News on the wire from blog follower and commentator Mika on his successful OSX Snow Leopard install on his dual-quad Xeon Intel S5520SCR build. His workstation is pretty much identical to mine in all the ways that matter, only I’ll be using the 6-core Xeon CPU’s. This will form the basis of the “Rebel” workstation which I will soon be offering to clients as a turnkey system. (See announcement here – Coming Soon! Weapons of Mass Construction)
Ok, I got mine running finally. most part was just to put it together. Mac OSX installed easily using tonymac boot image on dvd and retail Snow Leopard. I was actually expecting lot more hassle, but it was quick OS installation. Nvidia 480 works out of the box too, I thought it’d also give a bit working out.
Few Notes:
- Remember to put SATA into AHCI mode!
- Initial boot disk is 32bit; i removed all but one 2GB mem module from each bank; after installation and upgrading to 64bit i put modules back and it works fine.
- For now the onboard intel network chips are not recognized. i will have to work this out either by finding suitable kext or getting addon card. docos indicate the chip used should be macosx suitable, but my machine just does not see these; except when probed directly it tells the hardware and chip info. so i’m fairly sure i can make these to work with a bit of digging around.For PSU, remember that each CPU requires separate 8 pin power feed. you likely will need to use 4to8 expanders. be sure you do not overload the PSU 12V circuits. (i dont think this is major issue)
It’s fast.
=)
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thanks man
Hello, I’m working on a hackintosh based on the S5520SC as well. Have you solved the nic driver problem yet? Also, do you have sleep working? I’ve tried multibeast for the nic issue, but no go.
Hi!
Thanks for the comment. My project build got totally stalled. I haven’t been able to start yet! I haven’t heard of any breakthrough solutions on the NIC front yet. I would try a separate gigabit networking card.
Sorry I can’t be of more help. I feel a bit useless that I haven’t started my build yet.
Rich
definitely the solution is get a new LAN card? the audio works fine? you didn’t try you didn’t tried installing lion yet?
I’m buying the same hardware, I really appreciate the info
thanks!