- Joined
- Jul 30, 2012
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- Motherboard
- intel s5520sc
- CPU
- 2x E5430
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Confirmed working on my HP XW8600. I'm using the stock video card when I purchased this computer from geeks.com which is the Nvidia Quadro FX 1700. Sound I had to patch with Universal VoodooHDA Driver, I would say go for the most up to date version. Video worked out the box, no fancy kexts added. I get full screen resolution not that stock 1024 x 768 resolution. For the network, I added a PCI NIC card from Trendnet (Realtech chipset made the difference and worked out the box for me) which is a gigabit Ethernet card since the on board Broadcom NetExtreme Gigabit NICs don't work. I was throwing at this machine all the Broadcom NetExtreme Gigabit kexts available to no available. So this morning I reinstalled Mountain Lion from scratch and had to repair the disk permissions to get the Ethernet to work so I can download apps from the App store.
I'm debating whether or not to change the video card out and maybe getting a PCIe network card. I'll think about it. I'm very pleased with this setup and I would like to extend my greatest appreciation to all the team members of Tonymac for developing this great product! Keep doing what you doing. I'm glad I made the switch from the EFI-X USB dongle. Okay here's what I had to do to get this installed on this machine so here goes:
BIOS: Make sure you have your IDE SATA configuration set to Separate IDE controller, very important! Onboard Audio enabled if you use a video card that has HDMI audio throughput. You can adjust your settings as needed, those settings that I mentioned have to be set otherwise you'll spend hours and days trying to get your system to boot.
Unibeast and Installation: You can use the guide that Tonymac provides as guidance, when you get to the part to where you can check the box for legacy or laptop, do not check any of those radio buttons otherwise your apple boot screen will be stuck. Install the Mac OS like you normally would do.
Post Installation: Download the latest multibeast from this site, which should be 5.2.0, install using Easy DSDT install. Repair disk permissions and you should be able to shut down and restart. I haven't test sleep yet.
Maybe this would help someone get their HP XW8600 up and running, just keep an extra NIC card just in case.
I'm debating whether or not to change the video card out and maybe getting a PCIe network card. I'll think about it. I'm very pleased with this setup and I would like to extend my greatest appreciation to all the team members of Tonymac for developing this great product! Keep doing what you doing. I'm glad I made the switch from the EFI-X USB dongle. Okay here's what I had to do to get this installed on this machine so here goes:
BIOS: Make sure you have your IDE SATA configuration set to Separate IDE controller, very important! Onboard Audio enabled if you use a video card that has HDMI audio throughput. You can adjust your settings as needed, those settings that I mentioned have to be set otherwise you'll spend hours and days trying to get your system to boot.
Unibeast and Installation: You can use the guide that Tonymac provides as guidance, when you get to the part to where you can check the box for legacy or laptop, do not check any of those radio buttons otherwise your apple boot screen will be stuck. Install the Mac OS like you normally would do.
Post Installation: Download the latest multibeast from this site, which should be 5.2.0, install using Easy DSDT install. Repair disk permissions and you should be able to shut down and restart. I haven't test sleep yet.
Maybe this would help someone get their HP XW8600 up and running, just keep an extra NIC card just in case.