph
Tiger is working in my PC very well. My equipment is P5GDC Deluxe, 1Gb DDR ram, P4 3 GHz, HD SATA Maxtor, Asus EN6600GT.The used system of installation is patching ISO DVD Deloper.Affluent sound from the first moment. I have had to install an Ethernet PCI SMC, to have net. But my only problem to solve is the acceleration 3D.
Somebody has solved this problem?
Thx.
Oct 10th, 2005
Pablo
Got Tiger up and running from the “deadmoo” image. Abit VT7, P4 Prescott 2.8 800 1mb cache, 1gb ram. System runs great after restoring the original kernel and coregraphics library (SSE3 Baby!). Net connection is via Intel Pro 1000 XT pci nic. Onboard sound works, but only through the left channel.. any ideas on this?
~P
Oct 12th, 2005
ak
I am not looking for lowest priced x86 mac os X 10.4 capable computer. I am trying to built a good looking value computer
that I will continue to use windows. I am looking for HW that I can do a native install
and the software will be as stable as the developer models.
Do I need a graphic card or should I use the on board graphics card?
Will all these components work with the lastest developers release? Any other suggestions?
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Oct 15th, 2005
no
Dude, that CPU is crap. Get one with 800 MHz FSB, so you can get HT. I have the 650, but a 630 should be a good value.
Oct 16th, 2005
rdL?
Just thought I would add that DEC 2114x-based network cards work under OS X. I have two OS X (86) machines running in my house on a network. I’m using this because, it works well, and I’m getting my mom used to OS X, so that maybe I’ll end up seeing more Apple computers show up in this house.
Oct 28th, 2005
whte_rbt
Anyone tried to do it with a SiS 651 chipset?
Nov 2nd, 2005
KAOSBLACK
DID ANY ONE GET A POWERCOLOR ATI 9200 128 RAM WORKIN YET I NEED DRIVERS N OSX 86 WORKED ON EVERY THING I TRYED TO INSTALL SO FAR N THAT WAS A TOSHIBA LAPTOP P4 ALL WORKED FINE THEN AMD 64 MSI WORKS FAST AS HELL AND THE OTHER A IBM NETVISTA DESKTOP KINDA BUGS OUT N NO SOUND I THINK THE OTHERS RUN PROGRAMS FINE BURNED DVD WITH TOAST I LOVE MY G4 IBOOK I HAVE BUT MY AMD WITH 0SX86 WORKS FASTER N BETTER TO BAD NO SUPPORT 4 MY M-AUDIO DELTA 1010LT
Nov 2nd, 2005
bartlin
i wonder how to do it
Nov 10th, 2005
Scotty
if you have to ask what to do, dont do it
Dec 8th, 2005
IMre
Hi all. I installed the VMWare image but it does not really seem to work. It starts, but just runs the CPU at 100% continuously and each click result takes long-long minutes to appear. Any idea?
Dec 9th, 2005
Tommy
Hi,
I booted with SuSE Live DVD and have done “dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/hda” on my Gateway M505 with Pentium M 1.5 Ghz, 2GB RAM, ATI Mobility Raedon 9600, HD on /dev/hda.
i stucked while booting Tiger at gray Apple Screen overnight.
tried -x, not help.
Please help, really wanna try it so bad :).
Dec 18th, 2005
Fred
Running Awesome. On a P4 3.2Prescott, 1GB Kingston HyperX on an Intel D875PBZ mobo. Insalled natively onto a WD Raptor. Forced 1280×1024 resolution with 32 million colors @85Hz via boot option on a Radeon 9800 pro. Patched to 10.4.3. All included apps run fine.
Dec 22nd, 2005
Dennis
i got an amd 64 3400 with 768mb ram, but i also have a p4 2.8ghz with 768 ram i cant run the mac osx on the amd can i cuz i would think itd be much faster
…..
Dec 25th, 2005
author
Fred, How much did your hardware cost? Where can it be bought?
Dec 30th, 2005
Robby
Hi Tommy
1.Had the same problem, in my case it was quite silly :-)
I used an old hdd I had laying around: No jumper! The jumper has to be there and it has to be set to “Master”, otherwise it gets stuck: “wating for boot device” (-v)
2. Hi Pablo..same thing, sound only left channel…anybody any ideas?
Dec 30th, 2005
IntoCRASH
I installed the 8f1111 version on my AMD Athlon 64 2800+ with 1.5GB ram, where everything works like a charm no far, except for the Delta 1010LT Audio. I do have an ATI 9200 Card and i was getting an error at the begining, but i entered in safe mode (-x) and downloaded the driver update for mac 10.2.0 or later and now the kernel is recognizing my display card.
If anynone has an idea on making my Envy24 or Delta1010LT Audio card working please let me know.
