gotta love osx

[kalster]

On my hackitosh I changed the motherboard from 945g based to ip35-e. right off the bat almost everything including network, sata, pata, video card worked, sound was a 1 line edit as well. I cant remember the last time I changed components in a windows system with so little effort

 

[TheStu]

Nice...

That actually reminds me of something Tyranicus did, he had a p4 based system (2.4GHz Northwood, Asus VIA chipset board) where the mobo died. Since he wasn't quite ready to buy a whole new system, he got a cheap Socket A system to replace it. The new board, although Asus, has the nVidia nForce2 chipset, and so is about as incompatible as you can get.

He happened to put in his old Vista hard drive (the one that was on the 2.4GHz P4), and it actually booted off of it. And not just booted, but went all the way to the OS, and worked! I had never heard of anything like that happening before in my entire life, and he and i both just sort of stared at the screen not believing what we were seeing.

 

[Nothinman]

On my hackitosh I changed the motherboard from 945g based to ip35-e. right off the bat almost everything including network, sata, pata, video card worked, sound was a 1 line edit as well. I cant remember the last time I changed components in a windows system with so little effort

Not to be a troll but that's not exactly revolutionary, Linux has been able to do that for quite a while now. Virtually every distribution runs udev from an initramfs to detect and load drivers for the current hardware similar to what LiveCDs do. Windows is a lot more hit or miss but a repair installation usually takes care of any major problems and gets you to the point where you can install any drivers necessary for the new hardware.

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

On my hackitosh I changed the motherboard from 945g based to ip35-e. right off the bat almost everything including network, sata, pata, video card worked, sound was a 1 line edit as well. I cant remember the last time I changed components in a windows system with so little effort

Not to be a troll but that's not exactly revolutionary, Linux has been able to do that for quite a while now. Virtually every distribution runs udev from an initramfs to detect and load drivers for the current hardware similar to what LiveCDs do. Windows is a lot more hit or miss but a repair installation usually takes care of any major problems and gets you to the point where you can install any drivers necessary for the new hardware.

i didnt say it was revolutionary, i was just excited, heh, i use linux on my other systems (not as my primary os),i was just anticipating lot more work on the hackitosh box (being hacked and everything)

 

[Nothinman]

i didnt say it was revolutionary, i was just excited, heh, i use linux on my other systems (not as my primary os),i was just anticipating lot more work on the hackitosh box (being hacked and everything)

Having no experience with hackintosh I'm just surprised that you got everything working in the first place. =)

 

[aphex]

So the Abit ip35-e works well for hackintosh?

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: aphex
So the Abit ip35-e works well for hackintosh?

yeh, very well, pata works too, only that i have found out is that the jmicron pata driver in osx does not play well with more 4gb or more ram (only have 2gb as of now) I haven't gotten around to testing sleep yet, it worked on my previous motherboard, need to check if it works with this one too

 

[bearxor]

Originally posted by: kalster
On my hackitosh I changed the motherboard from 945g based to ip35-e. right off the bat almost everything including network, sata, pata, video card worked, sound was a 1 line edit as well. I cant remember the last time I changed components in a windows system with so little effort

It's definitely nice at work to be able to pull the hard drive out of a failed mac, throw it in a replacement box, even if the replacement box is faster or slower or a completely different processor (speaking between G1-G3-G4-G5, not Intel) or a different video card or whatever, fire it back up and set it on the users desk and they have no idea the computer was ever changed.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: bearxor

Originally posted by: kalster
On my hackitosh I changed the motherboard from 945g based to ip35-e. right off the bat almost everything including network, sata, pata, video card worked, sound was a 1 line edit as well. I cant remember the last time I changed components in a windows system with so little effort

It's definitely nice at work to be able to pull the hard drive out of a failed mac, throw it in a replacement box, even if the replacement box is faster or slower or a completely different processor (speaking between G1-G3-G4-G5, not Intel) or a different video card or whatever, fire it back up and set it on the users desk and they have no idea the computer was ever changed.

It does work to a certain degree on the IntelMacs as well. I have booted Tyranicus's MacBook Pro off of a clone of my MacBook. Not sure about the Core 2s...