[Guide & Software] Complete Intel Bad Axe 2 Walkthrough with Software

[badaxe2]

Hey guys, i have installed on my bad axe 2 using kalyway dvd using efi/mbr, there is only one problem and that my processor show's up as its original speed and not the overclocked speed. my processor is e6320 overclocked from 1.86ghz to 2.87ghz. any ideas on how i can get apple to show correct speed ? Oh and by the way, my marvell sata controllers work fine with osx maybe its because i have a different revision. my revision is 507.

[tuukka H]

I was just wondering that are u people running leopard as 64 bit? I dont have that legacy option in boot.plist but I think that this system is still running as 32 bit.

[The Baron]

any ideas on how i can get apple to show correct speed ?

 

There isn't a way to do it automatically, but if you look at post 1 on this thread, Weaksauce has explained how to hack the info and desplay anything you wish...

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=576689

[daxv]

@daxv: Sorry for being late!

 

So, your screens look OK so far, your problem seems to be with formatting your hdd in MBR.

 

DVD on IDE is OK for install and works very well. You install to a sata-drive, right?

 

HDD on black sata is OK

 

check your BIOS Version but it doesn't look like a BIOS-Problem.

 

HDDs configure as IDE in BIOS (AHCI might work too, but you get the orange icons).

 

To go fast to success now i would recommend to use the 10.5.1 Kalyway DVD and install new complete with MBR, this works in one step without doing something in the terminal, but consider this after the DVD is loaded and you go first to Disk utility (in the menu) to prepare your drive:

 

On Partitioning your Drive: I would recommend (to have at least one time success with installing) to make just one partition, under "options" make sure you used "MBR" as Partitiontype for your HDD, if your'e not allowed to Format in MBR then format the whole drive first in MSDOS and/or other formats, directly after that you should be able to format it new with HFS(journaled) and MBR.

Hope that helps a bit. If this isn't possible then there must either a problem with your hd (try another) or with your install-dvd, i guess the hdd has something which woudn't let you do mbr, don't ask, its just guessing, you can also try to install to an external usb-hdd, this works also.

 

If this works and after you restarted imediately after the BIOS-Screen hit F10 and choose your HD to which you installed as boot-disk and hit enter, then your system starts. If you installed to a usb-drive make sure that you marked "boot first from usb" in the BOOT-Screen of the BIOS. Then, in case of usb-drive wait a minute or two it will load the darwin bootloader then, usb is a bit lame and takes a bit time to boot, in the case of the built-in sata-drive it should immediately boot the darwin bootloader.

 

Hope that helps abit, good luck!

 

Problem solved !!!

 

but i've found another solution through multiples post and i'm running GUID /EFI 8 on my bad axe 2 !

for people interested and how i fix that :

Used a Empty HDD in SATA / Boot Kalyway 10.5.1 DVD / partition with disk utility GUID / let the installation finish / reboot with DVD, go To terminal to make active the GUID partition

In terminal, type the following:

bash-3.2# fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX [enter] (X = 0 in my case)

fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

Enter 'help' for information

fdisk: 1> update [enter]

Machine code updated.

fdisk:*1> f Y [enter] (Y = the 'Y' in your rdiskXsY…in my case it was 2, space beetween f and number)

Partition 2 marked active.

fdisk:*1> w [enter]

Device could not be accessed exclusively.

A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] y [enter]

Writing MBR at offset 0.

fdisk: 1> q [enter]

bash-3.2# reboot [enter]

 

reboot with DVD, go To terminal to re-installing EFI 8

 

You've now made your GUID partition active.

Next it's time to re-installed efi

Installing EFI :

This assumes you have a thumb drive prepared to install efi v8. In my case, my thumb drive is labeled bootloader. Boot back to your install DVD. Check again for your GUID volume ID. Don't assume it's the same as it was before. Now go to Terminal and do the following :

 

diskutil unmountDisk disk0 [enter] (the disk ID in my case)

unmount of all Volumes on disk0 was successfull

cd /Volumes/bootloader/pc_efi_v80 [enter]

./startuptool /dev/rdisk0s2 ./boot_v8 [enter] (disk0s2 is GUID partition ID in my case)

HFS+ filesystem detected

looking for 1 words free

reading 4096,4096

reading 8192,4096

Marking word 898

Writing back 8192,4096

allocated blocks 32 at start 61504

dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2 bs=512 count=1 [enter]

1+0 reccords in

1+0 reccords out

512 Bytes transferred in 0.001146 s...

dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk0 bs=400 count=1 [enter]

1+0 reccords in

1+0 reccords out

400 Bytes transferred in 0.006747 s...

Cross your fingers and reboot and you should have a working GUID system.