Thanks.
Jan 3rd, 2006
K0
Does anyone know if OSx86 will run M$Office over rosetta?
Jan 10th, 2006
cooper
thanks a lot. it runs!
Jan 10th, 2006
dream_theatre
Got a AMD Athlon 64 3700+ processor (939 w/SSE3), Asus Av8 mobo with the kt8t800 pro chipset and a AGP radeon X700 pro, 1GB of DDR
PC 3200. would OSX run on my system?
Jan 13th, 2006
xtraa
Well, yes. You can verify that in the compatibility list of the wiki of osx86project.org: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.3#Motherboards
Use my installation guide to install it NATIVE via VMWare if it wont boot for install:
http://www.win2osx.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1689&highlight=xtraa
good luck. install may be hard and nasty, but it is worth it :)
Jan 14th, 2006
Extingwisha
“Sure, I would gladly do that, if I didn’t already have a legitimate full install of 10.4, 10.3, 10.2, a 1.5 Ghz Powerbook, a Dual 1 Ghz G4 Quicksilver, a 350Mhz G3 Blue & White tower overclocked to 450Mhz, and a 600Mhz G3 iBook.
But then again, you didn’t know that, now did you?
I fixed the slow GUI problem, even though i wasn’t really complaining about it in the first place. On an informative note, my x86 osx machine opens apps faster than the shared single 1.8Ghz G5 Powermac in my house, and my 1.5 Ghz Powerbook.”
This is what ive been trying to find out, is its faster than a ‘real’ mac? I’ve got a 1.2 G4 iBook and a old skool b&w G3 i assumed OSx86 would run at snails pace a intel/amd hardware.
Any one know if its worth me buying a Beige Box in terms of speed? and graphics?
Jan 17th, 2006
Eka
i want to install MAC OS X X86 on My computer Its AMD 3200+ Socket 754 Chipset Nforce 3-250 HD 80 GB and 40 GB (RAID 1) Memory 512×2 VGA CARD 6600
But it always doesnt work it says unable to find com.apple.boot.plist
could you help me???
my emai addres is web_master3id@yahoo.com
Jan 18th, 2006
torinh
Built a Celeron 2.3 on a Matsonic MS9127C mobo. 1.25 Gig Ram (Pc2700), Intel 100 + Nic card, XGI V3 128 Meg PCI video, DVD Burner (BenQ), CD Burner (Lite On) and it just works! Dual boot either OS X 10.4.1 or XP Pro, Rosetta works with SSE2 patch, no speed issues at all, ITunes works, sound is there using CMedia (true) USB speakers! Video looks better than XP and plays MPEG4 rips flawlessly. Only thing that doessn’t work is DVD player.
Anyone know a workaround, or a 3rd party app that will fix the DVD playback?
Jan 23rd, 2006
Lars Schöning
My system is running perfectly appart from mouse and keyboard support which is somehow missing, got an 848P-A PIV, (Elitegroup), does anybody have a clue to get that working?
Jan 25th, 2006
Prestonx86
OK so here’s the deal, I installed x86 on my AMD sempron 3200. Everything is working fine except my Network card. I am stuck and don’t know what to do now, Is it a problem where i simply need to buy a new NIC or something more??? Thanks for the help.
-Preston
Jan 27th, 2006
Astyanax
I ran it fine with a amd 64 4000+ sandy, epox agp mobo w/6800GT, was stuck at 1024×768 on a 19″ widescreen, bugs the hell outa me
Feb 9th, 2006
slosh
can this be run on a dell 9300?
Feb 11th, 2006
xn
Hack OS X works out of the box in Turion64 laptops with core Lancaster, which has full SSE3 support (I’ve seen in thousands of pages that it only works on AMD64 with core venice). The performance in my computer is really amazing, it tooks only 0,5-0,2 seconds to start safari/finder/TextEdit/iPhoto, so it beats a real mac for sure (Not going to say anything about linux)
Feb 13th, 2006
Locust43
I have OS X Natively on my Gateway 7422GX, on a Arima Motherboard, AMD64 Mobile Athlon 3400+ processor at 2.2Ghz out of the box. LOL I did it just by burning a file onto a DVD and patching it and installing it by turningoff w/ cd in drive and turning laptop on.
Feb 19th, 2006
Anon
Installed the 10.4.4/5 “We stole it” DVD on a Dell 280 in just over an hour (including nabbing the machine from someones desk, shoving in another SATA drive, and installing an old intel ethernet card.
Everything worked… it was just as easy as installing OSX on a PPC Mac.
Mar 10th, 2006
Geoff
Hey, this is really interesting…I have a Dimension 4500, do you think majority of hardware would be supported? I have a 64 mb Geforce MX400 too. Also, how hard of a hack would it be to get my linksys wireless pci card working? Wireless work at all on x86 os x?
