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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Found a use for my old Desktop Computer! - *Hint*.. Mac

Let me start off with a little about this Desktop (That I am typing this on right now).
Me and my Bud Alex built this computer about 5 years ago when I wasn't as tech savvy as I am now.
He and a Computer Tech he knew picked out the components for my computer in a reasonable budget from Newegg. We put the computer together in my basement after all (what we thought was all) the parts arrived. We had it all put together (my first time building, his second I believe) in about 3 hours total. We took it up into my bedroom and turned it on... There was a very loud BEEEEEP!. Apparently we didnt order RAM -_-.. So we had to order that and then it worked! I used that has my computer for about 4 years and some months, then about 6 months ago I bought Alex's Laptop that he was selling for extra money, its an ASUS G50vt-x1 Gaming Laptop. So I haven't used my desktop for about 6 months. Yesterday I decided I needed to put it to use and have some fun with it. I decided that I was going to put Mac OS X on it and use that as the main OS, I had put Mac on it before but it was along side Windows 7 Beta and Vista Ultimate, even though the Mac install broke somehow (my fault.. I mess with my OS's).

So now I have a full Mac only Box. I have installed Mac OS X 10.5.8 with iDeneb 1.6 Lite Edition as my distro/install DVD.

It took me a while to get my PS/2 keyboard recognized but it was because I was editing the wrong .kext because I didnt know it had changed (which was my fault I checked a different version then the one I was used to from previous installs).
My sound also took a bit to get working. I had installed VooDooHDA which I didnt need so I had to remove that and get the AppleAC97Audio.kext which didnt fix the problem, I still had no audio.. I had to remember what I installed from iDeneb 1.4 10.5.5. I found the ALC850 package and installed that, now I have fully working audio!
Everything else worked right off the bat because I knew what needed to be installed with the OS.

I have:
Fully working  Graphics with QuartzGL and Quartz Extreme supported: nVidia GeForce 6600
Recognized RAM: 1.5GB
Fully working processor (obviously other this wouldnt be working): AMD Athlon 3000+
Motherboard: nForce 4 SLI GA-K8N
Working audio: ALC850 AC97 Codec
Hard Drive SATA RAID 250GB


I am very excited to do some fun stuff on Mac now! I am downloading Snow Leopard as I type this and I am debating installing that somehow.

Thanks for reading.

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