(BTW, this was tested on the ICH7 controllers not the Marvell controllers)

 

and reboot without DVD,

after used revirginizing package of Kalyway to get rid of customisations,

http://rapidshare.com/files/83213596/Resto...ttings.zip.html

 

then installed CS3 suite and all seems fine, sleep works..etc

 

(i've not replaced the kext (usb stick) notified in the original guide )

 

Thanks everyone, feels better now

 

BTW; i've 8 Go Ram , system see all but Photoshop see only 3 Go, what ?

[theotherone]

daxv: great! Congrats!

 

in case of RAM: I think PS takes as much ram as its needed, but im no expert with PS, maybe there are other ressources which consumes your memory, take a look at it with Activitymonitor (in the Folder Utilities under Applications).

 

cheers

[theotherone]

I'm finally in heaven!

 

After a few days with problems because of two different RAID-cards in my rig (several "hangs") i returned one of my RAID controllers and decided to invest in a totally new high-end one: A RocketRaid 3520 (with INTEL IOP341, 800 MHz, RAID 6-Support, "fastest RAID-Controller for Mac" says Highpoint...). After Heavy formatting and configuring a RAID 5, shuffeling data to it etc., i finally brought my 2 Raptor 150 GB in RAID 0 to it and everything disk-related goes through the roof (xbench >600 for disk)!

 

Also, finally i found a way to install 10.5.1 on the RAID 0 Raptors with EFI8 without relaying on the flaky CopyCatX. Diskwise i'm there yet, will migrate to RAID 6 for my data-disks later if i have 2 more HDs for my data-partitions.

 

Absolutely overkill for a workstation, but the fast controller will move later to a server, wher he is adequat for.

 

Now back to OCing, 3 - 3,2 GHz should be enough...

 

I'm really tired of moving terabytes of data around, im glad that i'm now on a stable and fast platform (knock on wood...).

[weaksauce12]

theotherone, haha awesome! Tthat's a beast of a card!

 

To the thread in general: I just started a new semester so I've been pretty swamped between that and a huge work project, but I have Friday and Saturday off. Here is what's on my plate:

 

1. Revision 2 (files done, just finishing documentation)

2. IDE testing (IDE DVD, IDE HDD, IDE PCI RAID)

3. SATA testing (SATA PCI, RAID SATA PCI)

4. Overclocking - temperatures

 

If there's anything else in particular you want to know while I'm testing, just drop a note here in the thread. See ya this weekend!

[The Baron]

theotherone, haha awesome! Tthat's a beast of a card!

 

To the thread in general: I just started a new semester so I've been pretty swamped between that and a huge work project, but I have Friday and Saturday off. Here is what's on my plate:

 

1. Revision 2 (files done, just finishing documentation)

2. IDE testing (IDE DVD, IDE HDD, IDE PCI RAID)

3. SATA testing (SATA PCI, RAID SATA PCI)

4. Overclocking - temperatures

 

If there's anything else in particular you want to know while I'm testing, just drop a note here in the thread. See ya this weekend!

 

Great news, looking forward to trying Revision 2 (though R.1 is working great here thanks, I just like the latest & greatest!)

 

It would be nice to have an EFI 8 solution too, BJMoose's thread looks promising though I could only get it semi working by using an existing install.

 

When I try your new guide I'll have a play around with EFI 8 and report back,

 

The Baron.

[weaksauce12]

SuperDuper is now Leopard-compatible:

 

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/05/at-long-las...ble-superduper/

 

"Mac backup software SuperDuper now works with Leopard. Version 2.5 also allows you to store your SD cloned backup alongside Time Machine backups."

Their server is getting nailed right now! I managed to snag the download (2.8mb ZIP) and uploaded it to RapidShare: (free version of course)

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/89399782/Super...r_.dmg.zip.html

 

Update: IT WORKS!!!