Mar 30th, 2006
w8n4pizza
euprhas,
No one is whinning here, looks to me like they are discussing successes and failures and trying to help dissolve division between one excellent OS and some non over-priced hardware. Why don’t you post your arrogant comments in an apple blog so the rest of you elitists can pat each other on the backs for coming up with such a clever comments?
- a mac user
Mar 31st, 2006
mattc
i installed the 10.4.4 (westoleit) dvd on a vanilla compaq presario s5300 (P4, 512 RAM) and booted up safari and went to /. haven’t gone back to check the sound, but props to all who contributed the 10.4.4 image. no glitches, no hitches. maybe this apple thing will work out after all.
now, i want to build a box for home. i’ve seen the list on 0sx85 wiki for the hardware compatability. does anyone have a list of mobos that work for all (10.4.3, 10.4.4, 10.4.5) mixes? I’m hoping to have a system that will be upgradeable to 10.4.6 if that ever happens.
Apr 3rd, 2006
noob
Well heres a easy no mess with windows for repeat testing on different machines running windows! (eg if a mate wants to test it out without losing anything)
this will make it easier for future mods and/or tests.
Tools
*norton ghost 2003 or similar product
*Partition magic or similar
*smart boot manager floppy
*spare harddrive for the setup
Right first follow general guides to write the deadmoo image to a harddrive, I used the windows way with dd.exe.
dd.exe can only see physical disks not the partitions on them hence the use of a spare hhd. (could probly copy to a specific Primary partition via a Live linux CD but I not use it much) I dont exclude the beginning sectors of the deadmoo image as I want to boot this disk/partition eventually
Once clone is performed, swap drives around so can be booted and is a working desktop change/create/delete root and user profiles and passwords to suit then once happy with setup, shutdown.
using norton 2k3 create a image from this disk via norton2k3 cd on boot
and create image file to windows partition or other network or usb drive
Put hhds back to original positions ide0 ide1 etc boot windows and you should see the ghost image you created where ever you saved it. all the hard work is done, now this will be easier to test on future machines or trials
On any compatible OSx86 computer use partition magic to create a another/second “primary” partition (not Logical!) of at least 6gig on any disk setup u may have and it doesnt have to be on the same harddrive the windows partition is on, eg: it could be on your spare 200gig drive on ide1, then ghost that OSx86 image you made to the partition you have created and there is no boot ini to edit or grub loader to install as I use *Smart Boot Manager 3.7.1, this program creates a boot floppy that on boot up, scans all drives and partitions and allows you to select which device to boot from. (good for real old comps that cant boot to a live linux cd)
Reboot With Smart Boot Manager floppy in a:\ select the unknown partition. When booting OSx86 the darwin loader will detect windows so you must enter startup options to select OSx86 to continue booting otherwise it will boot windows after the countdown as the windows partition is usually first in line in the partition table and so is first in line to boot..
For the critics out there.. remember this is to repeat installs of OSx86 using a windows occupied computer with one harddrive (or more) in ten minutes or less each time instead of having to use wmi tools and dd.exe everytime and risk picking the wrong destination drive as a result and have no after affects to the mbr as most dual booting can do when removing a trial OS
Apr 4th, 2006
Solyman
goes out and buys a mac…
NOT
silly mac are for dummies, everyone knows that.
Apr 10th, 2006
troisd
Here’s my custom built computer for 100% compatibility with OSX86 all the way to 10.4.5:
Motherboard Intel D915GLVGL
Processor Intel P4 S775 630 HT 3.0GHz FSB800 2MB Cache
Memory DDR400 1GB (2×512) CORSAIR Value Select
Harddrive HD ATA 300GB WESTERN DIGITAL - 8MB
DVD LG GSA 4167B Dual Layer
Hard drive could have been SATA but so what?
Graphics card is the integrated GMA900 which is 100% foolproof, and you can later add an ATI X1600 PCI for full glory.
The processor is fast enough to rule over any current dual-core iMac or BookPro.
I also bought a Goldship silver case that looks just like the G5 tower case… drool. A quick glance and anyone might think it is an actual G5! Unfortunately my LCD monitor and mouse/keyboard are black and is a certain giveaway.
Apr 12th, 2006
Thomas Brook
Is there a cheap Dell, or other off-the-shelf desktop and/or laptop I can run OS X?
Has anybody done this successfully? Which version of OS X did you run?
If anyone knows, please contact me at alienhairdo@yahoo.com
Thomas
Apr 14th, 2006
Thomas Brook
Or is there anyone here who could build me a Mac ?
Apr 14th, 2006
Lord Grahf
Ok guys heres the deal, Im not that experienced with Mac OS, So forgive my lack of knowlegde.
