snow leopard on old P4 2.4 GHz...ich5/gfx6200agp/ide drives onboard:sound/nic all working
MB: ECS848P-A v2.0 Socket 478, Intel® 848P & ICH5, Sound Realtek ALC655, NIC Realtek RTL8100C
Manufactures Site:
http://is.gd/4Fm1j
GPU: MSI 6200 128MB 350Mhz NX6200AX-TD128LF nVidia GeForce AGP 8X DVI, VGA, HDTV
Manufacture Site:
http://is.gd/4Fl4O Vendor Site:
http://is.gd/4FlqC
Video is fully working, but only from the VGA port. I tried many enablers, EFI strings and finally stumbled on
Netkas's ATY_Init.kext. There seems to be a few versions of this kext. So I uploaded the working one here:
http://is.gd/4FmT7
I am not sure if my other video kexts are unique or special, so if the enabler fails on your system I have uploaded my
NVx and GeFx kexts here:
http://is.gd/4Fnby.
Remember to backup your extensions and properly install any kexts you might try.
I found that improperly installed kexts will result in a KP. My solution was to log into a working leopard partition
and repair permissions and rebuild Extensions.mkext, then the system would successfully boot.
Conti's site has a great guide on installing kexts. I manually used the commands listed here:
http://is.gd/4FpHk
Funny thing about this system...I had read PATA and AGP won't work on SL...
seems it does...takes some plist id editing for the PATA.. sound needed a audio package and a 8139 package for the NIC.
This P4 requires the legacy kernel from prasys site. Other then that this system works pretty well...plays DVDs...
could use more memory as it only has one gig...
This is the 4th system of mine that is successfully running SL
and the lest likely to have succeeded.
Good Luck to all you AGPers...there is hope for your antique!
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