 

I cloned my 250gb boot drive to my 500gb drive. I had 40 gigs of data and it took approximately 30 minutes (less than a minute per gig - VERY FAST!). Shutdown the computer, unplugged my 250, and booted up using the 500 - took an extra minute to load everything up for the first time, but it works!

 

WE NOW HAVE A WORKING HARD DRIVE CLONING SOLUTION!!

[weaksauce12]

More good news:

 

I installed my PCIe 2-port RAID card tonight (an inexpensive Rosewill SI3132-based model) along with two 500gb 7200rpm SATA drives and configured them as RAID 1 (Mirroring). I used SuperDuper to clone my Boot Drive to the RAID Set.

 

It worked!

 

My boot drive is 250gb and the RAID set is 500gb and all 500 gigs were recognized!

 

Happy day! The entire setup was painless...no special settings in SuperDuper (although I did check the "Repair Permissions First" button just for fun). About half an hour to clone 40 gigs worth of data. Yippie!

[weaksauce12]

I gave Software RAID a shot with SuperDuper, but it was a no-go: (SoftRAID being the name of my Software RAID 1 set)

 

| 11:38:42 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Erasing SoftRAID

| 11:38:42 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Preserving SoftRAID UUID

| 11:38:42 AM | Error | 2008-02-06 11:38:42.763 SDDiskTool[163:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

 

The error may be either that Software RAID as a boot drive isn't supported, or more likely that I need to setup EFI strings instead of kexts to get rid of the UUID errors. I also tried it with Software RAID 0, same deal. This will require further testing.

[Nano07]

Hey guys,

 

Anyone got the TV out working?

 

I'm testing my two Video Cards and I can't get TVOUT to work. Any hints?

 

- GF 8800 GTS 512MB

- GF 8800 GTS 320MB

 

I had the 512MB installed first (with NVInstaller v.31), but then I bought a 320Mb. So I took the 512Mb out, put the 320Mb in and restarted the computer. After that I tried installing the Graphic Drivers (from weaksauce's guide), to see if I could get TVOUT working, but I get an error at the end of the install wizard (can't run the final installation scripts).

 

Everything still works, but no TV out.

 

I was thinking of unistalling all Graphic Drivers and start from scratch, BUT... dunno how to do that hehe

 

Any help will be much appreciated

[Leoopardoo]

Anyone having sleep working with BadAxe2 and nVidia 8800GT (512MB) ?

[theotherone]

Update: IT WORKS!!!

 

I cloned my 250gb boot drive to my 500gb drive. I had 40 gigs of data and it took approximately 30 minutes (less than a minute per gig - VERY FAST!). Shutdown the computer, unplugged my 250, and booted up using the 500 - took an extra minute to load everything up for the first time, but it works!

 

WE NOW HAVE A WORKING HARD DRIVE CLONING SOLUTION!!

 

 

This is really really great news! I downloaded my SD2.5-upgrade the minute it was posted, i even backed up several gigabytes, but didn't try the bootable solution, will do now tomorrow. SD is simply the best, i used it for years and it never let me down.

[cable909]

Hey Guys,

 

So I made it through the first two steps of the guide. I'm trying to reboot w/o the cd and the grey apple screen is just hanging with the spinning wheel (its been stuck at this for about 10 minutes now.) I'm assuming something is wrong but was just curious if anyone else has encountered something similar and how they might have diagnosed / resolved.

 

Thanks,

-jd

[weaksauce12]

This is really really great news! I downloaded my SD2.5-upgrade the minute it was posted, i even backed up several gigabytes, but didn't try the bootable solution, will do now tomorrow. SD is simply the best, i used it for years and it never let me down.

 

Yeah, I live by SuperDuper so I'm truly relieved to see it released for Leopard! And super excited to learn that it works on Hackintosh! Here is my progress tonight:

 

UUID Error:

I have been attempting to get Software RAID sets to act as boot drives. The first problem I ran into is that I got UUID Error 35 when SuperDuper tried to erase my OS X RAID set before cloning to it. Stella hooked me up with a custom plist to get rid of the UUID error (also fixes Time Machine/Ethernet but only for EFI 8 users!); here's a Zip:

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/89780723/UUIDfixer.zip.html

 

That file is for EFI 8.0 users ONLY! Do NOT use it on EFI 5.2! My EFI 8.0 guide is not ready for release yet for various reasons including bugs, so go with BJMoose's guide if you need EFI 8.0 for now.