Now I first did an install of OS X86 10.4.3 using VMWARE…everything worked great..of course the speed was
slow as crap. But still everything worked. I used my friend’s dvd burner to make a copy of the patched ISO so i can install it on its own separate drive. I had no problems installing it what so ever!
Everything worked great…fast boot up, sound, NIC..everything…except my display. Everything is in black and white. and the resolution is just wrong. Ive seen this problem around the forums alot. Some people have seem to have gotten this problem fixed. Ive read some of the tips on how to fix this but its just not working for me.
I really want to get this fixed, so is there anybody out there that can help me with this problem, I also have a copy of OS X86 10.4.4, would that make it make a difference if I installed that instead?
Here are my computer specs
Dell Deminsion (cant remember what model number)
Intel ® Celeron ® CPU 2.40Ghz SSE2
Broadcom 440x 10/100 Intergrated Controller
Intel ® 537EP V9x DF PCI Modem
SoundMAX Intergrated Digital Audio
Creative AudioPCI (ES137, ES1373) (WDM)
Intel® 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
Hopefully this is enough info for whoever can help me out..
Thanks in advance!
Apr 18th, 2006
Jason
i have a 100 % Mac OS X 86 Native PC w00t. but i didn’t install it.
Apr 20th, 2006
Jason
my computer specs:
Intel Celeron D @ 2.40 ghz (with SSE3)
intel 845 chipset
intel pro 10/100 Network card
SoundMAX integrated audio
Intel onboard graphics @ 96 mb
@Lord Grahf. your specs look fine. you’ll run mac os x natively. expecpt. your processor is SSE2 which cannot run powerpc applications such as iTunes.
Apr 20th, 2006
boxboy
My specs:
AMD 64 (venice core) 3000+
nVidia nforce 4 mainboard
nVidia 6600GT PCI-Ex16
Hmm…. I heard that it was impossible to use an nVidia card as the Mac’s use ATI 9200’s, I put a hard drive I got from someone in my box to see if it would work before I went through the whole native install and it ran fine, however I have come to install darwin and it seems to have a problem with my OHCI (usb 2.0 i think) and just sits there and periodically says “Still waiting for root device” any ideas?
Apr 21st, 2006
Jason
yea. what version of the mac did u install?? 10.4.1. if it’s 10.4.1 then it has no drivers on USBS 2.0. get mac 10.4.5 DVD from torrent sites. bootable too. and it has alot of drivers. so u should do that with the 10.4.5 DVD
Apr 21st, 2006
Lord Grahf
lol…funny thing is..i actually can run itunes!! of course i still cant see a darn thing but..it works! Im still working with my display issue though…its getting really frustrating..
Apr 22nd, 2006
Gary
I’ve a Dell Inspiron 1200 Laptop. I got OSX to install, but not to run. That is, I could not reboot successfully into OS X. The Inspiron has a 1.3 GIG Celeron CPU. Could that be the issue? Not enough horsepower?
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Gary
Apr 22nd, 2006
Drogon
Gary, odds are the Celeron that you have lacks SSE3 or SSE2 support. That would be why it failed. I tried the same thing on my Aunt’s laptop (same model) and my patched install disk wouldn’t get past boot-up.
Apr 29th, 2006
SimpleSimon
BooHoo…
My new PC just doesn’t like OSX. If I don’t start in safe mode I get a message saying that I need to restart my computer.
Specs:
- Opteron 165, 64bit dual core CPU
- DFI LanParty UT nForce4 Ultra D mainboard
- 512meg DDR533 memory
- NVidia 7600GT PCIe 256meg video card
- Onboard nForce/Realtek sound
- Onboard nVidia gigabit ethernet + Onboard Marvell gigabit ethernet
- 120Gig Seagate PATA hard drive
Apr 30th, 2006
jason
well it does look like you can. opteron i’m not sure it has sse 2 or sse 3…PROUD TO SAY.I’M ON NATIVE X86 INSTALL OF MAC OS
Apr 30th, 2006
Jason Mac X86
I have Mac OS X 10.4.4 patched running native on my 2.2ghz Athlon 64 Clawhammer (No SSE3).
Everything seems to work OK except my built in network card is recognized but it ALWAYS says a network cable is unplugged and never gets conectivity. I downloaded some drivers from the internet for USB ethernet adapters and my USB ethernet adapter works great! Also I have a Geforce4 MX420 AGP Video card and it doesn’t seem to be supported although I downloaded some drivers for it from macvidia. iTunes full screen visualizer won’t work - it just turns the visualizer off when I choose full screen. Can’t get to iTunes preferences.
X doesn’t support my SATA RAID so I’m installed on a secondary IDE drive partitioned half and half with a HFS and FAT32 so I can swap files between Win & Mac.
