To start with I selected ‘Load Optimized Defaults’, save and exited in case the HDD needed to be redetected, then went back into the BIOS. After installing all the components into the case (I used a SATA hard drive and port closest to the edge of the board) and having downloaded iATKOS V7 iso from one of the usual sources and burnt it to a DVD I had a quick wade through the BIOS to check the settings. OSX86 compatibility, including QE/CI (a bit like DirectX for Windows this does not work with the onboard Intel GPU)Įventually I found the winner, an MSI N8400GS D512H graphics card which provided, as I discovered, near out-of-the-box functionality with OSX86 with only one box needing to be ticked in the setup – and that was good enough for me.As it happens, support seems to be pretty dismal on Ubuntu as well, so after hours of research I found a graphics card that fit my requirements: It was a toss-up between Ubuntu 9.10 and an OSX86 Hackintosh flavour and in the end Ubuntu won, but only because it was marginally quicker to boot up and support for this setup on the XBMC forums seemed to be a little better.Īnyhow, I think that at least a few people should find this walk-through useful so I thought I’d write it up.Ī word of warning before we begin – the highest resolution currently possible by the onboard Intel X4500 graphics card is 1280 x 1024px, nowhere near big enough to fill the 1920 x 1080 px resolution of the 37″ widescreen Toshiba TV I wanted to use it with. Originally I bought this motherboard with the intention of running XBMC on top of OSX. Please note: I’ve done another post detailing how to get OSX86 working (on iDeneb v1.5.1) with the same motherboard and an NVIDIA card, as the onboard Intel graphics don’t have full functionality.
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