 

Software RAID:

 

With the UUID problem solved, now I could get to work copying. The cloning worked perfectly; however, it would not boot. The drives were not even recognized. Next I tried SoftRAID, a third-party OS X software RAID driver:

 

http://www.softraid.com/

 

That gave me an error on boot about not finding the boot plist. So - my initial report is that Software RAID sets configured as Boot Drives do NOT work. This report is based on a couple quick test runs, that's all. I'm not saying it can't be done, in fact K.I.S.S. has his own thread on this and seems to have gotten it working:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=85943

 

I'd like to know for sure whether or not it works but I'm not sure how deep I want to dig with all the other projects on my plate right now. I'm not sure how Software RAID disk management would work when a hard drive dies either. So there's my preliminary report and I'm leaving it at that right now - if anyone else wants to run with it, they're more than welcome to.

 

Hardware RAID:

 

So what we now for sure right now is:

 

(1) SuperDuper works flawlessly for cloning Hackintosh installations on the BA2

 

(2) It IS possible to clone to a Hardware RAID set and boot from that RAID set. Many thanks to theotherone for his guide (posted here and separately) and for laying the ground work on this! I am using a sub-$30 2-port PCIe SATA RAID card from Newegg (Rosewill with SI3132 chip from Silicon Image) and it works flawlessly in my BA2 Hackintosh both as a secondary RAID drive set and as a boot RAID drive set. I haven't gotten RAID 0 working yet (only RAID 1 so far) so I'll report back with some Xbench scores on the RAID 0 if/when I get it working. I need to update my firmware and drivers first.

 

Back to finalizing Rev. 2 documentation

[weaksauce12]

Stella had a wonderful idea for his backup system set up, which I am going to post here. I'm also adding SuperDuper into the mix. You will need two hard drives. I am using a 250gb drive and a 500gb drive in my example.

 

The Ultimate Backup System: (for locally-connected drives, i.e. internal, USB, Firewire, eSATA)

 

Disk 1: 250gb, 1 partition

> Partition 1: "Boot Drive"

 

Disk 2: 500gb, 2 partitions

> Partition 1: "Backup"

> Partition 2: "Emergency" (10gb)

 

Disk 1, my 250gb drive, is the drive I currently use for booting up. It has Leopard installed as well as all of my settings, software, and files. Disk 2, my 500gb drive, is my backup drive. It is larger than my boot disk and can hold plenty of backups. The backup drive houses the backup files for two backup applications:

 

1. Time Machine

2. SuperDuper

 

Time Machine is Apple's automatic backup program in Leopard that creates backups of your files for as far back in time as your hard drive space will allow. SuperDuper is a program from Shirt Pocket that clones your hard drive. You can choose to clone to a partition, an entire hard drive, or simply to an image file. To "clone" means to make a perfect copy of your entire hard drive to another hard drive, or to an file (called an image file) to restore later. SuperDuper 2.5 allows you to create an image file right alongside your Time Machine backup. That means that not only do you have a full history of files backed up with Time Machine, but your also have all of your system settings and apps - exactly as you have them configured right now - available to copy back over. SuperDuper's automatic backup feature (aka "Smart Update") is unlocked when you purchase the program ($28, very reasonable), otherwise you have to do the backup manually (yuck!). So go buy the program!

 

Now you've got a system backup thanks to SuperDuper and a files backup thanks to Time Machine. What next? How do you restore everything? There's a very, very simple way thanks to SuperDuper. The basic idea is to create a bootable partition on the backup drive (the "Emergency" partition mentioned above) that you will use to copy your system clone image to your boot drive. First, create a 10gb partition on your secondary Backup hard drive. Second, clone your fresh install (with SuperDuper installed) onto that partition. So essentially you are cloning a nice, fresh, clean copy of Leopard to the 10gb partition to use as an emergency boot installation. So, if your primary hard drive dies or you have some sort of major software error, you can simply boot up to that partition from the boot menu, open SuperDuper, choose the image file on the Backup partition, and clone it to your boot drive! Once it's copied over, you can boot up to that drive and then use Time Machine to restore the very latest copy of the files. You don't necessarily need Time Machine if you have SuperDuper run on a daily basis, but the advantage is that it keeps an archive of changed files so you can go back in time and snag an older copy. The end result is:

 

1. No need for optical discs to restore

2. Very fast restore (hard drive boot and drive-to-drive copying)

3. Full system restore (Leopard, settings, programs, and files)

4. Full file/file history restore (thanks to Time Machine)

5. Full automatic backup

6. Super easy to use (automatic backup, fast restore, plenty of files backup)

 

Additional Backup Options:

 

There are two other backup options I'd like to talk about right now:

 

1. Restoring a SuperDuper clone when you don't have a spare bootable drive

2. Backing up over a network

 

You can use the Leopard disc to boot and then restore a SuperDuper image file to the hard drive using Disk Utility's restore function (I am also testing Leopard on a USB stick as a method to restore, as soon as my new USB memory stick comes in). This requires booting up to the Leopard disc and then waiting to use the Disk Utility app to get the image onto your boot drive. I haven't tested the speed yet but I would imagine it's slower, as well as less convenient than simply booting off a spare partition.

 

You can also back up over a network. Time Machine supports this using a 3rd-party application called iTimeMachine and SuperDuper supports it via mounting a network volume (see pages 18 and 19 of the PDF manual). You can also change how often Time Machine backs up using another 3rd-party app called TimeMachineEditor. Using a VPN or other tunneling-type software, you can even back up over the Internet to a server or another computer in another location. This way you can get off-site backups very easily!

 

Conclusion:

 

Bottom line, with the simple addition of a second hard drive and some software, you can have a fully-automated, easy backup and cloning system. Never get screwed by your computer again! If you haven't been bitten by the backup bug (i.e. had a bad experience and lost important data), it's only a matter of time before it happens. Save yourself from the train wreck now and jump on this!

 

This is an introductory guide. When I release Revision 3 with EFI 8.0, I will include a Guide that explains Backups and Cloning in detail. I still have a lot of testing and procedure note-taking to do, but this should get you started if you're handy with software

[macstah]

Hi Weaksauce12

 

Thanks for all the effort in the guides, posts, and testing you have been doing. Much appreciated!

 

-M

[weaksauce12]

Hi Weaksauce12

 

Thanks for all the effort in the guides, posts, and testing you have been doing. Much appreciated!

 

-M

 

Hey thanks! I feel that with Rev 2, we have a perfect EFI 5.2 system (mainly thanks to Patrick's updated IONet kext). Once EFI 8.0 is under control, we'll have GTP/GUID for repartitioning boot drives easily - and that's it! The sound card issue is fixed via a USB sound card and the Marvell SATA controllers can be replaced via a PCIe SATA/RAID card, so everything is peachy. The IONet string works and people can customize an NVinject plist if they want to for their individual cards.

 

For the future, I am looking at another quad board - the DFI Bloodiron/Lanparty. It is similar to the Bad Axe 2 but has 6 SATA ports instead of 8 (but I believe they all work) as well as working onboard audio. In addition, it supports Penryn and costs $40 less than the Bad Axe 2 ($140 at Newegg). There are a few people that have been testing it so I am monitoring the results with great interest. The DFI board could prove to be the new "Gold Standard" for single-processor Hackintosh systems.

 

Also quick update on the image cloning - I'm trying to restore a sparse image using the patched Leopard boot disc but haven't been successful yet. It clones in about 20 minutes, then I reboot and it gets to the white Apple logo screen and the graphic just spins forever.

[caseyh]

Hey thanks! I feel that with Rev 2, we have a perfect EFI 5.2 system (mainly thanks to Patrick's updated IONet kext). Once EFI 8.0 is under control, we'll have GTP/GUID for repartitioning boot drives easily - and that's it! The sound card issue is fixed via a USB sound card and the Marvell SATA controllers can be replaced via a PCIe SATA/RAID card, so everything is peachy. The IONet string works and people can customize an NVinject plist if they want to for their individual cards.