Does anyone know how I can get higher screen resolutions than 1024×768? Any help for my other issues?
Gigabyte GA-K8NS Motherboard NForce 3 250 Chipset
(Built-in network not recognized)
8 channel AC97 Audio (Recognized but 2 channel only)
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ ClawHammer 1.8GHZ OC’d to 2.2GHZ (SSE2)
NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 420 64MB AGP (Works but only 1024×768 and no QE)
512MB Corsair XMS Series PC4400
SMC EZ Connect 2202USB/ETH Network
120GB Seagate Barracuda IDE HD
2×80GB Seagate Barracudas - RAID Stripe SATA(Not Recognized)
May 2nd, 2006
Daniel
Dear Thomas:
I am running Mac OS X 10.4.1 on my Dell Laptop 1150 using Deadmoo’s image and DD Utility. I could not install 10.4.3 or higher because the OS did not support my chipset.
I have also installed Mac OS X 10.4.3 thru 10.4.5 on Dell Optiplex 170L, GX-260 and GX-270 natively using DVD-ROM. All I had to do was make an adjustment in BIOS to use more Graphics Memory.
–daniel =)
———-
Dell Inspiron 1150
Mac OSx86 10.4.1
Intel 82855 Graphics
512MB Memory
40 GB Hard Drive
Broadcom 1350 Wireless
May 8th, 2006
Anthony
I’m sure that I’m only showing my ignorance by asking this, but how would you go about adjusting BIOS to use more Graphics Memory. I managed to use the DD Utility successfully, but the colors on the screen are distorted when I run OS X and I think this could fix it if anyone could tell me how it is done.
May 8th, 2006
Daniel
Dear Anthony:
Here’s the trick: Some computers allow adjusting the Graphics Memory while others do not.
If you are using Dell Computer, keep tapping the [F2] while the computer is first turned on. This will get you into Setup BIOS. If you scroll through the options, you may have an option the adjust the Graphics Memory.
I was able to adjust the Graphics Memory on Dell Optiplex 170L, GX-260 and GX-270. I was not able to adjust on Dell Inspiron 1150 because there was no option to do so.
–daniel =)
May 9th, 2006
Masai
i’m trying to install the img file in my hda1 and i cann’t. here is my code:
root@slax:/dev# dd bs=1048576 if=./sdb1/tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/sda1
dd: opening `./sdb1/tiger-x86-flat.img’: Not a directory
Can anyone help me on this ??? … i cannot find whats wrong can anyone help me on this ??? …
i use slax linux live cd
and my hardware is AMD FX-60 with 4GB RAM
thanks for ur time
May 9th, 2006
Dimos
I have an acer aspire 1802 laptop p4 3.00gh 80gb ati x600 and i would like to find out if it is possible to run mac osx. also can you give me the link to download it. thanx from greece
May 13th, 2006
zorpnic
I’m running an AMD-64 3500+, 320 GB hard drive with an 80 GB backup that could be used for surplus OSes. I’m interested in being a test dummy for anything that can be wrought as far as troubleshooting and heavy testing on the MAC OS X86 front goes. I’m running a Radeon 9800 Pro and using the Audigy 4 Pro card with 1 GB PC3200. The VM shell has got along with my computer as of thus far, so the complaints are at a minimum. I’ve got a couple of backup copies of MAC OSX. 10.4.3 and 10.4.5. I get kernel panics at even before I start, and I don’t want to basic or hexkey my way into getting things to run, as that nukes brain cells needed for staying sane and healthy right now. ;) So far, Deadmoo’s copy has been the only one that worked. I mean, if Gentoo Linux works on an NTFS drive scale, why wouldn’t the MAC based OS format work with my other drive sets? Got an answer, email me at zorpnic@gmail.com
Who knows? Maybe overnight we can topple the Gates of Doom.
May 14th, 2006
J
Guys - just BUY the MAC HARDWARE ALREADY!!!!
May 26th, 2006
Dan
Is it possible to run this on a P4 Hyper threading processor
May 28th, 2006
zoli
so…no os x on raid(0) array..? sataII compatible?
will os x work with data on other partitions on disc with windows on C: ?
May 31st, 2006
Constant
Hi,
Just a qestion, to be sure, by “running natively” you mean that a PC with Intel 915 shipset, Intel G900 video adaper and an appropriate CPU (SSE2, SSE3) Mac OS X x86 will install (boot with the official DVD) an run without any patching ?
Thanks and regards.
Constant
May 31st, 2006
Sandeep
i have an intel d845gebv2 motherboard with o 2.4 ghz 512 mb ram will i be able to run max os x 10.4.1
Jun 4th, 2006
Squish
Anybody know where i can get part 8 of the iso so i can install osX..?
Jun 5th, 2006
troisd
@ Constant
You need patching regardless because your PC won’t have that nasty TPM chip which provides hardware locking mecanism. The patch simply avoids the TPM chip checks. Other than that, you won’t need any further patching if your CPU has SSE3.
Here’s food for thought:
The setup below costs around $500
Motherboard Intel D915GLVGL
Processor Intel P4 S775 630 HT 3.0GHz FSB800 2MB Cache
Memory DDR400 1GB (2�512) CORSAIR Value Select
Harddrive HD ATA 300GB WESTERN DIGITAL - 8MB
DVD LG GSA 4167B Dual Layer
Tower case with power supply
Good silent CPU Fan
So while it definitely beats a Mac Mini Intel Duo in all specs, the cost benefit is not entirely there. I did it as a hobby. And yes, I’ll be getting a real Mac Intel as well.
Jun 6th, 2006
Constant
@troisd
Thanks, this make it more clear to me.
Even if I will also get a MacIntel, as you it’s for fun.
Regards,
Constant
Jun 8th, 2006
Justin
anyone try installing darwin from a prepatched disk? I downloaded it as an ISO and threw that on a cd, but when i boot from the cd, i cant run OS X. I finish the installation process, but dont know how to boot from it. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Jun 8th, 2006
shadowreign666
I want to triboot WinXP Pro, MAC OS X and Slackware Linux…on an AMD 4200+X2 MSI Neo4 Platinum, 1GB PC3200 RAM, Radeon X800GTO Fireblade Edtion 256MB…tips, suggestions..
email: shadowreign666@gmail.com
Jun 9th, 2006
Dhananjay
i have installed via tiger x86 tar bz2 but it hangs at display vram [0000000000:000000000] card is intel 845 cpu =p4(sse3 capable)
i can login at console how to i get to GUI
Jun 10th, 2006
rahul kalra
hiiiii ,,,there ,,i have installed mac os x on my standard desktop and one of my hp nx7010 laptop ,i have been using it for quite sometime ,,ne1 wants help regardin post installtion problems is most welcome ,,i am onlly left with fixing the wireless so i would b really thanxful if someone could help me about it ,,
thanx in advance
rahul(rah1915@yahoo.com)
Jun 10th, 2006
pramod
Hey sandeep,
i have the same components as you have. just look at the link shown below to check if you can run osx
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCLPart
Jun 11th, 2006
pramod
hai sandeep
i have p4 2.4ghz 512 MB RAM and 845GEBV2 MB as you have so if
you have any doubts just contact me at yeageek@yahoo.com
Jun 11th, 2006
Dean
Hi Rahul,
I have a hp nx7010 laptop and tried installing from a DVD. but could not get it running. I see a blank screen after I complete the installation and reboot the machine.
Any help would be appriciated.
Jun 12th, 2006
James
check it - http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=507&l1=1&l2=2&l3=0
perfect bare bone for running osx86 just need a processor :)
Jun 13th, 2006
rahul kalra
Hii there ,
Well i messed up with my Bios settings I have a HP nx7010 machine ,So I urgently want a dump of the bios of HP nx7010 ,It would be a great Help if any1 having the same machine could save their Bios dump and send it to me.
Thanx in advance
Regards
Rahul (rah1915@yahoo.com)
Jun 21st, 2006
zer0halo
I appreciate everyone keeping this alive, there is a good Jas 10.4.6 disk on the Demonoid that benches at 105-110 Disk access, Same as Quad G5.
it runs like a champ, but the QE needs to be patched from an earlier disk.
This disk runs natively off Intel Dual Xeon w/ 2 gigs RAM and 128 mb Nvidia graphics
And Natively means “STF-WA” “Stick it the fuck in and walk away”
Jun 21st, 2006
hardwaregenius
does anyone know if the SiS 661FX/964 chipset will work with osx?
if not, what drivers would i need (or what replacement grafix card (i really dont care if sound works, i can work that out on my own.)
…..all i really want is to have mac boot up and be semi-usable…….
Jun 24th, 2006
Archibald Tate
Will this work on a laptop like the compaq presario V5000T with Intel core duo processors? Site says graphics card is Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950 - Celeron. Not sure if it can be swapped out. Except for the mac powerbook g4, I think that the mac laptops are ugly so I’m reviewing options…including pc 12″ options.
Jun 25th, 2006
hardwaregenius
Will this work on a laptop like the compaq presario V5000T with Intel core duo processors? Site says graphics card is Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950 - Celeron. Not sure if it can be swapped out. Except for the mac powerbook g4, I think that the mac laptops are ugly so I’m reviewing options…including pc 12″ options.