 

For the future, I am looking at another quad board - the DFI Bloodiron/Lanparty. It is similar to the Bad Axe 2 but has 6 SATA ports instead of 8 (but I believe they all work) as well as working onboard audio. In addition, it supports Penryn and costs $40 less than the Bad Axe 2 ($140 at Newegg). There are a few people that have been testing it so I am monitoring the results with great interest. The DFI board could prove to be the new "Gold Standard" for single-processor Hackintosh systems.

 

 

so i can add up to 2 PCIe SATA/RAID card? would you mind linking to the exact card you got to work perfectly?

 

possibly dumb question : I do have several PCI ide raid cards, would those would not work if i use the onboard SATA ports? PCIe is different completly then?

[weaksauce12]

so i can add up to 2 PCIe SATA/RAID card? would you mind linking to the exact card you got to work perfectly?

 

possibly dumb question : I do have several PCI ide raid cards, would those would not work if i use the onboard SATA ports? PCIe is different completly then?

 

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx...N82E16816132008

 

I don't know if you can run two cards, but I don't see any reason why not. iirc some Highpoint RocketRAID models only allow the use one 1 card per system, but there are also people who run large port multiplied arrays so I really don't know. I will be testing RAID 0 as well to see if I can get that working.

[weaksauce12]

Ahah, figured out the problem - SuperDuper on Hackintosh doesn't like to be restored to a partition, apparently. I had my primary boot drive split into two partitions. So here's what I did:

 

1. Booted up to my patched Leopard disk (Kalyway Make Bootable will probably also work)

2. Opened Disk Utility

3. Re-partitioned my boot drive to 1 partition and formatted (well it automatically formatted it)

4. Mounted the cloned image in the Disk Utility Finder window

5. Restored the image to the hard drive (it's all drag-and-drop, btw)

6. Rebooted and voila!

 

Woot!

 

This also means that you can keep a pristine image on anything accessible by your patched Leopard disc, such as a USB thumb drive or Firewire hard drive. That way you can keep a nice, safe copy tucked away for a quick restore of a clean install whenever you want - without having to go through all the steps in my guide all over again!

 

I'm turning into a security addict here:

 

1. 2 x 500gb drives in RAID 1 for booting (one drive failure means no downtime)

2. 1 x 500gb drive for backup (SuperDuper image + Time Machine folder + bootable pristine partition)

[dust'n the callipygous]

I'm finally looking to start my Hackintosh! This will be my first ever computer build. I'll be using it primarily for video editing. How's this setup look?

q6600 and bad axe2 ($430)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...&CatId=2406

 

2x 2gb ram ($68)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820145034

 

500gb harddrive (osx) ($100)

320gb (xp) ($75)

is it going to be worth my money to get a 150gb raptor for osx?

 

640mb 8800gts ($290) Is this card overkill? Will I be fine with a 320mb for $200?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130317

 

I'm still undecided on a case/power supply/cpu fan. Any suggestions? I'm trying to stay cheap.

 

Should try the DPI board, or stick with the bad axe2? Is there any downside to purchasing open box?

 

Am I missing anything?

[zooplaboom]

Hi!

 

->weaksauce : using an internal PCI-e SATA card seems to be a good idea to improve disk access performance (which is the weakness of the BA2 based Hackintosh).

 

I didn't manage to find Rosewill here in France.

 

However, I found a card on eBay. Here are the specs :

PCI-E SATA 2CHANNEL (INT) CONTROLLER CARD (NON RAID)(SUPPORT VISTA) W/RETAIL BOX

Specification:

* Silicon Image SiI 3132

* Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification 1.0a

* Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification with support for full complement of SATA II optional features

* Installs in any available PCI Express slot and supports data transfer rates up to 3.0Gbps

* Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Non-zero offsets NCQ, and Out-of-order data delivery NCQ

* Supports Windows® 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista

 

As you can see, it's a Sil 3132 chip based card, just like the Rosewill.

 

I'm gonna give it a try and give feedback ASAP.

 

Zooplaboom

[Gatorfreak]

[edit]

Sorry, this was already brought up on page 2 of this thread (post #35 for those looking for it).

[/edit]

 

BIOS update clarification?

 

My board is D975XBX2 and it has a bios version that begins with "BX97520J.86A". The version that the guide says to install is for the D975XBX board and bios version that begins with "BX97510J.86A". Should I still install the 10J version or should I install the latest 20J version?