———yes, it should work if you have a laptop that came with a core duo and has an intel chipset (any intel chip 815 and up should work.)
Jun 26th, 2006
howtheheck
I’m having trouble getting into the usb hard drive directory through terminal. I typed in /dev/media/USB-HDD and I get error messages. “Bad directory or file name” or something like that. I ls it and it says Desktop. Anyone know what is wrong?
Jun 27th, 2006
Anthony
I have a custom built pc with an AMD athlon 64 2800+, 80gb hdd, 1gb corsair pc3200 ram, saphire radeon 9800pro video card(AGP) and my motherboard is a gigabyte K8Triton. can my system run the Mac OSX natively with the 64bit mac OSX?
Jun 29th, 2006
Mac
To howtheheck….
try cd /Volumes
ls
and then find the USB-HDD from there.
For wireless, I am using a wusb54g by linksys, but you must go to Ralink site at the url http://www.ralinktech.com, and download the driver for RT71WUSB and install it with the adapter unplugged, reboot, then plug in the adapter, and it will recognize it, connect to your network with the wirelessusbutility that comes up, then enter system preferences and select the wireless connection, click apply, and voila!
I am using a Dell Dimension 4600c desktop with os x natively, it all works fine with the maxxuss prepatched os x 10.4.5 DVD.
I own one of the first Macbook Pros, and love it. If you get this to work on a pc, and you like it, I seriously suggest a real mac….a mac mini with core duo is cheap, and the experience is so much better with all of the other software that goes with the mac hardware.
Enjoy, and best of luck
Jul 4th, 2006
Nick
Well, I’ve too been trying to get Mac OS X on my PC, but I’ve been running into a hell of a lot of trouble.
I seem to be able to install the OS, but it hangs after it installs, and I can’t click the reboot button. Or if I have the installation show the all text so I can check for errors (or maybe, for some odd reason, when I install an upgrade copy over the original), it’ll get past the reboot button, but it will never actually reboot (just exit to a text prompt).
So I do a forced restart, and then after that it seems that the partition is unbootable. I’ve tried a couple different boot managers as well as just booting directly to the OS X partition. I get no installation errors, and I’m pretty sure I’m installing all the right patches (the default patches for Intel and AMD, and the AMD patches for SSE2). I’ve even tried it with SSE3 for the hell of it, and it makes no difference.
Could the forced reboot be killing it that much?
And would installing X11 be causing problems?
My specs:
Athlon 64 2800+
nforce 3 motherboard
1GB DDR400 memory (crappy brands)
2 x 200GB Seagate 7200RPM 8mb cache Ultra ATA/100 hard drives
ATI Radeon X850xt 128MB
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
16x DL DVD+/-R/RW
8x DVD+R/RW
Generic floppy drive
1 USB card and 1 Firewire card (not that those should make a difference)
Jul 5th, 2006
Nick
Also, is nforce 3 simply an incompatible chipset?
And sorry if my grammar is a little lax, I haven’t been getting much sleep lately.
Jul 5th, 2006
David
I have been looking into installing OS X on my PC recently.
Right now, I’m running a dual boot gentoo/xp system using grub.
Here are my specs:
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.2GHz processor
1GB RAM, i forgot what kind. Pretty sure its PC2700 or PC3200.
2 x 160GB Western Digital 7200RPM IDE hard drives
ATI RADEON X850 Pro AGP 8X/4X 256MB video card
forgot what sound card. i think its a Realtek AC-97.
NEC DVD+/-R/RW, either 16x or 32x.
lets see…the usual stuff. keyborad and mouse wont make a difference.
neither will printer.
oh yeah, a memory super drive on the front (USB/SD/MMC/SM/MS/MS-PRO/CF/MICRODRIVE)
but i doubt that makes a difference.
With this setup, is it possible?
Everyone is talking about Intel with OS X.
And if they do discuss AMD, which is rare, it is all a discussion of AMD64.
Thanks.
Jul 5th, 2006
graham
Hi All - I have all the hardware ready, and years of Linux and Solaris behind me ( and 40 earth years ) but either I am becoming dreadfully stupid, or i am doing somehting wrong… where … where does one get a copy of the deadmoo image for “evaluation” ? Sorry if this is a blisteringly stupid question - been ‘looking’ for 5 days now …
Jul 5th, 2006
Nick
Hi again, sorry guys, I might’ve seemed a little rude because I was tired.
Thanks for any help you might give me.
Jul 5th, 2006
troisd
Dudes… all you need to know is right here:
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
compatible hardware, howtos, etc.
Enjoy!
Jul 6th, 2006
Frakie
Anyone know where someone can get this iso?
Jul 20th, 2006
dope
try emule for “10.4.6 for Intel” and you’ll be fine =))
Jul 26th, 2006
Robin
Hi all,
I’m making also this nice intel-mac thing, and im wondering wich videocard is really good working? i have a Intel Extreme Graphics 2 controller on-board would this work just fine? or is there any other video card that really work nice? i can use all info because i’m tired of getting searched to this (alraedy for 2 weeks)
i thank you all already
Jul 30th, 2006
Sachira
I was seen the letter. I can’t Belive it . is this true. i have a P4 machine. Can I insttled Mac Os X 10.4 for that Machine. But I dont no what is the steps in the Case. I am student. Can u tell me witch steps i need to followed.
thanking u
Sachira Lakshan herath
Aug 2nd, 2006
Binu Jose
I have a P IV 2,4 Ghz,Intel 845 GEBV2, 256 MB DDR
Its around 4 yrs old. Its overall performance is satisfiable.But when I play games like NFS Most wanted, it display is quite poor,Sticky, and taking alot of time to start.
I am willing to buy a graphics card, please tell me the optimal one I should go for, price also.
Thank You
Aug 2nd, 2006
neil
tried 10.4.6.Myz.iso with Gigabyte GA-81945GZME-RH, Celeron D 331 with sse3 supported. I have tried many methods, but just cannot boot from the installation dvd. I am certain that the dvd is good. Computer hangs with a blank black screen. Is the motherboard in-compatible? Please can some one help me out.
Aug 3rd, 2006
neil
thank you
Aug 3rd, 2006
troisd
Dudes… ONE LAST TIME!
READ THIS SITE HERE:
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Check the compatible hardware list and check out the forum there. Get away from here TODAY!
Aug 7th, 2006
leo
kann ich Mac osx 86 auf einen Intel celeron 2.40 ghz sis chipsatz und
msi 648max l mit 2gb pc3200 ram laufen lasen.
Aug 23rd, 2006
leo.elias
Hello there, im about to migrate from my g5 1.6 to a homebrew mac, do you if theres any vompatible videocard with 2 videos out ?
Thank you a lot.
Aug 30th, 2006
XaaR
my 7800GT works so far…
but im stuck at the select language screen…
i can’t move my mouse and the keyboard doesn’t react
Aug 30th, 2006
mtesa
Use USB mouse.
Sep 1st, 2006
datelus
will it run on my celeron 1000mhz ? :S
Sep 2nd, 2006
Luigi
When I move a window in OS X x86, the mouse ‘blinks’.
I have an NVIDIA GeForce MX4000 AGP.
Sep 4th, 2006
blah
uhh run linux and shut up
Sep 5th, 2006
macbrocca
Hi !
Sorry a so simple question,but, at wich moment of the boot should I have to type ” -x graphicsmode=1280×1024x32@75 plataform=x86pc…”. or something like that—-during the count down? to change the resolution display .
working nice on a AMD64 3000+(no sse3),with a MSI K8T Neo 2 ,sound only one channel,and maxxuss patch 0.5c
Brasil
Sep 20th, 2006
Starlach
For all the pain and hassle you could just buy a macmini for the same or slightly more and have everything work out of the box and be assured that you will be able to use any upgrades / future software without problems. If you’re just into playing around with this sort of thing, then that’s cool. The idea that Apple hardware is overpriced is no longer true. If you want a cheap os that isn’t windows to run on your pc then use linux. Open source is a great thing and current linux distro’s are pretty fantastic. If you want the best of all worlds get a mac -you can run any/multiple os’s you want on it. If you want the best OS and hardware get a pro line mac.
Think Different
Sep 26th, 2006
Azzurra
Buon luogo, congratulazioni, il mio amico!
Nov 4th, 2006
slimwasim
i tried to install mac os x tiger, tiger-x86.tar on a PC config: AMD Athlon 64 3000+, socket 754, Asus A8N-E Deluxe via nForce 3 Motherboard, 1 Gb 400 Mhz Transcend RAM, Seagate 160 Gb SATA Hard disk , XFX Geforce 6600GT Graphics card… but after Darwin boots it stops saying “still waiting for source”
and nothing Happens i tried many ways but didnt work someone with any knowledge why this problem occurs and with some solution please help… thank you
Nov 23rd, 2006
Jo
I have a AMD Sepmron 2300, what version of Mac OS X x86 would work on it? i have searched every where for the awsner
Dec 5th, 2006
JonTec
‘Seems like a nice little project to me… this hasn’t been updated in a while, the AMD Turion processor has a sse3 setup, does anyone know if it will work? Also, what version of OSX have been tested and is there a site where we can see the progress thus far?
Jan 6th, 2007
SayCo
I did this but my audio and ethernet controller didnt work, anyone know where I can find the drivers? they’re a Sigmatel Audio and Intel pro/100
Jan 11th, 2007